Lightox, Horizon: Therapeutic Microbubbles and StrataStem are among the companies that will receive support from the North of England Life Sciences Accelerator.
North of England Life Science Accelerator (Nelsa), a £500,000 ($650,000) program launched in September 2016 with the backing of several universities, has chosen eight companies to receive expert help with of becomnig ready for funding.
Four of the companies are life sciences spinouts, including Lightox, from Durham University, Horizon: Therapeutic Microbubbles, from University of Leeds, and StrataStem, from University of Manchester.
Newcastle University has also had an undisclosed business chosen, focused on “an integrated gastrointestinal model for drug delivery”.
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