A new report - Mobilising Research Excellence in the Midlands to Tackle COVID-19 - published today (Friday, January 15 2021) reveals that the Midlands has moved swiftly to apply its wealth of capability in its hospitals, universities and businesses to deliver £90m of research to support regional, national and global...
Reach Separations launches European expansion plans with purification alliance with NovAliX
Nottingham-based purification specialists Reach Separations and French drug discovery contract research organisation (CRO), NovAliX, have entered into a unique alliance to develop supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) capabilities at the NovAliX facility near Strasbourg. Formed in support of Reach Separations’ strategy to grow its European presence, and in response to a...
Quantum Design UK and Ireland and the Medical Technologies Innovation Facility (MTIF) enter into a Partnership Agreement.
Agreement will aim to benefit the life science and semiconductor market sectors and research labs to accelerate the development of new innovative technologies. Quantum Design, UK and Ireland (QD) and Medical Technologies Innovation Facility (MTIF) are pleased to announce they have entered into a partnership agreement affording customers the ability...
Midas Goes Large with its Latest Investment
As we start a brand new year, it’s out with the old and in with the new at Midas. We say goodbye to our oldest CNC machine, but are excited to take delivery of a brand new HAAS CNC machining centre. Not only is the HAAS VF-11/40 machining centre a significant investment, it...
Pennine Healthcare working with Cabinet Office to Manufacture Face Coverings
Pennine Healthcare, one of the UK’s leading privately-owned medical manufacturers, is delighted to announce it is working with the UK Cabinet Office, to produce UK manufactured face coverings. The face coverings are part of a £14 million Government investment to help in the fight against COVID-19. Millions of coverings can...
Brexit Trade Deal Statement – Morningside Pharmaceuticals
Chairman of Morningside Pharmaceuticals Dr Nik Kotecha gives his views on the Brexit Trade Deal agreed at the end of 2020. Dr Nik Kotecha OBE, said: “Uncertainty has dogged the UK’s business community and the wider economy since the referendum in 2016; so it’s great news that a deal has...
Intelligent OMICS, Arctoris and Medicines Discovery Catapult test in silico pipeline for identifying new molecules for cancer treatment
Medicines discovery innovators, Intelligent OMICS, supported by Arctoris and Medicines Discovery Catapult, are applying artificial intelligence to find new disease ‘drivers’ and candidate drugs for lung cancer. This collaboration, backed by Innovate UK, will de-risk future R&D projects and also demonstrate new cost and time-saving approaches to drug discovery. Analysing...
JAPANESE ORDER FOR XCAM’S SOFT X-RAY RIXSCAM CAMERA
UK based, XCAM Ltd, designers and manufacturers of specialised digital imaging systems, has successfully completed its first order to Japan for the high-performance RIXSCam Mini, a new single detector camera system, for use on the latest X-ray beamlines for resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) experiments. The order, from Professor Harada...
Medilink Midlands Christmas Message 2020
As Chief Executive, one of my last duties for the year is to deliver the Medilink Christmas message. However, in this strangest of years, we thought it only fitting to break from tradition and have the first ever Medilink Midlands Christmas message come from one of the longest serving Medilink...
Ilkeston textile company turns plastic bottles into face masks
An Ilkeston textile manufacturer has developed a sustainable washable face mask made from recycled waste plastic bottles in a bid to reduce the environmental impact of coronavirus. Baltex, which has been in business since 1831, has created the high-performance mask in response to reports that disposable masks have led to...