9/11/2025 1:21:08 PM $100m Boost for Women’s Health Research By Anna Honey Gabriela Necula Melinda French Gates has announced a $100 million investment into women’s health through a partnership between Pivotal (the coalition...
9/4/2025 8:57:18 AM Breaking Resistance – could AI revolutionise antibiotic discovery? By Claire Smith Stefano Incarbone Using generative AI to discover new antibiotics On 14 August 2025, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) reported1 that a team...
8/15/2025 3:32:17 PM MHRA announces Early Access Service for Innovative Medical Devices By Hugo Kent-Egan Alex Denoon In another welcome development, the MHRA has published an interesting Statement of Policy Intent for Early Access Service to Innovative...
8/14/2025 11:42:10 AM Women’s healthcare and UK competition enforcement – recent developments By Antonia Kendrick Healthcare generally is a priority enforcement sector for competition watchdogs across the world, including the UK’s Competition and...
8/7/2025 9:15:57 AM From academia to industry: The role of university spin-outs in women’s health innovation By Laura Harwood Melissa Dix University spin-out companies offer a means of commercialising valuable intellectual property (IP) and technology generated through...
8/4/2025 1:40:59 PM Recognition of CE-marked medical devices in the UK By Hugo Kent-Egan Alex Denoon On 22 July 2025, the UK Government signalled that it is likely to pivot back to indefinite recognition of CE Marking of devices. In a...
7/31/2025 8:51:24 AM The double-edged sword of AI in femtech in the EU By Ellie Handy Subhalakshmi Kumar Kiran Sidhu AI presents many opportunities in the women’s health space, but it can also pose considerable risks. Anyone seeking to commercialise...
7/30/2025 3:01:07 PM It’s time to act on the new R&D regime By Julia Cockroft Tabitha Reed Although the UK’s new R&D tax relief regime came into force on 1 April 2024, many companies have only now completed their first...
7/30/2025 2:34:53 PM Biotech Review of the Year: latest developments By Bristows LLP At the start of the year, our editors (Xisca Borrás, Katie Cambrook and Aida Tohala) presented to you the 12th edition of our Biotech...
7/30/2025 10:54:35 AM Sarepta’s Duchenne difficulties: potential implications for gene therapy licensing By Ellen Lambrix Luca Cericola Earlier this year, we reported on key considerations that parties involved in the negotiation and drafting of financial milestone...
7/25/2025 9:19:27 AM Court of Appeal upholds Astellas' enzalutamide patent By Claire Phipps-Jones On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal handed down a decision upholding Astellas’ enzalutamide patent. Appeals on the question of obviousness...
7/24/2025 12:18:11 PM National Security Regime: changes on the horizon for AI, tech and life sciences companies? By Oliver Alsop Ben Lammin Sean Hess Government launches consultation into its national security notification regime which could see a shake up to key sensitive sectors to...