BIA campaigns to improve access to new medicines in the NHS. While it is important that the UK has a supportive environment for bioscience companies, the ultimate aim is for patients to have access to life-saving or life-enhancing new medicines..
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Cell and gene therapies are a transformative new category of medicines whose full potential is only just beginning to emerge. Standard, small-molecule treatments are produced in a standardised fashion, and most are relatively short-lived within the body.
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is when microbes, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi, change over time and no longer respond to medicines designed to kill them.
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Animal research plays an invaluable and legally mandated part in developing medicines. It is essential - and a legal obligation – for researchers to ensure that promising new medicines are tested for safety and efficacy (i.e. having the intended effects) as far as possible before they are tested in humans.
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