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New CEO Mortazavi takes UK biotech e-therapeutics into gene silencing

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UK biotech e-therapeutics has a new CEO, with executive chairman and former Silence Therapeutics chief Ali Mortazavi chosen to spearhead the next stage in the company’s development into gene silencing and other areas. He said: “These big pharma companies have every type of technology available to them.

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The trends driving ELRIG Drug Discovery 2022

Drug Discovery World

This year, genome engineering company Synthego launched a portfolio of Engineered Cell Librariesnto help improve access to CRISPR-edited cells for direct use in functional screening assays. This year has seen some major deals announced by big pharma companies.