£54m construction project in Loughborough creates flexible facility for a growing CRO

NewsBy sam 16th July 2021

Loughborough’s life sciences hub Charnwood Campus has recommissioned its world-class synthetic and chemistry research facility to the highest standard to cater to the needs of its newest occupier and leading pre-clinical discovery contract research organisation (CRO) Charnwood Molecular, in a £54m construction project. The three-storey, state-of-the-art synthetic and chemistry research facility has been fully modernised…

Partnership will create the next generation of researchers to transform global healthcare

NewsBy sam 15th July 2021

The Universities of Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham have joined forces to launch a partnership that will train the next generation of leading researchers the skills required to transform our understanding and treatment of disease. Funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Advanced Inter-disciplinary Models Doctoral Training Partnership (AIM DTP) will train post-graduate students…

New megalab opens to bolster fight against COVID-19

NewsBy sam 15th July 2021

UK’s first megalab opens in Royal Leamington Spa – one of the centrepieces of UK’s future test and trace infrastructure. Lab will process and sequence thousands of COVID-19 tests a week and play indispensable role in responding to new variants of concern and future disease threats, while creating 1,500 skilled jobs for the area New…

What else can be said about IVDR?

NewsBy Zoe Heather 7th July 2021

With so many IVD firms still to submit, the deadline is now closer than you might realise… I’ve seen lots of articles, in the trade press and IVD forums, about the fast-approaching EU IVDR 2017/746 deadline. So when I was asked to bring my previous IVDR blog up to date, I feared that our IVD…

New BEIS policy paper published ‘Life Sciences Vision’

UncategorisedBy Zoe Heather 7th July 2021

Published on 6 July, ‘Life Sciences Vision’ outlines the government and the life science sector’s plan to create a thriving sector, and tackle the major causes of death and disease over the next decade. The Vision focuses on what Government, the NHS, regulators, companies, medical research charities, academia and philanthropy must do to create the environment…

Double Winners at the Medilink Midlands Business Awards

NewsBy Zoe Heather 5th July 2021

6 life science companies from the West Midlands and 6 from the East Midlands were delighted to be selected as winners at yesterday’s Medilink Midlands Business Awards, which saw over 130 businesspeople from life science companies across the region and beyond come together online to celebrate and reflect on the past year. The awards recognise…