Industry News

The winners of the 2018 Medilink West Midlands (Medilink WM) Medical and Healthcare Business Awards have been revealed. The Awards, which have been running for over 10 years, took place on Thursday 7th February at The Birmingham Conference and Events Centre.

The shortlist has been revealed for the 2018 Medilink West Midlands Medical and Healthcare Business Awards, which celebrates the region’s most innovative and successful medical and healthcare companies.

Edgbaston Medical Quarter is launching a new patient pathway to provide a door-to-door service to international private patients for complex healthcare treatments to Birmingham, the UK’s second largest city.

Medilink West Midlands are pleased to announce that MasterControl have signed up as the Headline Sponsor for Medilink WM Medical and Healthcare Business Awards 2018.

Scientists at the University of Birmingham have discovered a protein that could hold the key to novel gene therapies for skin problems including psoriasis – a common, chronic skin disease that affects over 100 million people worldwide.

BioHub Birmingham® tenant Abingdon Health has launched an intuitive software application called AppDx. AppDx enables a Smartphone to ‘read’ lateral flow test lines, using the inbuilt camera, which translates the image into numerical data. 

The BioHub Birmingham® is constructing 5,000sq ft of self-contained laboratory and office suites to meet an increasing demand for biomedical incubator space.

Midlands based CSR Scientific Training is hosting a lunch and learn session at the Birmingham Research Park on Laboratory and Scientific Apprenticeships on Thursday 27th September.

Medilink Midlands, a pan-regional strategic alliance between the Medilinks in the East and West Midlands, has recently been established to bring the collective expertise of the two organisations together to preserve the interests of over 1,700 Life Science organisations within the region and stimulate growth to support this vital element of the Midlands economy.

Medilink West Midlands (MedilinkWM) is proud to announce that one of its newest members, Australian company ‘Orthocell Ltd’ (Orthocell), has just signed its first distribution deal in the UK for its range of dental products.