Medicines Discovery Catapult

Looking for mental health funding? We’re supporting researchers to generate data on novel drug targets related to early intervention in anxiety, depression and/or psychosis. This funding call is open to researchers: 🟢 from any relevant discipline 🟢 at any stage of their career 🟢 based anywhere in the world 🟢 working with commercial consultants or collaborators Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eZ7ECpZn

📢 Funding available to mental health drug discovery innovators. One in four people in England will experience mental health problems each year, and more research is needed to understand, diagnose and treat mental health conditions. Wellcome Trust, in collaboration with Medicines Discovery Catapult's Psychiatry Consortium, has launched a funding call offering up to £700,000 per project to support mental health drug innovators. 🚨 The funding call is now open.🚨 Key dates 📅: • Wellcome webinar: 25 February 13:00. • Preliminary applications must be submitted by: 15 April 2025. Read the full article and register for the webinar: https://hubs.li/Q036mqh50

🔬Today marks the 10th anniversary of the International Day of Women & Girls in Science! To celebrate, we are taking you behind the scenes on a lab tour 🎥 - where our team shares their journey into the world of science. From early inspirations to groundbreaking work, hear firsthand what a future in science can look like! Share with a future scientist to inspire the next generation of women in STEM! 💡👩🔬 #WomenInScience #STEM #FutureScientists Eve Corrie | Rebecca Kelly | Grace Haydon | Catherine Eagle

📢 Announcing the Mental Health Platform Industry Alliance 📢 We want to build a trusted Alliance with industry partners, which can turn research findings into real-world positive impacts for people with severe mental illness (SMI). We are seeking leading industry experts who are operating (or seeking to operate) within the mental health field, with interests in biomarkers, diagnostics, technologies and treatments. 👉Find out more on our website: https://buff.ly/3WG1PW7 🔗 Apply with the online form: https://buff.ly/40EQnep ⏳ Apply by: 24th March 2025 Why join? ✅ Partner with researchers & people with lived experience ✅ Drive innovation in SMI (schizophrenia, bipolar, major depression) ✅ Help shape real-world solutions & industry advancements 📩 Questions? mhp@ed.ac.uk #MentalHealth #Biotech #Pharma

We are pleased to share that we have been shortlisted for the following Bionow awards: 🏆 Bionow Partnership and Collaboration Award. 🏆 Bionow Business Support Award. We look forward to celebrating alongside other finalists on 6 March: https://hubs.ly/Q035y16W0 #BionowAwards #CelebratingSuccess #LifeSciencesAwards #LifeSciences Medicines Discovery Catapult | PACE-AMR

🔵Today, we’re at BioInfect 2025 in Liverpool. PACE Programme Director, Dr Beverley Isherwood, spoke earlier about our work to support projects in the early stages of development and our enabling collaborations across the #AMR ecosystem. Meanwhile, PACE Lead for Innovate UK, Dr Phil Packer, has just finished speaking as a panel member on Funding and Investment in AMR. It’s been great to catch up with colleagues, and thank you to the organisers for the opportunity to speak. #Bioinfect2025 | Bionow

Today, we are at #BioInfect2025, listening to great talks from innovators and funders. If you're here, stop by the posters and learn about the work we are doing to help drive drug and diagnostic development. #CysticFibrosis #AMR Bionow Constance Takawira & Lesley Jenkinson

Today, Dr Beverley Isherwood, Strategy Leader, Infectious Diseases will be one of the speakers attending the BioInfect 2025 Conference, presenting her talk 'Keeping PACE with AMR: one year on - early-stage projects and enabling collaborations’. ➡️ Learn more: https://hubs.li/Q035m9Cd0 #BioInfect #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #DrugDiscovery Bionow | PACE-AMR

📢 Don’t miss this week’s Babraham Research Campus webinar, where MDC Lead Scientist, Lorna FitzPatrick, will be featured in the session on 'Top tips to make a successful application to Accelerate@Babraham'. Learn more: https://hubs.li/Q0352GjQ0 #DrugDiscovery #FundingApplication

Find out more about the CF AMR Syndicate Collaborative Discovery Programme at #BioInfect this week 👇 #CysticFibrosis Bionow