Innovate UK
Sano Genetics, Patients Know Best, BenevolentAI, C4X Discovery Form Ulcerative Colitis Alliance
The British companies will collaborate on a database to support ulcerative colitis research and identify new drug targets for the disease.
University of Manchester, Sano Genetics to Research Eye Diseases
The partners plan to build a database of genomic and patient-reported data to identify how genetics can impact disease outcome.
Innovate UK Grants University of Oxford, ATDBio £370K for Single-Cell Sequencing Tech Development
UK-based ATDBio will develop new oligonucleotide-tagged microbeads for use in droplet-based single-cell RNA sequencing, to be evaluated by researchers at Oxford.
Mendelian Wins £500K Grant to Improve Rare Disease Dx
The UK informatics startup has received funding from Innovate UK to implement an informatics platform for physicians to identify patients for genomic testing.
PredictImmune Wins £100K Grant for Study of IBD Prognostic
The test is a 15-biomarker quantitative PCR panel used to stratify patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis based on the severity of their illness.