UK Life Sciences Cautiously Upbeat For Investment Year Ahead – BioWales 2024

Kadans Sciences Investor Panel Offers Pragmatic View Of Market Outlook

Favorable UK biopharma investment trends have been reported by the BioIndustry Association, but can medtech and healthtech share in the positivity? A roundtable at the BioWales in London 2024 event framed the outlook for non-pharma players.

innovation
• Source: Alamy

Özgür Tuncer, investment partner with Ascension Life Fund and co-founder and CEO of Stablepharma, was the first at BioWales in London 2024 to speak of improving conditions in the UK investment market. It would happen “sometime later this year.”

He told a 5 March investor panel hosted by Kadans Sciences’ Mairi Dillon: “I am cautiously optimistic.” The life sciences...

More from Deal-Making

More from In Vivo

Rising leaders 2025: Aneesh Karatt-Vellatt On Maxion Therapeutics’ Antibody Revolution

 
• By 

Aneesh Karatt-Vellatt is leading the charge to redefine how ion channels and G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are targeted with antibody therapies, one of the most notoriously challenging classes of drug targets.

Podcast: Scancell’s Cancer Vaccine Progress With NHS Partnership

 
• By 

In the latest podcast interview, Phil L'Huillier, CEO of Scancell, discussed the company's work in cancer vaccine development, and its selection as the first British biotech to be a part of the NHS Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad.

Geopolitical Volatility Not Dimming A Healthy Mid-Term Outlook For Life Sciences Deals

 
• By 

New report by global law firm Taylor Wessing and Bayes Business School forecasts a steadily increasing volume of major life sciences M&A in the coming five years, but highlights concerns over cybersecurity and unrealistic valuations. Taylor Wessing partner Andrew Edge spoke to In Vivo.