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This page shows the latest Longitude Prize news and features for those working in and with pharma, biotech and healthcare.

Longitude Prize on Dementia launches innovator hackathons to those aiming for £1m grand prize

The new Longitude Prize on Dementia has announced a series of virtual hackathons open to innovators hoping to win its £1m grand prize for the creation of a personalised, technology-based ... Ruth Neale, programme lead, Longitude Prize on Dementia at

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Longitude Prize in final stage of deciding recipients of £8m prize

Launched in 2014, The Longitude Prize challenges innovators to create new rapid tests. ... 50 teams are actively pursuing the Longitude Prize currently and are based in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, Israel, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, India,
Longitude Prize awards grants for antibiotic test development

Daniel Berman, Longitude Prize lead at UK innovation foundation Nesta, said: “The groups receiving these grants are working across a range of technologies, from nanosensors to gene detectors to lasers, but ... Launched by David Cameron at the G8 Summit
NICE wants responsible use of antibiotics in pneumonia

The need to improve diagnostic efforts in bacterial infections was highlighted earlier this year in the winner of the Longitude Prize, a UK innovation prize that was awarded to the development
Antibiotics: pharma's Cinderella story

In the UK the Longitude Prize awarded for addressing societal challenges was this year granted to the development of rapid, reliable point of care diagnostics to enable more effective use of
UK healthcare professionals urged to say 'no' to antibiotics

The urgent need to revise the way the antibiotics are used also led to the £10m Longitude Prize being awarded to a diagnostic tool for bacterial infections, while a campaign to

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Why diagnostics investments are crucial to win the AMR battle

They have been incentivised to develop these tests by the Longitude Prize on AMR. ... Jasmin Major is Longitude Prize on AMR Programme Manager at Challenge Works.
Tackling antimicrobial resistance on multiple fronts

Indeed, the innovations in the race to win the Longitude Prize, an £8m challenge prize to accelerate the development of a rapid, affordable point-of-care diagnostic test to reduce overuse ... The Longitude Prize. From a design perspective, we know that
The AMR threat

Dame Sally has worked hard to raise awareness of the challenges involved in tackling antibiotic resistance, and she helped bring it to a world stage via the innovative Longitude Prize. ... Launched at the 2013 G8 meeting, the prize supports research into

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Antibiotic Resistance: Alarm bells ring louder than ever

Plus, recent financial incentives have been encouraging these smaller players, as exemplified by the £10 million 2014 Longitude Prize.

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