Can the UK government kick-start the country’s life science industry?

The British government recently outlined its aim for the UK to become the third “most important” life science economy in the world by 2035, behind only the US and China.  It is part of Labour’s new “Modern Industrial Strategy” which prioritises eight high-growth “frontier industries”, of which life sciences is one.  While coming third behind […]

Weekly roundup: Wins in and out of the clinic

Curve Therapeutics Co-Founder and CSO Professor Ali Tavassoli awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Interdisciplinary Prize Curve Therapeutics proudly announced that Professor Ali Tavassoli, its Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, has been awarded the Interdisciplinary Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry in recognition of his brilliance in research and innovation, and contribution to scientific […]

Hot topic: Midsummer is here – winter is coming

Midsummer is here and it is glorious!   The daylight seems eternal, and it seems these endless days will last forever too.  London is a city of light, with the sun bouncing off ten thousand windows. Is it even the same place as the London of six months ago?  The further north you go, the […]

Weekly roundup: From BIO 2025 to building boards

Rewind Therapeutics strengthens scientific advisory board with leading international neurology experts as it advances its first-in-class remyelination therapy  Rewind Therapeutics, which is developing first-in-class treatments for demyelination-associated diseases, has appointed four internationally recognised innovators in neurology –  Professors Shiv Saidha, Cristina Granziera, David Leppert, and Roberto Furlan – to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). The […]

Hot topic: Should we keep renaming diseases?

Thursday June 12 was Global Fatty Liver Day. But until 2018 it was known as International NASH Day – NASH being short for ‘non-alcoholic steatohepatitis’. The name of the awareness day was changed to increase awareness of all types of fatty liver disease, as NASH is just one type – a more serious type – […]

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