We need new drugs and therapies, with better efficacy and clinical performance. They need to reach the marketplace faster, at lower cost and in line with regulation. At the same time, the move towards personalised medicine has great potential in delivering improved patient outcomes.
New financial, research and regulatory models for drug discovery and development aim to encourage investment in areas of critical need, such as pandemic preparedness and antimicrobial resistance. To take full advantage of emerging opportunities, through the development of innovative new therapeutic approaches the healthcare industry faces many challenges, including:
improvements in manufacture, delivery, analysis and quality control of complex medicines, advanced therapies and bioproducts (including point of care manufacture). This includes the application of adaptive manufacturing and the establishment of Pharma 4.0, the digitisation of medicines manufacture.
Our work is supporting researchers developing new drugs and therapies through:
The programmes above are underpinned by our work as the UK’s National metrology institute and the realisation and maintenance of SI units along with primary and secondary standards.
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Our researchers are at the forefront of new innovations that promise to deliver new solutions to healthcare challenges, and also play a vital role in providing the standards and assurance to accelerate their route to market. Learn more about our research areas and working with our experts.
If you have a research collaboration where our expertise can help, please can contact the team and discuss your challenge.
The Grand Challenge, a new Cancer Research UK initiative, aims to overcome the biggest challenges facing cancer researchers in a global effort to beat cancer sooner. Funded through the scheme, NPL's Professor Josephine Bunch leads a group of international and multidisciplinary chemists, physicists and biologists from the UK to develop a reproducible, standardised way to fully map tumours with extraordinary precision.
Find out more about the range of work we do in life sciences and health.
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