Life sciences
UK biotech firm Iceni Diagnostics has appointed a new CEO as the company prepares to bring its products to market. Biotechnology entrepreneur, Martin Stocks, helped secure the founding investment in the pioneering glycoscience company seven years ago, and now picks up the reins with immediate effect. Dr Stocks spent a period at Yale University in [...]
Health Tech World recently hosted a roundtable featuring leading experts from across the biomanufacturing sector. The wide-ranging discussion, held in partnership with Invest Tees Valley, covered the challenges and opportunities of UK biomanufacturing and the barriers that must be addressed in fulfilling the sector’s potential. Much of the focus of the discussion was on Tees [...]
HT World reports on the possibilities of continuous viral evolution, in conversation with Dr Benjamin Bartelle of Arizona State University.
A global alliance of life science organisations has set out a new plan to address changing needs in the sector amid a rapid acceleration in digital transformation. The Pistoia Alliance is made up of life science firms, tech and service providers and academic groups working to lower barriers to innovation in life science and healthcare [...]
Robert Hewitt, founder of Biosample Hub, on the forces and challenges conspiring to thwart the progress of biotech and life sciences. It is important to recognise a crisis because only then can one put things right. Once a crisis is recognised, then it can be a powerful accelerator of change. But what does it take to [...]
How vaccines and a critical mass of activity in the Tees Valley are creating new economic and healthcare possibilities.
A new National Training Centre has been opened in the North East of England, which will take advanced therapy and vaccine manufacturing to new heights. Teesside University’s National Horizons Centre is one of three designated training partners which will deliver high impact on-site and digital training as part of the Advanced Therapies Skills Training network [...]
