(IN BRIEF) Experian and Reward have released new research showing that health and wellbeing spending in the UK has shifted from a seasonal January spike to a year-round budget priority, with growth driven by higher spend per person rather than … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Economy, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Colin Grieves, Consumer Spending, customer behaviour, Experian, Experian Analysis Finds Wellness Is No Longer Just a January Trend, Experian Marketing Services, GDPR, gyms, health and wellbeing, marketing insights, retail analytics, Reward, Reward and Experian Highlight Structural Shift in UK Health and Wellbeing Spending, specialist grocery, sportswear, transactional data, UK Households
(IN BRIEF) Sanofi has received Breakthrough Therapy designation from the U.S. FDA and orphan drug designation from Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for rilzabrutinib (Wayrilz) in warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia, based on data from the ongoing LUMINA 2 … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, France, Government, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, Pharma & Biotech, Retail, Science, Security & Safety, Technology
Tagged Breakthrough Therapy, BTK inhibitor, clinical trials, FDA, FDA Grants Breakthrough Status to Sanofi’s Rilzabrutinib for Rare Blood Disorder, IgG4-related disease, immune thrombocytopenia, Japanese Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare, Karin Knobe, LUMINA 2, LUMINA 3, orphan drug, rare diseases, rilzabrutinib, Sanofi, Sanofi Advances Rilzabrutinib with Breakthrough and Orphan Designations in wAIHA, sickle cell disease, Tailored Covalency®, wAIHA, warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia, Wayrilz
(IN BRIEF) The Institute of Cancer Research, London has appointed Dr Michelle Harrison to its Board of Trustees, bringing extensive experience in global public policy, corporate leadership, and charity governance to the organisation’s governing body. A former Chief Executive and … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Big Win Philanthropy, Board of Trustees, Campaign for Science and Engineering, cancer research, charity governance, corporate governance, Dr Michelle Harrison, Dr Michelle Harrison Joins Board of Trustees at The Institute of Cancer Research, ICR, ICR Brings Senior Public Policy and Business Expert onto Board of Trustees, INNOVATION, Involve, leadership, London, Nesta, Professor Dame Julia Buckingham, Public Affairs, public policy, Reykjavik Global Forum, Social Finance UK, STRATEGY, The Institute of Cancer Research London, Verian Group, WPP Group
(IN BRIEF) The Luxembourg Institute of Health, in collaboration with the Luxembourg Veterinary and Food Administration, has released its first comprehensive status report on avian disease surveillance in 2025, covering avian influenza, Newcastle disease, West Nile, and Usutu viruses. The … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Financial, Government, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Luxembourg, Management, Science, Technology
Tagged ALVA, Avian Influenza, Centre de Soins pour la faune sauvage, Clinical and Applied Virology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Dr Chantal Snoeck, epidemiology, Fédération St-Hubert des Chasseurs, Grand Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps, LIH, LIH and ALVA Highlight Two Decades of Avian Disease Surveillance in New National Report, LIH and ALVA Publish 2025 Status Report on Avian Disease Surveillance in Luxembourg, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg Veterinary and Food Administration, Natür&Emwelt, Nature and Forest Agency, Newcastle disease, one health, OneHealth4Surveillance, Parc Merveilleux, public health preparedness, Usutu virus, West Nile virus, wildlife surveillance, zoonotic diseases
(IN BRIEF) GSK announced that the European Commission has approved Nucala (mepolizumab) as an add-on maintenance treatment for adults in the EU with uncontrolled COPD characterised by raised blood eosinophils who are already receiving inhaled triple therapy, making it the … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Government, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Marketing, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Security & Safety, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged American Thoracic Society, blood eosinophils, COPD, CRSwNP, EGPA, emergency department visits, eosinophilic phenotype, European Commission, European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations, Exacerbations, GSK, GSK Expands Nucala’s European Indications with Landmark Approval for Uncontrolled COPD, GSK Strengthens Its Respiratory Portfolio as Nucala Receives EU Approval for Add-On COPD Treatment, HES, hospitalisations, IL-5, inhaled triple therapy, Kaivan Khavandi, MATINEE trial, mepolizumab, New England Journal of Medicine, Nucala, Phase III, respiratory medicine, Severe Asthma, Susanna Palkonen, type 2 inflammation
(IN BRIEF) The University of Liverpool has partnered with Boston-based BPGbio, Inc. to use artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of new medicines through its Civic HealthTech Innovation Zone, analysing large-scale healthcare data to uncover causal links in disease and … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Education, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged artificial intelligence, BPGbio Inc, causal inference, CHI-Zone, Civic HealthTech Innovation Zone, Claire Eyers, drug discovery, Iain Buchan, Investment Zone Programme, Life Sciences Innovation Zone, Liverpool City Region, Mayor Steve Rotheram, multi-omics, NAi Bayesian AI, Niven Narain, Peter Green, precision medicine, University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool and BPGbio Launch Data-Driven Collaboration to Transform Mechanism-Based Drug Discovery
