🇬🇧 UK Biotech News - Latest Headlines
Verona Biotech, the London-based biotech company behind a breakthrough treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...Continue Reading
July 7, 2025
Cambridge-based biotech firm has entered into a new partnership with a specialist venture fund to explore treatments for paralysis using artificial intelligence.Healx, which uses machine learning to discover ...Continue Reading
June 30, 2025
London-based life sciences startup, Portal Biotech has secured £27.5 million ($35 million) in Series A funding, led by the NATO Innovation Fund and London-based Hoxton Ventures. The company ...Continue Reading
June 25, 2025
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new lung cancer treatment developed by AstraZeneca, the British–Swedish pharmaceutical group headquartered in Cambridge, and its Japanese partner ...Continue Reading
June 25, 2025
Cambridge-based startup OutSee has secured £1.8 million in seed funding to accelerate its use of artificial intelligence in genomics for drug discovery.The funding round was led by Ahren ...Continue Reading
June 24, 2025
The UK has launched a major open-science initiative, OpenBind, aimed at supporting the development of artificial intelligence in drug discovery. Based at the Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, ...Continue Reading
June 24, 2025
German biotech company BioNTech has confirmed a plan to invest up to £1 billion in the UK over the next decade, significantly expanding its R&D footprint with government ...Continue Reading
June 21, 2025
📍Cardiff - Draig Therapeutics has launched from stealth after raising $140 million (£107 million) in a Series A round. The Wales-based startup, spun out of Cardiff University’s Medicines ...Continue Reading
June 17, 2025
University of Exeter biotech spin-out is taking a bold step into the global longevity landscape. SENISCA, which emerged from nearly two decades of academic research at Exeter, will ...Continue Reading
June 10, 2025
The UK government has committed £86 billion to research and development over the next four years, with life sciences identified as a strategic priority. The funding, which averages ...Continue Reading
June 1, 2025
Regional leaders in Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region are working together to propose a new initiative aimed at improving the UK’s biotech and life sciences infrastructure. Central ...Continue Reading
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