Medical research

Three-month start-up support programme looking for a new crop of companies in Germany and Kenya

The world needs a global plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance. Alongside a $2B fund to jump-start innovation there should be a $1B reward for companies when a new antibiotic is launched, says Jim O’Neill, chair of the review

A new study find that every pound invested in medical research over the last 30 years generated an equivalent investment from the pharma industry

A new study presented in the journal Nature could change the view of the role of motor neurons

GSK, the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust today announce their Strategic Partnership, with the long-term ambition to jointly deliver new medicine to patients in the next 5-10 years

University contributes to scientific breakthrough for cancer patients

An improved gene therapy treatment can cure mice with cystic fibrosis (CF). Cell cultures from CF patients, too, respond well to the treatment. Those are the encouraging results of a study presented by the KU Leuven Laboratory for Molecular Virology and Gene Therapy.

The London Project to Cure Blindness reported completion of the first procedure to implant a patch seeded with retinal cells derived from an embryo. The treatment is for macular degeneration, a leading cause of vision loss

Patients to benefit from new £3M Blood and Transplant Research Unit University of Warwick research used to develop world-leading unit

The aim of the project is to develop an instrument combining magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG).