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Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:00:00 -0000 EIT Health is calling on the healthcare industry to take bolder approaches to the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease following the Covid-19 pandemic. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/digital-health-in-pharma-news/eit-health-calls-on-digital-solutions-to-treat-alzheimer-s/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/digital-health-in-pharma-news/eit-health-calls-on-digital-solutions-to-treat-alzheimer-s/ Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:00:00 -0000 Alzheimers.png Biotechnology company Roche will work with Birmingham Health Partners (BHP) on an £850,000 collaboration to improve the diagnose and care of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/latest-pharmaceutial-news/roche-and-bhp-collaborate-to-improve-care-for-IBD/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/latest-pharmaceutial-news/roche-and-bhp-collaborate-to-improve-care-for-IBD/ Mon, 23 Aug 2021 08:30:00 -0000 IBD.png The UK’s Department for International Trade (DIT) is to promote Greater Manchester and Cheshire & Warrington to international investors looking to design, develop, test, and commercialise new diagnostics and interventions for healthy ageing. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/latest-pharmaceutial-news/North-west-wins-bid-from-department-of-international-trade-to-promote-healthy-ageing/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/latest-pharmaceutial-news/North-west-wins-bid-from-department-of-international-trade-to-promote-healthy-ageing/ Thu, 12 Aug 2021 23:00:00 -0000 Elderly care.png A community pharmacy in Inverness has entered into a partnership with a medtech company to help tackle antibiotic resistance in healthcare. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/antibiotic-developments/scottish-pharmacy-teams-up-with-medtech-company-to-help-redu/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/antibiotic-developments/scottish-pharmacy-teams-up-with-medtech-company-to-help-redu/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 09:55:00 -0000 Antibiotics Roche has announced a partnership with Moderna to use the Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 S antibody test in Moderna’s mRNA-1273 vaccine research trials. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/new-drug-development-approvals-regulatory-news/moderna-to-use-roche-s-covid-19-diagnostic-test-in-vaccine-t/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/new-drug-development-approvals-regulatory-news/moderna-to-use-roche-s-covid-19-diagnostic-test-in-vaccine-t/ Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:05:00 -0000 Clinical Trials The first joint report examining the barriers to diagnostic testing for women has been released by Women in Global Health and The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND). https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/report-released-examining-diagnostic-barriers-for-women/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/report-released-examining-diagnostic-barriers-for-women/ Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:50:00 -0000 Women's Health Aurum Biosciences has raised approximately £670,000 as part of a new round of equity funding to help it advance stroke therapies and diagnostics. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/pharma-finance-and-investment-news/biopharma-raises-670k-to/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/pharma-finance-and-investment-news/biopharma-raises-670k-to/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 08:45:00 -0000 Brain Model The British In-Vitro Diagnostics Association (BIVDA) is calling on the UK government to put support for the UK’s in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry at the centre of the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/government-should-support-uk-diagnostics-in-spending-review-/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/government-should-support-uk-diagnostics-in-spending-review-/ Thu, 17 Sep 2020 10:38:49 -0000 Diagnostics Roche Diagnostics UK & Ireland is part of three consortia that have each won government funding to take forward projects aimed to revolutionise patient care and improve early diagnosis in key disease areas including cancer, thoracic and liver disease https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/roche-aims-to-improve-diagnosis-for/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/roche-aims-to-improve-diagnosis-for/ Tue, 07 Jul 2020 07:25:00 -0000 Diagnostics Beckman Coulter has announced that its Access SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay is now available in markets accepting the CE mark. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/beckman-coulter/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/beckman-coulter/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:20:00 -0000 Antibodies Public Health England has approved pharma giant Roche’s antibody test to help determine how many people have been infected by Covid-19. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/uk-approves-roche-antibody-test-for-covid-19/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/uk-approves-roche-antibody-test-for-covid-19/ Thu, 14 May 2020 08:20:00 -0000 Public Health England Roche’s antibody test for Covid-19 has been given the CE mark and has been issued Emergency Use Authorisation from the US Food and Drug Administration. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/roche/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/roche/ Mon, 04 May 2020 09:00:00 -0000 Blood Test EIT Health has announced funds of over €6 million in the fight against Covid-19, which will be dedicated to 14 specially selected health innovation projects across Europe. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/eit-health/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/eit-health/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:00:00 -0000 Health funding EPM speaks to Neil Tween, CFO at Owlstone Medical, who tells us why diagnostics still have a vital role to play in healthcare and the lessons he's learned from working in the industry. