Nicola Blackwood
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Chair @GenomicsEngland , Chair @OxUInnovation , Board Member @BioNTech_Group , Former Innovation Minister, old time musician.
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Nicola Blackwood Retweeted
An important moment in our democracy with our next Prime Minister shaking hands with his arch political opponent, Elmo.
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The UK’s life sciences sector is getting a £520m boost for manufacturing 🧬
This will increase preparedness for future health emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic and further strengthen research and development across the UK 🔬
Read more 🔽
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Exclusive: Buried in the online autumn statement is a bit of news with potentially huge implications for biopharma.
The UK is going to try to create a pathway for individually customised medicines!
@mhra
@stopbatten
@GenomicsEngland
@OHRareDisease
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The Government's response to Paul Nurse's review of the R&D landscape in the UK has just been published.
A few things that caught my eye on a first read through 🧵
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Today is a very exciting day. The UK government announced in the Autumn Statement by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, their support for the individualized medicines pilot MMF initiated over a year ago with support from Daniel O'Connor
@parkermoss
@Rich_Genomics
@nicolablackwood
@timyu
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.
@NicolaBlackwood
and Chas Bountra from OUI's Board share their thoughts on the latest Independent Review of University Spin-outs👇
#innovation
#lifesciences
#investment
#spinout
#techtransfer
#USIT
@hmtreasury
@SciTechgovuk
@UniofOxford
@griffitha
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3.5m people in the UK live with a rare disease. 75% are children.
But under 10% of rare diseases have an approved treatment.
We must fix this.
As Chair of
@GenomicsEngland
I am delighted
@Jeremy_Hunt
announced the Rare Therapies Launch Pad today.
Info here👇👇
We are delighted to announce the launch of the Rare Therapies Launch Pad, a new programme that aims to develop a pathway for children with rare conditions to access therapies made specifically for them. Read more here:
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Incredible story 👋⬇️
@TheCrick
@maxgabgut
lab uncover role of ‘molecular plasters’ that protect against infection | Crick
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It was great to join you
@SFatumo
and such a brilliant Plenary Table
@Falling_Walls
Science this evening. With so much pressure on health systems - gathering evidence for & demonstrating effective implementation for precision prevention has never been more important!
Such an excellent opportunity to speak about how genomics can power precision prevention across global populations
@Falling_Walls
Science Summit in Berlin today.
It was indeed a privilege to brainstorm in a panel with
@EleZeggini
@nicolablackwood
@markmccarthyoxf
@NancyGenetics
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Nicola Blackwood Retweeted
‘We could eradicate malaria by 2040.’
Prof Adrian Hill explains why Oxford's malaria vaccine is a game-changer ⬇️
#OxfordVaccine
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I pray for the peace of Israel. I condemn the terrible acts of terror Hamas are inflicting on civilians. Tonight Israeli flag flies
@10DowningStreet
, Berlin, NYC, EU Commission. We
#StandWithIsrael
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Dodging the rain today outside
@BioEscalator
at
@OxfordMedSci
Old Road Campus filming for launch of first
@OxUInnovation
Impact Report. V exciting: WATCH THIS SPACE 👀🔬🌳🤝👩🏽🏫🌎
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Nicola Blackwood Retweeted
.
@GoogleDeepMind
’s AI is now helping scientists speeds up the search for disease genes.
@ewanbirney
tells me
#AI
is “changing nearly everything in molecular biology”.
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Excited that we’re announcing today our
@genomicsengland
partnership with
@nanopore
to Long-Read sequence 7,500 rare disease participants in order to increase diagnostic rates and treatment opportunities 🧬 🚀
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Excited to share
#AlphaMissense
our new AI system that can classify whether genetic mutations (missense variants) are benign or harmful - a critical step toward uncovering causes of many diseases, from cystic fibrosis to cancer. In
@ScienceMagazine
today
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Fantastic
@GenomicsEngland
Research Summit - celebrating great progress & vital clinical impact genomics has now but also clarion call to press on & realise full potential
Thanks to all our amazing partners
#NHS
, participants, researchers, industry. See you next year!
#GERS2023
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I know how many of you will welcome this! 👉👉👉 UK Set to Rejoin EU Horizon Science Program After Two Year Absence
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Nicola Blackwood Retweeted
The
@turinginst
2022-23 annual report is released today, and it gives me great pleasure to introduce the Turing’s research highlights of the year – just a taste of our successes in 2022-23.
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We propose:
- Funding research for better model evaluations
- Developing risk-responsive capabilities assessments
- Establishing pre-registration for large training runs
- Empowering technically literate auditors
- Mandating red teaming before model release
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