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Catapulting growth in 2023 and beyond
In the face of many challenges – changing customer desires, cost pressures, supply chain disruption, expected regulatory changes and fierce competition – UK innovation is on the rise. This article showcases how Catapults helped to deliver great results for business and industry in 2023; it summarises our predictions for technology-driven advances in 2024 and the years ahead.
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Global AMR Challenge Receives a £5m Boost to Drive Diagnostics Innovation
PACE (Pathways to Antimicrobial Clinical Efficacy) has today launched its second funding round with up to £5 million available to support cutting-edge diagnostic projects. This funding is part of a broader £30 million investment to address the global challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
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Global AMR Challenge Receives a £5m Boost to Drive Diagnostics Innovation
PACE (Pathways to Antimicrobial Clinical Efficacy) has today launched its second funding round with up to £5 million available to support cutting-edge diagnostic projects. This funding is part of a broader £30 million investment to address the global challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
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Patient and Ministers Unveil NPIP’s First Total-Body PET Scanner as London Site Becomes Operational
Patients are starting to benefit from one of the UK’s first total-body PET scanners, brought to St Thomas’ Hospital in London by the National PET Imaging Platform (NPIP). Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Rt Hon Peter Kyle MP, and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP, unveiled the scanner on 27 November, praising the cutting-edge technology and its potential to unlock medical breakthroughs.
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CF AMR Syndicate Announces First Awardees of £3m Collaborative Drug Discovery Programme
The Cystic Fibrosis Antimicrobial Resistance (CF AMR) Syndicate has today announced the first cohort of awardees of its Collaborative Discovery Programme (CDP) funding. The £3 million programme, funded by LifeArc, will support six early-stage novel antimicrobial projects over two years to accelerate new treatments for lung infections in people with CF.
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