Cancer Research UK Archives

News and Trends 3 Feb 2023

Beyond Biotech podcast 32: Cancer Research Horizons, Enterome, OncoHost, TrakCel, Turbine

Our guests are Ofer Sharon, CEO of OncoHost; Matthew Lakelin, co-founder, TrakCel; Pierre Belichard, CEO of Enterome; and Tony Hickson, chief business officer for Cancer Research UK and Cancer Research Horizons and Daniel Veres, chief science officer and co-founder, Turbine. World Cancer Day February 4 is World Cancer Day. This year, the theme is Close […]

February 3, 2023 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 5 Jan 2023

Cancer Research UK and Turbine to partner on program

Cancer Research Horizons, the innovation engine at the core of the world’s largest private funder of cancer research, Cancer Research UK, has announced that it is partnering with Turbine AI, a tech-enabled biotech leveraging its proprietary Simulated Cell platform to solve complex diseases. The partnership will utilize Turbine AI’s platform to identify target patient populations […]

January 5, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

Startup Scout 8 Sep 2022

Stratosvir is overcoming the viral immunotherapy delivery bottleneck

The U.K. startup Stratosvir is working to tackle the barriers to developing viral immunotherapies for cancer, including allowing intravenous delivery and making it possible to dose multiple times. Cancer immunotherapies have made great strides in the last decade, with some of the most important advances including CAR-T cell therapy and checkpoint inhibitors. One oncology field […]

September 8, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

cancer shutterstock immunotherapy deep science ventures

News and Trends 26 Jul 2022

Deep Science Ventures deepens CRUK pact to co-found oncology startups

The venture builder Deep Science Ventures (DSV) has expanded an existing alliance with Cancer Research UK’s innovation-focused arm Cancer Research Horizons, with the mission to establish new oncology startups in the U.K. Just months after Cancer Research UK (CRUK) established its industry-orientated division Cancer Research Horizons, the research charity has doubled down on a collaboration […]

July 26, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 27 Apr 2022

Cancer Research UK Deploys €700M to Foster Oncology Startups

In a show of strength after an income squeeze during the Covid-19 pandemic, the charity Cancer Research UK has dedicated €711M (£600M) to setting up a new innovation arm and seed fund designed to speed up the commercialization of oncology innovation. For decades, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has played a pivotal role in nurturing advances […]

April 27, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 16 Feb 2021

Cancer Research UK Cuts Two Biotech Collaborations Amid Pandemic Squeeze

The major research funder CRUK and two of the biotech companies it works with have decided to cut development ties as the financial impact of the coronavirus disease pandemic continues to bite. Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is a prolific research charity, running a multitude of collaborations with academics and biotech companies around the world. However, […]

February 16, 2021 - 4 minutesmins - By Anita Chakraverty

boehringer ingelheim cancer vaccine amal therapeutics

News and Trends 10 Apr 2020

Coronavirus Pandemic Bites into European Cancer Research

The UK funder Cancer Research UK and Swedish oncology biotech Alligator Bioscience have independently announced cuts to payroll and research costs due to the coronavirus disease pandemic. Cancer Research UK is cutting research funding by €50M after calculating it will lose a quarter or more of its annual fundraising income — or €137m — through […]

April 10, 2020 - 4 minutesmins - By Anita Chakraverty

cancer research uk grand challenge award

News and Trends 22 Jun 2017

What are the Biggest Cancer Challenges? The UK Offers £20M Prizes for Solutions!

Cancer Research UK is taking applications for £20M prizes from research groups worldwide that want to solve the biggest challenges in cancer research. Cancer Research UK is launching today its second round of the Grand Challenge to tear down some of the biggest barriers to the advancement of cancer therapy. The charity will shortlist the most promising […]

June 22, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 30 Mar 2017

New Clues on How the Immune System Weakens with Age

By analyzing the responses of individual immune cells, a new study in Science provides new insights into the decline of the immune system with age. In a collaborative effort, researchers from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), University of Cambridge, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Cancer Research UK–Cambridge Institute (CRUK-CI) have shed light on a […]

March 30, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

News and Trends 6 Oct 2016

New UK Hero Will Fight Against Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Achilles Therapeutics was born yesterday in the UK with a €15M funding round. The company will focus on the development of personalized neo-antigentherapies for non-small lung cancer. The newborn Achilles Therapeutics made its debut yesterday with a splashy fundraising round and a licensing agreement. The startup has exclusive rights to develop and commercialize any neo-antigen technology that […]

October 6, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

cancer hypoxia antimalarial drug atovaquone

News and Trends 26 Jul 2016

This Malaria drug is being re-purposed for Cancer Radiotherapy

Cancer Research UK says an old anti-malaria drug could be repurposed as a cancer therapy. In pre-clinical studies, this drug increases oxygen levels in tumors, making them easier to treat with radiotherapy. Atovaquone has been on the market since 2000 as part of an anti-malarial drug. It is also commercialized by GSK under the name Mepron for […]

July 26, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

msd cancer research uk monash crt merck australia

News and Trends 1 Feb 2016

New Discovery unites Australia, Germany and UK Against Blood Cancers

Cancer Research UK has teamed up with MSD (Merck) and the Wellcome Trust to co-develop some Inhibitors for both Cancerous and Non-cancerous blood disorders from the Australian Academia-Biotech Network. The Australian Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) for Cancer Therapeutics (CTx) in Melbourne has a range of investigational inhibitors for blood disorders – including Leukemia. CTx is collaborative partnership […]

February 1, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

Resources

Categories

The twelve hottest biotech companies in the Boston area

Biotech bankruptcies: what to expect in 2024 following a record year?

Approaches

Therapeutic areas

RNA editing set to take off: could it outperform gene editing?

Future of cancer treatment: what will therapy look like in 2034?

R&D

BD

World biotech leaders

Connect with decision-makers and researchers worldwide for collaborative opportunities

Company

Join Us

Subscribe to our newsletter

Advertise with us