General Archive

Home » News releases » Page 16
  • News releases

    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.

    Read more

  • News releases

    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.

    Read more

  • Lab research. Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash
    News releases

    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.

    Read more

  • Mother holding baby's finger
    News releases

    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

    Read more

  • LifeArc Stevenage
    News releases

    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…

    Read more

  • News releases

    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

    Read more

  • Normal red-blood cells under the microscope
    News releases

    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,…

    Read more

  • News releases

    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

    Read more

  • News releases

    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

    Read more

  • Basophil, a white blood cell, 3D illustration. Basophils are granulocytes taking part in inflammatory reactions and allergic diseases - Illustration
    News releases

    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

    Read more

  • Melanie Lee, LifeArc CEO
    News releases

    LifeArc monetises Keytruda® royalty interests to fund further research and investment

    LifeArc receives US$1.3bn for a portion of royalty interests in Keytruda (pembrolizumab), making us one of the UK’s leading medical…

    Read more

  • News releases

    Medicines Discovery Catapult and LifeArc launch strategic R&D partnership in biomarker discovery and proteomics technology

    Three-year partnership to fund clinical application of biomarker strategies to help progress novel drug candidates to clinical evaluation stage

    Read more