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharmaceutical-industry-insights/meet-the-maker-neil-tween-owlstone-medical/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharmaceutical-industry-insights/meet-the-maker-neil-tween-owlstone-medical/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 09:30:00 -0000 Meet the maker Intelligent Fingerprinting – developers of a portable fingerprint-based drug screening system – believes the capabilities of its technology and portable instrumentation could lead to the development of a Covid-19 test. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/portable-fingerprint-test-could/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/portable-fingerprint-test-could/ Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:50:00 -0000 Fingerprint A second mega-lab at Alderley Park has started testing thousands of patient samples for Covid-19. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/second-mega-lab-for-covid-19-testing-opens-in-alderley-park/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/second-mega-lab-for-covid-19-testing-opens-in-alderley-park/ Tue, 21 Apr 2020 09:50:00 -0000 Covid-19 Sanofi and Luminostics have signed an agreement to evaluate a collaboration on a self-testing solution for Covid-19, using Luminostics’ technology. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/sanofi-collaboration-aims-to-de/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/sanofi-collaboration-aims-to-de/ Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:45:00 -0000 Covid Vaccine Diagnostics player Mobidiag has received emergency use authorisation in Finland for its Amplidiag Covid-19 molecular diagnostic test for the rapid detection of the virus. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/diagnostics/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/diagnostics/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 07:33:00 -0000 Mask Health secretary Matt Hancock will appeal to the biotech industry to help the UK find an antibody test that works in a bid to tackle COVID-19. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/uk-to-ask-biotech-industry-to/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/uk-to-ask-biotech-industry-to/ Wed, 08 Apr 2020 15:24:20 -0000 Testing Clinical diagnostics company ​Beckman Coulte​r is developing assays to identify IgM and IgG antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/diagnostics-firm-to-develop-assays/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/diagnostics-firm-to-develop-assays/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 09:00:00 -0000 Antibodies UK science accelerator Medicines Discovery Catapult has been made responsible for helping the government accelerate the UK’s testing capacity for Covid-19. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/medicines-d/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/medicines-d/ Mon, 06 Apr 2020 08:40:00 -0000 Alderley Park A team of UK biotech experts from Map Sciences and Cantab Health technology believe they are close to delivering a sophisticated and affordable testing technology that will complement the binary Covid-19 tests currently in use. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/covid-19-test-close-to-comple/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/covid-19-test-close-to-comple/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 10:40:00 -0000 Covid-19 Sense has announced an accelerated programme to launch what it claims is the world’s first instrument-free, point-of-care molecular diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/molecular/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/molecular/ Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:15:55 -0000 Nasal Swab A new point-of-care diagnostic test that can confirm exposure to Covid-19 in just 15 minutes is being rolled out to healthcare providers in the US. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/bd-to-roll-out-point-of-care-test-for-covid-19/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/bd-to-roll-out-point-of-care-test-for-covid-19/ Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:47:08 -0000 Covid-19 A point-of-need diagnostic test is being accelerated through development in the hope of enabling people to test for Covid-19 at home. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/mologic-accelerates-at-home-covid-19-testing-kit/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/mologic-accelerates-at-home-covid-19-testing-kit/ Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:23:10 -0000 Diagnostics Pharma player Roche has announced a range of actions to help combat the Covid-19 pandemic, including the initiation of new clinical trial. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/roche-calls-on-governments-to-help-combat-covid-19/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/roche-calls-on-governments-to-help-combat-covid-19/ Tue, 24 Mar 2020 09:00:00 -0000 Covid 19 The UK government has announced a funding package of £46 million to help life science companies develop a vaccine for the new strain of the coronavirus. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/uk-announces-%C2%A346m-for-coronavirus-vaccine/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/uk-announces-%C2%A346m-for-coronavirus-vaccine/ Fri, 06 Mar 2020 14:50:46 -0000 Coronavirus Life sciences leader Thermo Fisher Scientific will acquire diagnostics company Qiagen in a deal estimated to be worth $11.5 billion. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/thermo-fisher-to-acquire-qiagen-in-11bn-deal/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/thermo-fisher-to-acquire-qiagen-in-11bn-deal/ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 10:23:26 -0000 Acquisition Reece Armstrong A new breath testing device could revolutionise the way we diagnose diseases, including the new strain of coronavirus. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/new-breath-testing-device/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharma-manufacturing-news/new-breath-testing-device/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:20:00 -0000 Lungs Dr Campbell Rogers Dr Campbell Rogers, chief medical officer at HeartFlow discusses how digital technologies can play a role in helping health services identify and treat coronary heart disease. https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharmaceutical-industry-insights/the-digital-decade-revolutionising-chd-diagnosis/ https://www.epmmagazine.com/pharmaceutical-industry-insights/the-digital-decade-revolutionising-chd-diagnosis/ Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:24:39 -0000 Pixel Hearts