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  • Pharmacist holding medicine box and capsule pack in pharmacy drugstore.
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    LifeArc launches £40m funding call to create Translational Rare Disease Centres

    Centres to become focal points for rare disease research translation and engagement with the patient community across the UK.

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    £3m fund to accelerate development of new CF therapies

    Collaborative funding to drug discovery innovators to accelerate new treatments for people with cystic fibrosis.

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

    2022 wrapped – our highlights from a pivotal year

    We’ve seen some exciting scientific progress, forged new partnerships and launched some new landmark initiatives.

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  • Woman uses a nebulizer at home.
    News releases

    LifeArc partners with EMBARC to improve healthcare for people living with bronchiectasis

    Three-year partnership to improve healthcare for thousands of people across Europe living with bronchiectasis.

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  • Motor neurons grown from stem cells using complex developmental biology techniques (differentiated these cells from induced pluripotent stem cells/iPSCs (not embryonic stem cells)). In blue is the centre of each cell (the nucleus), and in red is the main structural component of each cell (the cytoskeleton).
    Articles & blogs

    MND Collaborative Partnership cautiously welcomes new Government funding

    We cautiously welcome the Government’s announcement on how their £50m commitment into MND research will be spent.

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  • Person using nebulizer and inhaler for the treatment
    News releases

    LifeArc announces £10m funding call for new chronic respiratory infection therapies

    First major funding call announced as part of our £100m Chronic Respiratory Infection Translational Challenge

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  • Microscopic view of lung tissue with congestion as shown by the red blood cells in the walls of the alveoli. Pneumonia.
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    £100m programme to transform care for people living with chronic lung conditions

    More than 300,000 people in the UK are living with bronchiectasis and more than 10,000 have been diagnosed with cystic…

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  • Sammie Read, who has a chronic respiratory infection, with the at-home monitoring equipment.
    News releases

    LifeArc funds home monitoring trials for people with chronic respiratory conditions

    Trials will examine the impact of home monitoring and machine learning decision support algorithms for people with CF and bronchiectasis.

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