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Towards the ‘holy grail’ of anticoagulant drugs

17 Jun 2013

New Cambridge spin-out raises $11 million in funding to develop revolutionary new drug for thrombosis, which causes heart attacks and strokes.

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Confocal microscopy showing mutant A1AT as green inclusions within a cell

New collaboration to develop treatments for liver disease

07 Sep 2012

A new collaboration based at the University of Cambridge will aim to discover and develop new medicines to treat liver disease.

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Small chemical fragments

Small is beautiful in drug discovery

01 May 2010

Cambridge scientists are employing fragment-based drug discovery approaches - a technique that involves "growing" potent drugs from tiny chemical...

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Pancreatic Tumour

Smart testing for smart drugs

04 Jan 2010

Can better decisions be made about which anticancer drugs to progress to clinical trials?

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Hutchison/MRC Research Centre

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre

01 Jan 2010

Fundamental research is pioneering innovative approaches to cancer diagnosis and treatment at the Hutchison/MRC Research Centre.

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Mouths

"Academic Incubator" to develop new medicines of value

01 Sep 2008

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has signed its first agreement with the University to optimise the early clinical development of new GSK medicines for obesity...

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Molecular effect of drugs

New paths to drug discovery

01 May 2008

A new Cambridge programme aims to meet the challenges of drug discovery by harnessing a spectrum of academic expertise.

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