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Tres Alchemix raises $4.4M in Series A funding to accelerate AI-driven drug discovery

Tres Alchemix, an early-stage biotechnology company applying artificial intelligence (AI) to drug discovery, today announced it has closed a $4.4 million Series A financing. The round was led by DNX Ventures, with participation from existing investor Waseda University Ventures. The funding will accelerate development of Tres Alchemix’s predictive AI platform and support the opening of a new laboratory at The Oxford Science Park, a hub of... Read more

Moa and Nufarm announce next phase for their novel mode of action herbicide

Moa Technology and Nufarm have announced the start of the next phase of their collaboration to bring an exciting novel mode of action agricultural herbicide to the global market, reaching this stage over a year earlier than typical industry timelines. The two companies have together assessed several promising novel mode of action compounds identified by Moa’s GALAXY discovery platform. These have demonstrated strong and consistent efficacy... Read more

EIT’s Dr Lennard Lee secures UK AI supercomputing award for cancer vaccine research

Dr Lennard Lee, Chief Medical Officer of the EIT Clinic at the Ellison Institute of Technology, has been awarded access to the UK’s most powerful AI supercomputer to accelerate cancer vaccine research. The project, “A foundation model for cancer vaccine design”, has been selected by the UK Government’s AI Research Resource (AIRR) programme, led by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and UK Research and Innovation... Read more

Oxford Nanopore launches a comprehensive Hereditary Cancer Panel

Oxford Nanopore Technologies has launched a comprehensive Hereditary Cancer Panel (HCP), which will allow users to interrogate 258 key genes associated with inherited cancer risk. The HCP provides a simple workflow with flexible batch sizes, allowing laboratories to run their own assays in-house, which can speed up time from sample-to-answer. The rich, multi-omic dataset also enables test consolidation, potentially reducing the need to run... Read more

Oxford launches major new AI vaccine research program with the Ellison Institute of Technology

The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), through its strategic partnership with the University of Oxford, has received research funding of £118m to launch an ambitious new programme of vaccine research. Led by the Oxford Vaccine Group, the new initiative based in the University - CoI-AI (Correlates of Immunity-Artificial Intelligence) - will combine Oxford’s expertise in human challenge studies, immune science and vaccine development with... Read more