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Risk worth taking as AstraZeneca starts making COVID-19 vaccine
Backed by a newly escalated global coalition, Cambridge Big Biotech AstraZeneca is starting production of the Oxford University ahead of trial... Read More
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Broadcom flushed by Q2 success
Broadcom Inc., which has major operations at Cambridge Science Park, hoisted revenues by four per cent to $5.742 billion in the second quarter of... Read More
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From sheep shed to Golden Fleece as Cambridge leads UK life science surge
Life science pioneer, Sir Christopher Evans – founding father of Cambridge’s biotechnology cluster around 35 years ago – well recalls the threadbare... Read More
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du respect: Bango strikes oil with UEA deal
Mobile payment technology business Bango has bridged a lucrative Gulf by enabling du – a leading UAE mobile operator – to grow its active carrier... Read More
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FFI launches crisis fund with $1m from Arcadia
Fauna & Flora International in Cambridge has launched the first crisis fund in response to the coronavirus pandemic – a $1 million venture to... Read More
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Former CEO returns to Domainex as chair
Following the retirement of Tony Brampton, Eddy Littler has been appointed as non-executive chairman of drug discovery services CRO, Domainex Ltd.... Read More
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Acacia boosts coffers with €25 million debt for equity move
Cambridge biopharma business Acacia Pharma Group has executed a €25 million debt for equity swap with Cosmo. Acacia Pharma is focused on... Read More
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Alchemab: One for the future and another first for Cambridge
A novel Cambridge UK life science startup – Alchemab Therapeutics – looks set for global glory by identifying and harnessing the power of naturally... Read More
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Marshall ADG wins £multi-million Austrian military contract
Marshall ADG in Cambridge has won a new multimillion pound contract with the Austrian Air Force. Following on from a night vision system upgrade... Read More
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Avacta raising £45m to fast-track growth
Avacta Group plc in Cambridge is planning to rapidly accelerate its cancer therapies technology through a proposed £45 million fundraising. It... Read More
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Riverlane and Astex form quantum chemistry alliance
Quantum computing software specialist Riverlane is collaborating with Cambridge neighbour and world-leading fragment-based drug discovery company... Read More
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Nanna Therapeutics sale to Astellas Pharma could haul in up to £69.5m
MedTech ‘Merlin’ David Williams has worked his magic again with a second deal worth multimillions inside two years in the Cambridge life science... Read More
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Robotic Ramsay cooks up an omelette in tasty egg-speriment
An omelette-making robot chef invented in Cambridge really is all it is cracked up to be. Cambridge University researchers collaborated with Science... Read More
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Canadian firm awarded fibre rollout deal
CityFibre, the UK’s third national digital infrastructure platform, has awarded Canadian business Lite Access Technologies a city-wide build contract... Read More
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Amber Rudd joins Darktrace advisory board
Cambridge unicorn Darktrace, world leader in cyber security technology, has pulled off something of a coup by persuading former Home Secretary Amber... Read More
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US defence chiefs ask East of England trio to help improve chip security
Three businesses with East of England operations are helping US defence chiefs eradicate weaknesses in digital integrated circuit chips. Cambridge... Read More
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Flusso raises $5.7m to disrupt $8bn market
Flusso, a Cambridge University spin-out, has raised a $5.7 million Series A round to scale production of the world’s smallest flow sensor in an $8... Read More
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AI helps detect COVID-19 in X-rays thanks to Cranfield cohort
Students at Cranfield University have designed computer models that can identify COVID-19 in X-rays. The models use computer vision and artificial... Read More
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Over £1m in new contracts for brain health innovator
Cambridge Cognition, which develops and markets digital solutions to assess brain health, has won several new contracts to support pharmaceutical... Read More
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Europe honours Cambridge brain cancer pioneer
A clinician scientist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge has won an international award for bleeding-edge laboratory work that could help... Read More