Synpromics has announced it has been awarded a £1.9 million research and development grant from Scottish Enterprise. The funds will expand Synpromics’ world leading R&D programmes in gene regulation for cell and gene medicines.
This grant is part of Synpromics’ ambitious £5.4 million R&D project which initially creates 11 new high-skilled jobs. Synpromics will use the grant to expand and further develop its PromPT technology platform and to create novel inducible promoter systems that can be applied across the biotechnology sector. The funding will support pre-clinical evaluation studies in a range of disease models, allowing the company to identify the best use of its technology for the treatment of disease using advanced therapeutic regimes such as cell and gene medicine.
Dr Michael Roberts, CSO of Synpromics, said, “We are developing technologies that facilitate the control of cell and gene therapies to be specific to cell and tissue types and responsive to either small molecules, biological environment or other stimuli. With this technology, we enable the development of novel medicines for a range of devastating diseases where the current treatment options are limited or non-existent. This award will help fund Synpromics’ state-of-the-art research and build on the success of gene control technology programmes to date, focused on designing innovative cell and gene therapies for unmet medical needs.”
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