General Archive

  • Melanie Lee, LifeArc CEO
    News releases

    LifeArc responds to the Government’s Spring Budget

    LifeArc CEO Dr Melanie Lee responds to today’s Spring Budget.

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  • International Women's Day social media card
    Articles & blogs

    International Women’s Day 2023

    Tips on career advancement, from some of LifeArc’s incredible women

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  • News releases

    The Aisling Burnand Daphne Jackson Research Fellowship, sponsored by LifeArc

    The Board at LifeArc announces today it is sponsoring five Daphne Jackson Fellowships.

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  • Aisling Burnand, who was a LifeArc trustee
    Articles & blogs

    Honouring the contribution of a remarkable trustee – Aisling Burnand CBE

    Melanie Lee pays tribute to Aisling Burnand and her immense contribution to the life sciences sector.

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  • The Edwards family, left-to-right, father, two children, mother
    Articles & blogs

    Rare Disease Day 2023 – Robbie’s story

    Robbie has a rare genetic neurodegenerative disease known as AP-4 Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (AP-4 HSP) subtype SPG47.

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  • Rare Disease Day graphic
    Articles & blogs

    Four ways we support rare disease research

    LifeArc provides a range of advice, funding and science to help scientists turn promising research into potential treatments.

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  • Two young females wearing casual clothing and backpacks walk towards the doors of a large modern building.
    Articles & blogs

    LifeArc awards £3 million to advance promising early rare disease research from the lab to the patient

    Pump-prime funding to help researchers get innovative approaches off the ground

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  • Ventures funding, News releases

    LifeArc Ventures invests in Maxion Therapeutics

    Investment in Maxion Therapeutics to drive antibody development for previously untreatable ion channel and GPCR-driven diseases

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  • Scientists at LifeArc
    Articles & blogs

    Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

    LifeArc celebrates this year’s UN Day for Women and Girls in STEM.

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  • LifeArc Stevenage top floor
    Ventures funding, News releases

    LifeArc Ventures – strong performance in 2022 & sustained investment in innovation

    LifeArc Ventures, which is committed to investing in innovative early-stage life science companies, provides an update on its portfolio.

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  • Physiotherapist assisting a patient with MND.
    News releases

    £1 million awarded to develop cutting-edge therapies for motor neuron disease

    London, 24 January 2023: Medical research charity LifeArc, the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MND Association) and the My Name’5 Doddie…

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  • Doctor holding a syringe with a single bottle vial of Covid-19
    News releases

    LifeArc portfolio company RQ Bio’s antibody enters clinical trials

    The first of RQ Bio’s discovered monoclonal antibodies to prevent COVID-19 in vulnerable patients has entered clinical trials.

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