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12 February 2025
New Funding Available to Mental Health Drug Discovery Innovators

Wellcome, in collaboration with MDC’s Psychiatry Consortium, launches funding call to support mental health drug innovators





Scientific Experts Join MDC Board of Directors to further bolster the catapult's mission of reshaping drug discovery for patient benefit.
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30 January 2025
Scientific Experts Join Medicines Discovery Catapult’s Board of Directors

New Board members bring diverse additional life science expertise to MDC


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17 January 2025
MDC Publishes First Year of ESG Progress

Reshaping drug discovery, responsibly


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16 January 2025
Turning Nuclear Waste into Breakthrough Cancer Treatments

Funding awarded by UKRI to explore sustainable manufacturing of new targeted radiotherapy treatments that could improve patient outcomes


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13 January 2025
Medicines Discovery Catapult Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Two Executive Appointments

Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC), a national Life Sciences service dedicated to driving productivity and impact in drug R&D, has strengthened its Executive team with the appointment of a Chief Commercial Officer and its first Managing Director


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28 November 2024
Patient and Ministers Unveil NPIP’s First Total-Body PET Scanner as London Site Becomes Operational

Science and Health Ministers visited the site, accompanied by the first patient to be scanned using the cutting-edge technology, which will help unlock medical breakthroughs


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21 November 2024
CF AMR Syndicate Wins Most Impactful Industry Collaboration of the Year Award

Recognition of the CF AMR Syndicate’s impact this World AMR Awareness Week (18-24 November 2024)


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26 September 2024
Global AMR Challenge Receives a £5m Boost to Drive Diagnostics Innovation

PACE provides funding and support for innovative, high value, high risk, early phase drug discovery and diagnostic projects


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24 September 2024
CF AMR Syndicate Announces First Awardees of £3m Collaborative Drug Discovery Programme

Cross-sector initiative provides funding and support to accelerate new treatments for lung infections in CF


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04 September 2024
New Gene Editing License Agreement Set to Unlock Deeper Drug Discovery Insights

A partnership between ERS Genomics and Medicines Discovery Catapult will use CRISPR gene editing technology to transform the way medicines are developed






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