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Funding Success for spin-out company Gastrobody Therapeutics
3 December 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Ana Rossi , Dr. Yasunori Watanabe and Prof. Mark Howarth for their recent funding success for developing orally administered antibody mimetics through their spin-out company, Gastrobody Therapeutics. This funding includes UKRI Proof of Concept, Wellcome Trust Access to Expertise, and Technology...
Congratulations to the Merkle Group!
24 November 2025
The Florian T. Merkle group at the Department of Pharmacology recently received funding to help launch an anti-obesity drug development spin-out company. The global obesity pandemic is a leading preventable cause of death, and the anti-obesity drug market is growing exponentially and is predicted to be worth ~$100 billion...
Announcing the Annual David James Lecture for 2026
19 November 2025
We are pleased to announce the Department of Pharmacology’s next flagship Annual David James Lecture speaker: Professor Lotte Bjerre Knudsen . Department of Pharmacology: David James Lecture 2026 Speaker : Professor Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Head of IDEA and Chief Scientific Advisor at Novo Nordisk Title : GLP-1: the medicines...
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