Tag: medicine
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Faster medicine: £56 million innovation centre for Scotland
The new centre will offer businesses support to transform processes and technologies. A new centre to help companies develop processes and technologies for manufacturing medicines could benefit future generations by helping new medicines reach patients safely and quickly. By supporting both start-ups and multinational pharmaceutical companies it’s hoped that the speed in which new medicines…
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Artificial Intelligence Is Likely to Make a Career in Finance, Medicine or Law a Lot Less Lucrative
Image credit: Blutgruppe | Getty Images First generation robots worked in factories. Second generation robots are preparing for white-collar profession. Sort of like people. Perhaps you were encouraged to get a professional degree to land a high paying job like a doctor, dentist, lawyer or something similar. This also seems like great advice, considering a professional degree…
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Innovate UK offers £8m to fund digital healthcare innovation. Sign up !
To support a growing, ageing population, Innovate UK is making up to £8m available to UK businesses to develop new and novel digital healthcare solutions. This competition is being run under the digital health technology catalyst, which is part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. The aim is to support the development of digital health…
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UK Gov’t unveils £86m package to support SMEs
14th July 2017 Health minister Lord O’Shaughnessy has unveiled a new package of support worth up to £86 million to help innovative UK businesses develop medical breakthroughs that are then used across the NHS. The funding marks the first step in taking forward recommendations made in the Accelerated Access Review (AAR), which aim to accelerate…
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Pharmaceutical innovation in Europe: Unlocking the value of science
Lab technician | via GettyImages It is widely acknowledged that immunotherapy is the most important breakthrough in cancer treatment in recent years. While immunotherapy cannot yet help the majority of cancer patients, it is leading to promising results in a certain proportion of those treated. As medical science continues to break new ground, many new…