Reshaping drug discovery for patient benefit. Independent, not-for-profit national innovation centre for drug discovery.
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Commercialisation Pathway Simplified with New Regulatory Roadmap for RNA Therapeutics and Vaccines: hubs.li/Q0374SNH0
The Intracellular Drug Delivery Centre, with input from the MHRA, has developed a go-to guide to help innovators navigate the regulatory landscape for RNA therapeutics and vaccines. The guide includes a decision tree for nanotechnology-based medicines by @MHRAgovuk.
With the field of RNA therapeutics evolving rapidly, this roadmap is designed to accelerate innovation and bring new treatments to patients faster.
#DrugDiscovery
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Our latest Mental Health Award aims to validate novel targets for drug discovery for anxiety, depression and psychosis.
💡 Duration: up to two years
💰 Level: up to £700,000 per project
✍️ Applications open: February 2025
🗓 Deadline: 15 April
wellcome.org/grant-funding/s…
ALT Dr Ekta Patel, Partnership Manager, Neuroscience at Medicines Discovery Catapult, says: "This funding call bridges a crucial gap in mental health drug discovery. It enables novel target validation to find innovative treatments and improve patient outcomes."
📢 Funding available to mental health drug discovery innovators!
@wellcometrust, in collaboration with Medicines Discovery Catapult's Psychiatry Consortium, has launched a funding call offering up to £700,000 to support #MentalHealth #DrugInnovators.
The funding call is now open. (1/2)
Key dates 📅:
• Wellcome webinar: 25 February 13:00.
• Preliminary applications must be submitted by: 15 April 2025.
Read the full article: md.catapult.org.uk/news/new_…
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Today marks the 10th anniversary of the International Day of Women & Girls in Science!
To celebrate, we’re taking you behind the scenes on a lab tour 🎥- where our team shares their journeys into the world of science. From early inspirations to groundbreaking work, hear firsthand what a future in science can look like!
Share with a future scientist to inspire the next generation of women in STEM! #WomenInScience #STEM #FutureScientists
We are pleased to share that we have be shortlisted for the Bionow #BusinessSupportAward & #PartnershipAndCollaborationAward. We look forward to the awards dinner on 6 March: hubs.ly/Q035y15Z0
@Bionow
Today, Beverley Isherwood, Strategy Leader for Infectious Diseases, joins other speakers at BioInfect 2025 to discuss her talk 'Keeping PACE with AMR'.
Learn more: hubs.li/Q035m8-00
#BioInfect #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #DrugDiscovery
Register now for this week's @BabrahamUK webinar, MDC Lead Scientist Lorna Fitzpatrick, will be featuring in the session on 'Top tips to make a successful application to Accelerate@Babraham'.
🔗: hubs.li/Q0352LsQ0
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👏 We welcome three new members joining our experienced Board of Directors.
Dr Robin Brown, Chairman of Medicines Discovery Catapult, said:
"We are delighted to welcome Mike, Maddy and John to MDC's Board of Directors. Their decades of scientific experience, deep sector knowled
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🎉 The #BionowAwards shortlist is NOW LIVE! 🎉 Thank you to all who submitted nominations, the standard was incredible! After much deliberation, our judges have shortlisted the nominees in the link below:
bionow.co.uk/news/b679a0ce7e…
Our fabulous finalists are as follows...
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Researching #Neurodegeneration, #Cancer, or #HeartDisease?
Super-resolution microscopy (SRM) can help accelerate #DrugDiscovery in these areas. Speak to us about your research if you want to understand how SRM can benefit your next study. hubs.li/Q0345tbJ0
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From Catapult collaborations, to inspiring the next generation of #STEM engineers, spend a few minutes catching up with the latest developments from the @innovateUK #CatapultNetwork this month 🎥
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Delighted to have our paper published @NMC_Journal sharing an important event bringing together patients, parents & professionals #neuroblastoma #molecularradiotherapy #PPIE
journals.lww.com/nuclearmedi…
Great to work alongside @MarkGaze & colleagues @cclguk @NeuroblastomaUK @SKC_UK
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Our recent PhD Showcase Event was an excellent opportunity to learn more about our current PhD students’ cutting-edge research.
📽️ Find out how we are inspiring the next generation of researchers 👇
@FBMH_UoM @GeneralGeorge @lisa_murray123
🎯 Exploring beyond genetic defects in lung cancers. NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) PhD student Matt Church outlines how their PhD project aims to better understand lung cancers without genetic defects to try to improve their outcome as part of the Cancer Precision Medicine theme.
#Oncology #PrecisionMedicine #PhD #CancerResearch
🔍 PhDs in Focus: Exploring beyond genetic defects in lung cancers
📽️ Hear more about Matt Church’s research and what advice he’d give to those thinking of applying to do a PhD 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=-KGxaaeI…
@TheChristieNHS @MedDiscCat @FBMH_UoM
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Congratulations to @GloxThera! Glox Therapeutics are looking to progress their novel programme aimed at targeting P.aeruginosa infections in Cystic Fibrosis. We’re excited to have them onboard the CDP funding call.
eu1.hubs.ly/H0g07l40
@cftrust | @MedDiscCat | @lifearc1
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💫Supercharge your neuroscience at BNA2025.
⌛️Early bird discounted registration closes on 31st January.
➡️Register today - meetings.bna.org.uk/bna2025/
@The_SBNS @sidb_edinburgh @physoc @BBSRC @theABN_Info @wellcometrust @AlzResearchUK @MedDiscCat @BritPharmSoc @mndassoc – at Seaford, England
🎯 Combining expertise in in vitro cell models, disease biology, analysis technologies and knowledge, we can help you build evidence to support the progression of your therapeutic towards the clinic.
👉 Speak to us: hubs.li/Q031_v_S0
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Turning nuclear waste into more effective cancer treatment: UKNNL & @MedDiscCat secure @UKRI_News funding to explore groundbreaking therapy using Lead-212 from spent nuclear fuel.
This could transform cancer treatment and establish the UK as a global leader in precision nuclear medicine.
More here: lnkd.in/ecDrFnHa
