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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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02 August 2024
MDC Annual Report Published, For the Year Ended 31 March 2024

MDC maintains its high impact, nationally strategic role in the UK bioscience sector


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14 June 2024
CF AMR Syndicate Achieves Gold Standard from Patient Partnership Index

Syndicate recognised for putting patients at the heart of its work


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10 June 2024
Medicines Discovery Catapult Welcomes University of Liverpool Researcher in Residence for Complex Medicines Study

The investigative study will leverage MDC’s advanced microscopy capabilities


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05 June 2024
Medicines Discovery Catapult and Champions Oncology Partner to Accelerate Radiopharmaceutical Therapeutics Development

The partnership will play a vital role in supporting advances in transformative drug discovery for patient benefit






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