(IN BRIEF) Researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, have uncovered how the DNA repair enzyme XPF-ERCC1 is recruited to sites of damage and activated inside cells, resolving a long-standing question in molecular biology and providing structural insights that … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged AI in science, AlphaFold, Basil Greber, cancer research, cryogenic electron microscopy, DNA damage, DNA repair, genome integrity, ICR, Institute of Cancer Research, Medical Research Council, Molecular Biology, Nature Communications, New Structural Insights into XPF-ERCC1 Could Help Refine Future Cancer Treatments, SLX4, structural biology, XPF-ERCC1
(IN BRIEF) The Institute of Cancer Research has welcomed Sutton Council’s approval of ambitious plans led by Aviva Capital Partners and Socius to create around one million square feet of new life-sciences research and laboratory space across a 12-acre site … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Government, Healthcare, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Insurance, Investment, Management, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Aviva Capital Partners, cancer research, Daniel May, economic growth, high-skilled jobs, ICR, ICR Welcomes Approval of New One-Million-Square-Foot Life-Sciences Campus at The London Cancer Hub, Innovation Gateway, Institute of Cancer Research, Kristian Helin, laboratory space, life sciences, London Borough of Sutton, research and development, science infrastructure, Socius, Sophie White, Sutton, The London Cancer Hub, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
(IN BRIEF) Schaeffler has expanded its EWELLIX EMA-series with the new EMA-80M linear actuator, a high-power, compact solution specifically designed for medical imaging and operating room applications, particularly height-adjustable patient tables. Capable of lifting up to 20,000 N at speeds … Read the full press release
Posted in Electronics & Machinery, Germany, Healthcare, Industrial, News, Technology
Tagged 220V AC, 48V DC, Christian Mangold, CT, electromechanical actuator, EWELLIX EMA-80M, high power density, IEC 60601-1, integrated brake, IP65M, linear actuator, medical imaging, medical technology, MRI, patient tables, precision motion, Schaeffler, Schaeffler Launches High-Power EWELLIX EMA-80M Linear Actuator for Medical Imaging Applications, scissor-lift tables
(IN BRIEF) The Royal College of Physicians has issued a major warning that maternal obesity now affects one in four pregnancies in the UK and represents an urgent public health crisis, outlining in a new RCP View the significant risks … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged gestational diabetes, health inequalities, maternal health, maternal obesity, NHS, NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, obesity policy, pre-eclampsia, pregnancy health, Professor Keith Godfrey, public health, RCP, Royal College of Physicians, UK Preconception Partnership, University of Southampton
(IN BRIEF) AAU Professor Kristine Jensen de López has helped develop a research-based DLD Knowledge Pack to support teachers in creating stronger language-learning environments for pupils with developmental language disorder, a condition that affects around two children in every classroom … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Denmark, Education, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Science, Technology
Tagged Aalborg University, AAU, AAU research translates into practical classroom strategies for pupils with developmental language disorder, Children’s Language Clinic, classroom strategies, Developmental Language Disorder, DLD, DLD Knowledge Pack, EMU Denmark, Hanne B Søndergaard Knudsen, inclusive teaching, Kristine Jensen de López, language development, Ministry of Children and Education, modelled language, primary education, Special Educational Needs, visual supports
(IN BRIEF) University of Liverpool Professors Mark Gabbay and Dan Joyce will take on central roles in a new £11 million NIHR-funded mental health research initiative linked to the University of Huddersfield’s forthcoming Centre for Equity in Mental Health, bringing … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Education, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Ann Caress, ARC North West Coast, Calderdale, CEMH, Centre for Equity in Mental Health, community-based research, Dan Joyce, Debs Teale, Department of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University, health inequalities, Institute of Population Health, Kirklees, Lancaster University, Liverpool and Huddersfield collaborate on major NIHR-backed mental health research initiative to address health inequalities, Liverpool Clinical Trials Centre, Lucy Chappell, M-RIC, Mark Gabbay, Mental Health Research Groups, MHRG, Michael Doyle, NIHR, South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, The Debs Effect, University of Huddersfield, University of Liverpool, Wakefield
(IN BRIEF) The European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions will hold its first official summit under the European Society of Cardiology in Munich on 19–20 February 2026, bringing together leading and emerging specialists in interventional cardiology to focus on education, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Financial, France, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, News, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Technology
Tagged Alaide Chieffo, cardiology education, Cardiovascular Imaging, catheter-based procedures, clinical guidelines, EACTS, EAPCI, ESC, ESC and EAPCI convene multidisciplinary summit to shape the future of catheter-based cardiovascular care, European Society of Cardiology, heart failure, Heart Team, interventional cardiology, Medical Device Regulation, Munich, patient-centred care, PCI, percutaneous cardiovascular interventions, simulator training, TAVI, Thomas F. Lüscher, young professionals
