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28 October 2020
UK SPINE: Healthy ageing programme sets sights on improving quality of life in later years

National UK SPINE initiative created to help us stay healthy in later years.





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27 October 2020
A Beacon of Light for Employment: Alderley Park Lighthouse Lab to generate employment opportunities for North-West life sciences sector

The Alderley Park Lighthouse Lab in Cheshire plays a key role in supporting the government’s drive to increase UK testing capacity.


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06 October 2020
Oncimmune and Medicines Discovery Catapult awarded UK Government funding for development of an Infectious Disease research tool for use in COVID-19

Validated research tool to be used to predict disease severity and individual therapeutic response to COVID-19 in aid of rapid vaccine and drug development.


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06 September 2020
Innovate UK funding for new precision cancer treatment technology

Sixfold Bioscience and Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) awarded Innovate UK grant to pursue ground-breaking project.


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18 August 2020
Medicines Discovery Catapult expands Biosamples supply network to support UK innovators, creating one of the world’s largest virtual biobanks

Today, Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) announce the rapid expansion of its Biosamples supply network, creating one of the largest virtual biobanks worldwide accessible to life science innovators.


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11 August 2020
Medicines Discovery Catapult awarded funding to establish Cheshire & Warrington as an international powerhouse for the creation of new medicines

Medicines Discovery Catapult announce that it has been awarded government seedcorn funding; provided through UK Research and Innovation’s flagship £236m Strength in Places Fund, along with project partner Cheshire & Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).


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07 August 2020
Cheshire East Council welcomes funding for Validation Centre of Excellence at Alderley Park

Cheshire East Council has welcomed the announcement on 4 August 2020, of £15.5 million of the Getting Building Fund for investment in schemes in Cheshire and Warrington.


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13 July 2020
Alderley Park Lighthouse Laboratory processes 1 million samples

The Alderley Park Lighthouse Lab, which was launched to rapidly expand COVID-19 testing capacity, has processed more than 1 million test samples since opening.


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06 May 2020
What makes a drug discovery consortium successful? Our scientists discuss in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Consortia are enabling drug discovery in areas that individual organizations are unable to support alone because of the high risk or the need to pool information.


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05 May 2020
Psychiatry Consortium launches second call for proposals

The Psychiatry Consortium is again seeking project proposals which focus on the validation of novel molecular drug-targets.






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