BIA Paper on Reliance June 2022

As discussion around the Autumn Budget heats up, BIA is leading a unified call to the Chancellor to back the science, the entrepreneurs and the life sciences industry that can fuel transformational growth for the UK economy. Our sector letter highlights key growth levers and indeed the barriers that hold the sector back in already challenging global conditions. 

LinkGevity featured in Financial Times 5-part global series on Longevity companies. The article highlights how LinkGevity’s pioneering work on Anti-Necrotic technology is opening new frontiers in medicine, with potential for systemic healthspan regeneration.

A new paper published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology sets out a roadmap for designing the next generation of system-level medicines - drugs that deliver the sweeping system-wide health benefits seen with GLP-1s such as Ozempic and Wegovy, but without their biological trade-offs and side effects.

The UK biotech financing numbers for Q3 are out, showing validation of UK assets but a sector under strain from prolonged global headwinds. Time to double down on investment in innovation as a driver for growth and deploy Industrial Strategy plans with urgency.

Medannex Ltd (Edinburgh) announced the presentation of the first clinical data from the ongoing Phase 1b study of MDX-124, at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2025.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to Medannex's novel therapy MDX-124, for the treatment of biliary tract cancer (BTC). The FDA’s decision is based on emerging clinical data from the ongoing first-in-human Phase 1b ATTAINMENT clinical trial, which shows promising efficacy signals in patients treated with MDX-124 monotherapy. Durable disease control and tumour shrinkage have been observed in several BTC patients, with no significant side effects.