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The Oxford Trust, the charity encouraging the pursuit of science and enterprise, has welcomed five new occupiers during lockdown across its two Oxford innovation centres: The Oxford Centre for Innovation next to Oxford Castle and The Wood Centre for Innovation in Headington’s Global Health & Life Sciences District. In addition, two current occupiers have taken expansion space, bringing the total new space taken during lockdown to 4,000 sq ft.
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Arctoris, the creator of the world’s first fully automated drug discovery platform, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with listed Korean company Syntekabio, Inc. to collaborate on drug discovery efforts. The first project under the agreement sees the two companies work together to assess small molecule therapeutics for COVID-19.
Absolute Antibody Ltd., an industry-leading provider of recombinant antibody products and services, announced the availability of the SeqPack™ Hybridoma Preservation Kit, which streamlines the sample submission process for hybridoma sequencing customers worldwide. The kit saves customers both time and money by eliminating the need to ship hybridoma cells on dry ice.
Norman Disney Young, a global engineering consultancy, is delighted to welcome Rui Dinis to Head the UK Life Sciences Team. Rui has over 20 years working in the Life Sciences sector, successfully developing relationships and opportunities, implementing best practices to ensure compliance and execution of stringent regulatory guidelines in regulated and emerging markets. From startups to long established and leading names in the sector, his proven experience has resulted in significant added value to the clients he worked with.
We are pleased to announce details of the companies that have been shortlisted to the final round of the 12th Annual OBN Awards, the most highly regarded awards event in the life sciences industry.
University spinout company Neuronostics has received funding to develop its BioEP platform, an AI-based system for faster, more accurate diagnosis of epilepsy and to monitor response to treatment with anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs).
OXFORD, UK – 03 September 2020 – Enesi Pharma (“Enesi”), an innovative biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccination products targeting serious diseases, is delighted to announce its partnership with the University of Adelaide to develop a new thermostable, solid dose DNA vaccine for Zika virus to prevent infection of pregnant women and the resultant congenital effects in the unborn child.
Manchester, UK : Yourgene (AIM: YGEN), the international molecular diagnostics group, announced today the launch of IONA® Nx NIPT workflow, the Company’s new innovative non-invasive prenatal test (‘NIPT’). The IONA Nx seeks to offer clinical labs a high performing, flexible, scalable and innovative NIPT service inhouse and is developed to run on the Illumina Nextseq 550 Dx platform for next generation sequencing.
Executive search consultancy, Horton International UK, has announced the appointment of Mark Johnson as Senior Partner of its Oxford-based Global Healthcare arm.
AMSBIO announce new additions and certifications for their market-leading range of clinical grade, chemically defined cryopreservation excipient solutions - STEM-CELLBANKER® and HSC-BANKER®. STEM-CELLBANKER® DMSO Free GMP grade is a new chemically defined freezing solution that does not contain DMSO as an anti-freezing agent. It was developed for customers who prefer not to use DMSO-containing cryopreservation solution due to the intended application of the samples. STEM-CELLBANKER® DMSO Free GMP grade is manufactured in compliance with JPN, EU, US, and PIC/S GMP guidelines.
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