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Funding announcement

Funding pre-announcement: addressing limitations in manufacturing nucleic acid therapeutics. MRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, Innovate UK, UKRI.

The consortium can include academic and industrial organisations in the UK and abroad. The lead organisation must be UK-based.

Consortium proposals should demonstrate how the research outputs could benefit the wider UK research and manufacturing community.

You are encouraged to explore opportunities to collaborate with the Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator (NATA) Hub, a new research centre in the UK.

Total fund £6 million.

Further details – https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/addressing-limitations-in-manufacturing-nucleic-acid-therapeutics/

Cobra Biologics – Senior Scientist: Upstream Processing

As a leading international clinical and commercial manufacturer of biologics and pharmaceuticals, Cobra Biologics offers a broad range of integrated and stand-alone contract development and manufacturing services for clinical trials and the commercial market.

Cobra are currently seeking to recruit a Senior Scientist within the Innovation Department at Keele, Staffordshire, UK. The successful candidate will be responsible for biologics upstream process development.

Further information can be found HERE

ESACT-UK 2021 – Registration open – FREE to attend

Registration is now open for the 31st ESACT UK annual conference taking place virtually on 6/7 January and is FREE for all members HERE

Programme includes presentations on topics such as Covid-19 & vaccine manufacture, antibody bioprocessing and advanced therapies.  Speakers include –

Paul Kellam, Kymab Ltd
Sandy Douglas, University of Oxford
Martin Smith, VMIC
Felicity Rose, University of Nottingham
James Budge, University of Kent
Ivan Wall, Aston University
JohnPieracci, Biogen

BioProNET members win innovator of the year

BioProNET members Ben Dolman and James Winterburn won the BBSRC 2018 Innovator of the Year in the Early Career researcher category.

Some information about their innovative work — partly funded by BioProNET — can be found on our case studies page http://biopronetuk.org/case-studies-of-biopronet-funding/
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