The United Kingdom (UK) will have a general election on Thursday, 12 December. The UK BioIndustry Association (BIA) has launched a biotech manifesto with its recommendations on how political parties can support the innovative UK life sciences sector.
LBIC announces that its new space in the Apex facility has reached over 50% occupancy just six months after launch, with the addition of Bind Research, its first non-profit tenant, and Twig Bio, a sustainable biotech company.
In the last week, we have been hit by headlines that MSD plans to close its discovery research activities in London and that AstraZeneca is pausing investment due to the UK commercial environment and specifically in response to VPAG outcomes.
NRG Therapeutics, an innovative neuroscience company targeting a novel mechanism to address mitochondrial dysfunction, is delighted to announce the closing of its oversubscribed £50m Series B financing.
In this blog, Paul Nelson, Corporate Foreign Exchange at Moneycorp, outlines the unpredictability of global markets and what this means for BIA members.