To meet its aspiration of becoming a life sciences superpower, the UK must not only discover and develop new medicines – it must also be able to manufacture them at scale,
UK life sciences investor Syncona is bankrolling a new gene therapy company, Beacon Therapeutics, that emerged this morning with a pipeline headed by a therapy acquired fr
Further evidence of big pharma’s return to M&A dealmaking in 2023 has come this morning from Novartis, which has just agreed a takeover of rival Chinook Therapeutics f
The FDA has started a priority review of Vertex Pharma and CRISPR Therapeutics’ exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel) in sickle cell disease (SCD), with a decision on approva
UK start-up Quell Therapeutics has secured a partnership with AstraZeneca focused on cell therapies for autoimmune diseases, with an $85 million upfront payment and which