Midlands Business News

BioCity Nottingham has completed a major refurbishment of office suites and central communal areas worth in excess of £450,000.

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Nottinghamshire’s Life Sciences expertise gained more recognition this week as three of the county’s companies were shortlisted for the industry’s premier business awards.

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Several BioCity Nottingham-based firms had the opportunity to meet Business Secretary Dr Vince Cable on Monday this week when he paid a fact-finding visit to the busy centre for life science companies.

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A Shropshire pharmacy is urging people to make sure they keep their health in check during National Heart Month.

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Just four weeks since the launch of the Cup of Kindness Christmas Appeal, Emmanuel House has received £28,000 towards its target of £40,000.

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An optimistic picture of the UK life sciences sector emerges from today’s publication of the annual UK Life Sciences start-up report.

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Widely regarded as Europe’s busiest bio science business incubator, BioCity Nottingham is ten years old this November.

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An Oswestry pharmacist has launched a new delivery service in a bid to prevent pensioners putting themselves at risk of injury by collecting their medicines during the winter months.

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BerGenBio, an emerging oncology biopharma, today announced the signing of a contract with Sygnature Discovery, Nottingham, UK, for the pre-clinical development of a small molecule inhibitor against a novel target that mediates highly aggressive drug-resistant tumours. This represents a further strengthening of the company’s pipeline with Phase I trials of lead candidate BGB324, a first-in-class [...]

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Sygnature Discovery Limited, a leading provider of integrated drug discovery services to the pharmaceutical industry, today announced the appointment of Colin Sambrook Smith

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Leicestershire pharmaceutical company, Pepceuticals, has appointed a new Head of Sales to spearhead business growth on the back of recent approval by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) for the manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) at its Enderby site.

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Quotient Clinical, a business unit of Quotient Bioresearch (“Quotient”), today announced the completion of a major expansion of its clinical facilities in Nottingham, UK. Bed capacity has been increased by 50 per cent and a dedicated sample processing laboratory for human ADME studies has been incorporated. The new facilities have been inspected and approved for use by the UK regulatory authority, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), and have been awarded Supplementary Accreditation.

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Lloydspharmacy, which has its head office at Walsgrave, Coventry, has made a significant donation to the Jimmy Hill statue fund, taking Coventry City Football Club a step closer to its fund-raising target.

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Prime Minister David Cameron has announced the launch of ‘Start up Britain’ – a campaign aimed at helping new entrepreneurs. And, here in Nottingham, BioCity is set to help twenty seven of them carve an entrepreneurial career in the exciting world of bioscience.

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The future of a unique science learning project for primary pupils at a Nottinghamshire school is secure thanks to a sponsorship pledge by four leading bioscience businesses.

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There are vast, untapped opportunities to start up and develop life science companies across the UK according to a new report, UK Life Science Start-up Report 2010 published on Wednesday 22nd September by Mobius Life Sciences Fund and BioCity Nottingham. The report helps to identify these opportunities and calls for any public investment to be better targeted at four UK ‘hot spots’. It also highlights opportunities for investors in the sector across the UK.

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