MDC Connects Archives

Update on therapeutic sector financing by Tim Newton

MDC Senior Market Analyst, Dr Tim Newton provides an update on the therapeutic sector financing. If you attended our ‘UK Life Sciences’ webinar as part of the MDC Connects series, you will have heard Tim’s presentation on decoding therapeutic financing, now at the end of 2024, Tim is back with an update.

MDC Connects 2024 5 of 5 Commercialising your Innovation

Commercialising your Innovation. The final webinar is about commercialising your innovation. Looking at options for commercialisation, in-licencing what does pharma look for? And a case study for successful commercialisation.

MDC Connects 2024 4 of 5 Protecting Intellectual Property

Protecting intellectual property is the title of week four. Identify the novelty, defining IP strategy in a TTO and securing IP.

MDC Connects 2024 3 of 5 Building the Science

Each year, Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) aims to connect the community by running a short series of weekly webinars: “MDC Connects”. We invite experts from the community and within MDC to deliver the sessions. Our goal is to educate, inform, and advise the community on the discovery of medicines. 2024 was an informative series outlining […]

MDC Connects 2024 2 of 5 Securing Funds

2 Securing Funds | Tuesday 20 February

Week two was a talk on securing funding. Here, we covered public funding, private funding and the importance of being ‘pitch-ready’.

MDC Connects 2024 1 of 5 UK Life Sciences – the Future is Bright

Webinar one UK Life Sciences – the Future is Bright; creating a richer national R&D pipeline, the current climate and tackling the challenges together.

MDC Connects: A Guide to Complex Medicines

MDC Connects was a series of weekly webinars which ran in 2021, a guide to Complex Medicines and RNA Therpapeutics. The sessions set out to educate, inform, and advise the community in drug discovery and drug delivery, focusing on recent trends and practice, encapsulating insight from experts in these areas. The sessions were aimed at small […]

Webinar – Complex Medicines: Ready for the Clinic/Scaling up for Success

The medicines industry is in a period of change. While small molecule therapeutics still make up 90% of approved medicines, patient expectations are driving the industry towards targeted, precision treatments, which require a shift towards stratified, complex medicines with more challenging discovery and development needs. MDC Connects 2021: A Guide to Complex Medicines is a […]