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LAB ROUNDUP 29 August: Three major grants, new uni chair, collaborations and research honours
Added: 26 Aug 2023
Scientist, pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist Professor Raymond F. Schinazi has donated…

Hurry before deadline falls for 2023 Lab Awards’ 13 categories!
Added: 25 Jul 2023
You have just three days to make the deadline for nominations for the expanded, 13 category 2023 La…

LAB ROUNDUP 24 July – donations, collaborations, partnerships and appointments
Added: 23 Jul 2023
Bangladeshi entrepreneur Safwan Sobhan has donated £1 million to Imperial College London's National…

LAB ROUNDUP 5 July – groundbreaking research claims, Germany eyes South Africa market, Saudi players combine...
Added: 5 Jul 2023
Biotech company BiologIC Technologies, claims it has achieved a ground-breaking advance in biocompu…

LAB ROUNDUP 22 June – China/Japan deals, UK purchases, relocation, appointments and more
Added: 22 Jun 2023
Independent custom-made peptide and antibody tools producer Cambridge Research Biochemicals Limited…

LAB ROUNDUP 4 June – Cancer ‘breakthroughs’, EU Horizon + supercomputer funding, Northern moves, biomed labs honoured and more…
Added: 4 Jun 2023
The NHS has said a University of Oxford led study into the effectiveness of the Galleri blood test,…

LAB ROUNDUP 22 May – data conversion, DNA synthesis, BBB, preeclampsia testing and more
Added: 21 May 2023
Biotech industry R&D Cloud Benchling called for standardised instrument data conversion in the scie…

LAB ROUNDUP 16 May – A major rebrand, spin-out funding, grant win, skills gap initiative and more...
Added: 16 May 2023
Perkin Elmer’s life science and diagnostic arm has formed a new, standalone business rebranded as R…

Medicines Discovery Catapult celebrates five years of achievement
Added: 8 May 2023
National innovation centre for drug discovery the Medicines Discovery Catapult is marking the fifth…

LAB ROUNDUP 7 May – awards, partnerships, appointments and acquisitions
Added: 7 May 2023
The PCCP Emerging Investigator Award for emerging scientists working in physical chemistry, chemica…

Cranfield’s high tech tribute marks Coronation Day
Added: 6 May 2023
Manufacturing specialists at Cranfield University have created miniature golden royal monogram symb…

Lab roundup 1 May - Discovery Park, UK Space Agency, Leica, MiNA Therapeutics, Horiba, Tecan and more
Added: 28 Apr 2023
Discovery Park has appointed Birkbeck (University of London) Bio-business programme director and en…

LAB ROUNDUP 24 April – EU compliance, King's Award, multimillion pound grants and collaborations
Added: 23 Apr 2023
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences states it has achieved an industry first, by providing more than 270 …

#CHEMUK 2023: CIA innovation chief to outline impact of Industry 4.0 on lab transformation
Added: 21 Apr 2023
Chemical Industries Association Head of Events and Innovation Mike Lancaster has been revealed as o…

Lab roundup for 17 April – major investments, top vacancies, partnerships, appointments
Added: 15 Apr 2023
Discovery Park Ventures early stage life sciences fund has invested a quarter of a million pounds i…

LAB ROUNDUP 3 April: International partnerships, NHS trials, oncology, market penetration...
Added: 2 Apr 2023
Industry leaders from Liverpool City Region and the Invest Liverpool City Region team at Growth Pla…

LAB ROUNDUP 27 March: Virology, automation, anniversaries, lab builds, awards, product innovation
Added: 26 Mar 2023
Edinburgh-based engineering biology pioneer Ingenza, celebrates its 20thanniversary with an event o…

Lab roundup: collaborations, international partnerships, therapy testing, appointments, certification, sustainability
Added: 19 Mar 2023
Global biopharmaceutical UCB has launched an early drug discovery collaboration with causal AI and …

Lab roundup: ValiRx., Fujitsu. Cherwell. OBN, Atmonia, Uniogen, EU
Added: 10 Mar 2023
ViroCell Biologics has appointed former Oxford Biomedica (OXB) CEO John A. Dawson as Chairman of it…

Lab roundup: Oxford Nanopore, Protas, CN Bio, Genomics England, Antiverse and more…
Added: 1 Mar 2023
Clinical stage biopharmaceutical company Aurum Biosciences has been awarded an Innovation Passport …