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US and UK partnership to fund the fight against superbugs
March 31, 2017Medical Communications, Research and Development CARB-X, Wellcome Trust
The cross-Atlantic partnership CARB-X, Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator, has announced that it would be funding 11 biotech companies …
New drugs to utilise DNA damage response to kill cancer cells
July 26, 2016Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Cancer, Wellcome Trust, chemotherapy, dna damage response, university of sussex
The University of Sussex is set to produce a portfolio of new cancer drugs which exploit our DNA damage response …
AstraZeneca to sequence genomes to develop new drugs
April 22, 2016Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Finland, Wellcome Trust, collaboration, genome, genomics, human longevity, institute for molecular medicine, sanger institute
AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN) has announced an integrated genomics initiative that aims to transform the drug discovery and development across is …
GSK launches Ebola Phase III trial in Liberia
January 23, 2015Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Ebola, GSK, US National Institutes of Health, WHO, Wellcome Trust, liberia, newlink
A shipment of GSK’s potential vaccine against the Ebola virus disease is on its way to Liberia ready to be …
UK government and partners pay £230m for disease research
October 23, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Arthritis Research UK, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, London, MRC, Osborne, UK, Wellcome Trust, dementia, research
A new partnership led by the Medical Research Council and the UK government will invest over £230 million in a …
Science left behind in Pfizer-AstraZeneca saga
May 18, 2014Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, MPs, Pfizer, Wellcome Trust, science
With all the posturing, debates and endless comment on the commercial aspects of a $106 billion deal between Pfizer and …
AZ ‘consulted first’ by UK government after Pfizer bid
May 12, 2014Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, George Osborne, Pfizer, Wellcome Trust, david cameron
UK prime minister David Cameron has rejected claims that his government is prioritising discussions with Pfizer over its proposed acquisition …
Wellcome Trust makes $100m from Twitter shares
December 20, 2013Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Francis Crick Institute, Twitter, University College London, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust has walked away with a profit of more than $100 million from a previously undisclosed investment in …
Cambridge University gains stem cell centre funding
August 9, 2012Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cambridge, MRC, Wellcome Trust, stem cell
The Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council are investing £8 million into a new stem cell research centre. The …
Wellcome Trust appoints UK chief scientific adviser
July 3, 2012Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing UK government, Wellcome Trust
The director of the Wellcome Trust since 2003 Sir Mark Walport has been appointed to succeed Sir John Beddington as …
British biotech industry gains £200m boost
March 21, 2012Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GSK, Wellcome Trust, biotech, fund
The Wellcome Trust is to launch a £200 million business that will invest in emerging healthcare and life sciences firms. …
Call to share public health research more openly
January 12, 2011Research and Development Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, data sharing, public health
The only way that pressing needs in global public health can be met is for research to be shared more …
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