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TSB awards £6m for R&D into tumour
profiling for personalised medicine
Six projects are to
receive nearly £6 million from the UK Technology Strategy Board to
research tumour profiling and data capture. 21 June 2011
Avacta and Pall Life Sciences in
analytical services collaboration
Pall will utilise the
services of Avacta and market joint services with a focus in North
America, and in certain other regions globally. 21 June 2011
QMB Innovation Centre signs up iGene
Queen Mary BioEnterprises Innovation Centre has signed up iGene
London, a digital autopsy developer. 21 June 2011
Philips launches Practix 360 mobile X-ray
The new Practix 360 system combines design with new functionality to
provide a straight-to-patient radiography system that can be used
throughout the hospital setting. 21 June 2011
COCIR welcomes exemption of MRI from
the new EC EMF Directive
The European Commission has made a
new proposal for an EMF Directive that excludes MRI technology from
the exposure limit values. 21 June 2011
Wipro Technologies launches
cloud-based portal for clinical trials collaboration
The
Wipro Clinical Collaboration Portal is aimed at helping its customer
base improve collaboration capabilities for multi-region
clinical trials. 21 June 2011
APT and Brunel University to develop
sorting process for carbon nanotubes
The UK Technology
Strategy Board is providing funding to develop a new continuous flow
process for separating and sorting commercially available carbon
nanotubes and carbon nanomaterials. 18 June 2011
Biomedical iNet to showcase new
technologies in South West England
The South West Biomedical
Innovation Network (iNet) is hosting a conference on 23 June 2011 in
Bridgewater, Somerset. 18 June 2011
BioVigilant introduces
next-generation instant biologic detection system
BioVigilant’s IMD-A 300 and IMD-A 350 systems can detect immediately
the presence of bacteria in the drug manufacturing process. 14 June
2011
Revolutionary technique for proteomics
mass spectrometry
ETH Zurich and AB SCIEX are working
together to deliver a new mass spectrometry-based technique for
quantitation on every peptide in a single
proteomics sample analysis. 14 June 2011
Xceleron announces new board and
executive appointments
York-based Xceleron has announced that
Dr David Roblin has been appointed to its Board of Directors in a
non-Executive capacity and Dr Stuart Best has joined the company as
Senior Director Operations. 14 June 2011
Plessey Semiconductors wins award
for novel electric field sensor technology
The EPIC sensor is
a completely new area of sensor technology that measures changes in
an electric field in a similar way to a magnetometer detecting
changes in a magnetic field. 9 June 2011
SPARK Impact expands investment team
for North West Fund for Biomedical
Early stage venture
capital company SPARK Impact, which manages the £25m North West Fund
for Biomedical for parent organisation The North West Fund, has
appointed two new staff to its investment team in Liverpool. 9 June
2011
Sheffield to host event promoting
high-value medtech manufacturing
Organised by Medilink
Yorkshire & Humber, the High Value Manufacturing in Healthcare
event to be held on 29 June, will engage with the UK healthcare
technologies community to look at the issues relating to high-value
added manufacturing. 9 June 2011
Metalic copper effective against new E. coli strains
A new study by the University of Southampton has found a role for
copper and copper alloy surfaces in preventing the spread of similar infections.
3 June 2011
European consortium applies semantic technology to drug discovery
The Open PHACTS consortium is applying semantic
web technology to accelerate drug discovery by providing a single
view across data sources.
3 June 2011
Philips provides imaging systems for new
children’s oncology centre in Moscow
Philips, in partnership
with cancer charity the Grant Life Foundation, is providing imaging
technology to a new Children’s Oncology complex in Moscow, which
opened on the International Children’s Day on 1 June. 3 June 2011
GE launches hospital capacity management
system
GE Healthcare Performance Solutions has introduced
Patient Care Capacity Management (PCCM), a new system aimed at
solving the poor hospital utilization and ineffective capacity
management. 3 June 2011
Genetic test predicts response to
treatment for leukaemia and survival
A genetic test for the
TP53 mutation can be used to identify patients with the most common
type of adult leukaemia who will not respond well to currently
available drugs and should be considered for experimental
treatments. 3 June 2011
Avacta secures second Optim sale in
US
Avacta's marketing partner in the US has secured the
second Optim sale, to one of the ten largest pharmaceutical
companies in the US. 2 June 2011
Capio enhances scientific and
industrial competence with new board members
Swedish company,
Capio, has appointed a new board of directors and management team to
enable further steps in the company’s development. 2 June 2011
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