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Our latest press releases, media appearances and topical commentary.





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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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30 April 2020
Medicines Discovery Catapult welcomes new Board Members

This week the Medicines Discovery Catapult has welcomed three new Board Members.


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27 April 2020
Supporting the race for treatments new collaboration launched to drive understanding of COVID-19

Medicines Discovery Catapult, Retrogenix and Peak Proteins collaborate to identify target receptors for COVID-19.


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22 April 2020
Supporting the raceBritain’s biggest network of diagnostic labs are completed in 5 weeksfor treatments new collaboration launched to drive understanding of COVID-19

Sites in Milton Keynes, Glasgow and Alderley Park in Cheshire are now live and are already testing thousands of patient samples for coronavirus (COVID-19) each day.


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20 April 2020
Testing capacity increases as second Lighthouse Lab becomes fully operational

The second mega-lab at Alderley Park in Cheshire has begun to test thousands of patient samples a day for coronavirus.


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02 April 2020
Medicines Discovery Catapult, at Alderley Park, in partnership with industry and academia, advancing COVID-19 testing capacity

The Government announced the establishment of large scale national COVID-19 hub laboratories across the UK.


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16 March 2020
Boehringer Ingelheim Office Hours dedicated to Hearing Loss: supporting entrepreneurial research on hearing therapeutics

The Hearing Medicines Discovery Syndicate and Boehringer Ingelheim today announced a Boehringer Ingelheim Office Hours dedicated to Hearing Loss.


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12 March 2020
Medicines Discovery Catapult celebrate British Science Week by bringing junior and senior scientists together

To celebrate British Science Week, Medicines Discovery Catapult have brought their most experienced scientists together with their newest scientists to talk about their motivations to get into drug discovery, as well as the future of the field.






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