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    LifeArc announces seed fund investment in start-up GyreOx

    The funding will support a two-year programme to develop and automate GyreOx’s proprietary drug discovery platform, MACRO.

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    LifeArc boosts investment in Cambridge University spin-out PolyProx Therapeutics to advance new class of cancer medicines

    The investment will help advance studies to validate polyproxin® molecules as potential drug candidates across a range of cancers.

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    LifeArc and Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office launch new funding scheme to boost translational research in Scotland

    Funding aims to progress strong discovery science to a point where additional substantive funding could be secured.

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    LifeArc marks Rare Disease Day 2020 with a call for more translational research

    Translational research can turn promising science into new treatments for those with rare diseases. It’s why we need more of…

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    Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

    LifeArc celebrates the UN’s International day of Women and Girls in Science, joining the call to remove any barriers that…

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    LifeArc and Action Medical Research launch funding call for research into rare diseases in children

    £1m for translational research projects focussed on children’s rare diseases

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    LifeArc appoints new Chief Investment Officer (CIO)

    Graham Duce appointed to the newly created role of CIO to ensure that we have a sustainable approach to income…

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    Celebrating the successes of UK translation – our 2019 annual reception

    Melanie Lee, LifeArc CEO acknowledges the success of the life sciences and translational research sectors in the UK

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    Patients with ultra-rare bone marrow disease set to benefit from £1.15m grant from LifeArc and The Aplastic Anaemia Trust

    A research grant to investigate the potential of a novel type of “personalised cellular therapy” to reverse the ultra-rare condition,…

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    LifeArc Seed Fund makes £1.5million investment in Caldan Therapeutics to develop novel treatments for metabolic diseases

    Investment to allow Caldan to translate work on free fatty acid receptors initiated in their laboratories

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    Kymab and LifeArc enter strategic partnership to discover new medicines using Kymab’s IntelliSelect® technologies

    The agreement will enable LifeArc to enhance our antibody drug discovery capabilities

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    LifeArc invests £1.5 million in Ducentis BioTherapeutics

    LifeArc’s Seed Fund has invested £1.5 million in Ducentis BioTherapeutics to develop novel drug therapies for inflammatory and autoimmune disease

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