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Chris Molloy discusses Government engagement, the King’s Speech, health data, Isomorphic’s huge raise, the Start-up Festival and expanding BIA’s reach

Four of the most significant opportunities currently available to engage with global industry leaders

BIA CEO Chris Molloy discusses the vision for data report, rare disease R&D, Women in Biotech, Europe GMO rules, Bio€quity and Swiss Biotech Day

It has been an extremely challenging time for biotech post COVID-19 boom, but our Q1 financing report offers hope with continued positive momentum.

In this blog, Ethan Almond reflects on the inaugral BioSolutions UK conference, which brought together over 200 innovators, policymakers and industry leaders alongside an additional 29 investors.

The UK BioIndustry Association (BIA) is the UK’s trade association for innovative life sciences and the leading UK-wide forum for expert communities and high quality peer-to-peer networking in the sector.

In this blog, Ethan Almond reflects on the successes and innovative technology of biosolutions company and BIA member twig.

The UK’s biosolutions sector has established itself as a billion-pound frontier industry, with companies raising £1.46 billion in equity investment since 2018.

Each month, our Policy and Public Affairs team will showcase how we are championing members’ voices in Government and Parliament.

In this guest blog, Paul Jeffrey, Director of the GFIL/Cranfield Technology Accelerator at Cranfield Water Science Institute, explains how engineering biology solutions for environmental applications face unclear and complex regulatory pathways.

Fermtech has raised £2.5m to scale Koji Cocoa™, a fermentation-based cocoa ingredient made from cocoa shells that delivers 25–33% cost savings and up to 98% lower carbon emissions.

This guest blog from Cam Watson, biosolutions startup advisor, draws on a broader analysis of Japan’s biosolutions ecosystem, examining company formation, corporate engagement, manufacturing capacity and growth-stage funding dynamics.

I’m pleased to share that we are part of a new Government and industry joint taskforce to drive innovation in the UK’s commercial environment for medicines, announced last week as part of government ambitions for the Life Sciences Strategy.

Biorecycling startup Epoch Biodesign announced that it has raised $12 million in a new funding round.

In this blog, Linda Bedenik, our Head of Biosolutions and International Policy, and Maddie Cass, our Policy and Public Affairs Manager, reflect on the tireless work they have done, and will continue to do, to propel innovative biosolutions in the UK nationally and across Europe.

In this blog, Jaime Eaton, reflects on this month's Community Connects series, bringing together diverse expertise to tackle the most pressing challenges in our sector.

There are a number of significant moving pieces right now in the sector, including the major strategic shift at UKRI and Innovate launched last Thursday.

BIA BioSolutions is here: a new strategic platform dedicated to championing the UK’s engineering biology ecosystem beyond health. Discover how we are bridging the gap between world-class science and industrial scale to drive global sustainability.

In this blog, Linda Bedenik, Senior Policy and Public Affairs Manager at BIA, explores Biosolutions, defining what they are and their potential to solve global challenges beyond health.