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Oxford Nanopore Technologies partners with UK Government to roll out LamPORE, a new generation of COVID-19 test

Mon 3rd August 2020 Ground-breaking British technology will initially provide hundreds of thousands of fast, accurate, low-cost COVID-19 tests under new agreement with the UK Government, with the potential to build to millions of tests per month The “LamPORE COVID-19” assay provides precise detection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, using Oxford Nanopore’s DNA/RNA sequencing technology. LamPORE is fully scalable... Read more

Innovate UK grant to further development of OrthoSon ultrasound technology in back pain

Innovate UK grant to further development of ultrasound technology in back pain Data from extended Biomedical Catalyst award to support progression of OrthoSon technology towards first-in-human trial Oxford, UK, July 29 2020 – OrthoSon, an Oxford University spin-out which is developing a novel ultrasound-based treatment for lower back and neck pain, has been awarded a £250,000 extension to its £1.2m Biomedical Catalyst award. The extension,... Read more

OxSonics Therapeutics Raises £10.5m in Oversubscribed Series B2 Equity Financing

Oxford, UK – 1st July 2020 – OxSonics Therapeutics, a world leader in the development of ultrasound-based drug delivery systems for the treatment of cancer today announced that a £10.5m Series B2 financing round had been closed. The financing round consisting of existing and new investors was oversubscribed. The capital will be used to take OxSonics’ innovative SonoTran® platform technology into first-in-human clinical... Read more

Immune cell regulation company MiroBio relocates to The Oxford Science Park

Oxford, UK, 1 July 2020 – The community of innovative companies at The Oxford Science Park, one of the UK’s leading parks for science and technology companies, is being enhanced by the addition of MiroBio, a novel therapeutics company based on insights into the regulation of receptor signalling in immune cells. MiroBio, which launched in October last year with a  £27m Series A round, is taking laboratory and office space at the Park as it... Read more

EVOX THERAPEUTICS ANNOUNCES MULTI-TARGET RNA INTERFERENCE & ANTISENSE RESEARCH COLLABORATION/LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH LILLY

Evox to use its proprietary exosome loading and CNS-targeting technologies to develop oligonucleotide drugs for the treatment of neurological disorders Evox Therapeutics Ltd (‘Evox’ or the ‘Company’), a leading exosome therapeutics company, is pleased to announce a research collaboration and license agreement with Eli Lilly and Company to leverage Evox’s proprietary DeliverEXTM platform to develop and deliver RNA interference... Read more