(IN BRIEF) The University of Exeter is partnering with the University of Oxford and ETH Zürich in a £5 million research programme to investigate why repetitive negative thoughts, or rumination, develop and persist in people with mental health conditions such … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Financial, Government, Healthcare, Industrial, Investment, Management, Science, Switzerland, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged anxiety, Brain Stimulation, cognitive training, computational modelling, depression, Ed Watkins, ETH Zurich, Jacinta O’Shea, Lilian Weber, mental health, Michael Browning, Miriam Klein-Flugge, MRI, neuromodulation, Nicole Wenderoth, NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, pupil-based biofeedback, Rafal Bogacz, repetitive negative thoughts, rumination, TMS, TUS, University of Exeter, University of Exeter and Oxford Launch Advanced Brain Science Study to Improve Understanding and Treatment of Rumination, University of Oxford
(IN BRIEF) Sanofi has received a positive recommendation from the European Medicines Agency’s CHMP for the conditional approval of Rezurock to treat late-line chronic graft-versus-host disease in adults and adolescents aged 12 and older. The opinion, based on clinical trial … Read the full press release
Posted in European Union, France, Healthcare, Marketing, Pharma & Biotech
Tagged belumosudil, CHMP, CHMP Recommends Conditional EU Authorisation for Sanofi’s Rezurock to Treat Late-Line Chronic GVHD, chronic graft-versus-host disease, clinical trials, conditional marketing authorisation, EU regulatory approval, European Medicines Agency, GVHD, haematology, rare diseases, Rezurock™, ROCK2 inhibitor, ROCKstar study, Sanofi, stem cell transplant
(IN BRIEF) The University of Liverpool and the University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City have signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a long-term partnership focused on data science and artificial intelligence innovation for healthcare. Signed during … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Education, Healthcare, Internet & Online, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged academic partnership, artificial intelligence, biomedical informatics, Civic Health Innovation Labs, data science, Department of Public Health Policy and Systems, digital health, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, health systems resilience, Healthcare Innovation, Institute of Population Health, Liverpool City Council, Liverpool City Region, Memorandum of Understanding, public health research, UK Vietnam collaboration, UMP HCMC, University of Liverpool Strengthens UK–Vietnam Health Innovation Ties Through AI-Focused Collaboration with UMP HCMC University of Liverpool, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City
(IN BRIEF) DNV has led a growth financing round of up to €37 million for Recare, enabling the Berlin-based health tech company to scale its AI-driven platform for hospital discharge and aftercare coordination. With participation from CIBC Innovation Banking, the … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Berlin, Business, Financial, Government, Healthcare, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, Norway, Technology
Tagged aftercare coordination, AI agents, Charlotte Goggin, CIBC Innovation Banking, Daniel Holth Larsen, digital health investment, discharge management, DNV, DNV Backs Recare with Major Growth Investment to Advance AI Automation in Hospital Operations, health technology, healthcare AI, healthcare workforce shortages, hospital automation, Maximilian Greschke, Recare, SaaS healthcare platforms
(IN BRIEF) AstraZeneca has announced a $15 billion investment in China through 2030 to expand research, development and manufacturing capabilities, supporting its long-term growth strategy and global pipeline in advanced treatment modalities such as cell therapy and radioconjugates. The investment … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Healthcare, Investment, News, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged advanced medicines, AstraZeneca, AstraZeneca Accelerates 2030 Strategy with $15 Billion China Investment in Breakthrough Therapies and Manufacturing, biopharmaceutical expansion, cell therapy, China investment, China UK healthcare collaboration, global R&D centres, healthcare ecosystem, Healthy China 2030, Keir Starmer, life sciences strategy, oncology innovation, Pascal Soriot, pharmaceutical manufacturing, radioconjugates, research and development
(IN BRIEF) Bertelsmann Investments has launched Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments (BHI), a new independent, transatlantic healthcare-focused investment fund with operations in Europe and the United States. Building on years of successful healthcare investments and a first major exit with AI company … Read the full press release
Posted in Germany, Healthcare, Investment, Management, News, Technology
Tagged AI in healthcare, Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments, Bertelsmann Investments, Bertelsmann Investments Launches Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments to Scale Transatlantic Healthcare Innovation, BHI fund, Carsten Coesfeld, digital health, global VC ecosystem, healthcare entrepreneurship, Healthcare Innovation, healthcare venture capital, Phare Health, R1 acquisition, Thorsten Wirkes, Tim Schneider, Transatlantic Investment
(IN BRIEF) CERSI-PGx has launched a free eLearning portal to support the adoption of pharmacogenomics in routine clinical practice. Led by the University of Liverpool in partnership with the British Pharmacological Society and Queen Mary University of London, the platform … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Healthcare, Internet & Online, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged British Pharmacological Society, CERSI PGx, eLearning portal, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, genomic guided prescribing, genomic medicine, healthcare education Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Innovate UK, Institute of Systems Molecular and Integrative Biology, Maria Tsakiroglou, New CERSI-PGx eLearning Platform Aims to Equip Healthcare Professionals for Genomic-Guided Prescribing, NHS genomics, personalised medicine, pharmacogenomics, Queen Mary University of London, regulatory science, Sir Munir Pirmohamed, Therapeutics Innovation, University of Liverpool
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