Anthony Browne - South Cambs MP. Picture: Stephen Frost
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MP Anthony Browne has launched the South Cambridgeshire Life Sciences Forum as part of his campaign to support the vital local life sciences sector.
The forum was held via Zoom and brought together more than 30 life sciences businesses and professionals, including Kristen McLeod, director of the Office of Life Sciences, who updated the attendees on the work being done at a national level.
Topics covered included scientific funding post-Brexit, laboratory space, supply of specialist materials, social care, industrial strategy and practical genomics (DNA).
Following this launch, forums will be held regularly to keep an open dialogue between the government and the local life sciences sector.
/PRNewswire/ UNION therapeutics A/S (UNION) has been selected by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Cambridge to.
- UNI91103 has been selected as the first agent to be trialed in a study by UK investigators
- If successful, data generated will be used for registration of the product
- The study will include approx.1,500 kidney patients to assess if UNI91103 can prevent patients from contracting symptomatic COVID-19 and / or reduce serious illness and death from the infection
- Kidney patients are considered a high-risk patient population that may not respond well to vaccination
- Niclosamide has been demonstrated to prevent fatal outcomes in an animal model of COVID-19 when administered intranasally
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HELLERUP, Denmark, Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ UNION therapeutics A/S (UNION) has been selected by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Cambridge to trial UNI91103 (intranasal niclosamide) as a prophylactic treatment of COVID-19 in kidney patients, a vulnerable and high-risk patient population.
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In a move which could increase availability of donor organs for children, doctors from the Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambs, have used a machine to keep a heart beating prior to surgery.