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  • Scientist in LifeArc's lab pipetting into vials

    Funding: LifeArc-CSO fund for Scottish translational researchers

    Funding: LifeArc-CSO fund for Scottish translational researchers In association with the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) for the Scottish Government, we…

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  • Image of a blue double helix DNA

    Funding: LifeArc gene therapy innovation fund

    Funding: LifeArc gene therapy innovation fund The LifeArc Gene Therapy Innovation Fund is a £5m annual fund to support manufacture…

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  • Great Ormond Street Hospital entrance

    Funding: LifeArc and GOSH charity fund

    Funding: LifeArc and GOSH charity fund LifeArc and GOSH Charity support a joint funding scheme focused on helping GOSH researchers…

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  • 5 children of varied ethnicity stand outside smiling in a line with arms over each others' shoulders, the sun shining in the background.

    Funding: LifeArc and Action Medical research fund

    Funding: LifeArc and Action Medical research fund Action Medical Research and LifeArc want to improve the lives of children suffering…

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  • A female scientist is wearing PPE in a lab, holding a pipette and carrying out an experiment

    LifeArc Philanthropic fund

    Funding: LifeArc philanthropic fund The Fund provides grants and funding to academic researchers working to advance new treatments and diagnostics…

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  • Child affected by EB with her father. Photo ©Debra Austria

    Funding: Repurposing therapies for epidermolysis bullosa (EB)

    Funding: Repurposing therapies for epidermolysis bullosa (EB) LifeArc and DEBRA Austria are partnering to commit £2.5 million to fund projects…

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  • Female scientist wearing PPE is doing an experiment in a lab, looking at a vial

    Funding: Translational Rare Disease Centres

    Funding: Translational Rare Disease Centres With this £40 million we aim to build on the UK’s rich, rare disease research…

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  • The gloved hands of a lab-coated scientist hold two vials and a pen above lab bench and a tray of vials.

    Muscular Dystrophy Translational Research Fund

    Muscular Dystrophy Translational Research Fund The Muscular Dystrophy Translational Research Fund is a joint fund created by LifeArc and Muscular…

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  • A rack of test tubes containing bright orange coloured liquid.
    News releases

    LifeArc funds pivotal clinical trial to treat an ultra-rare genetic disease with possible link to leader of the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789

    A pivotal clinical trial to look at repurposing the UK-licensed medicine, deferiprone, for patients with neuroferritinopathy, an ultra-rare genetic disease…

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  • A scientist in a white lab coat pipettes liquid into a small vial.
    Articles & blogs

    6 challenges in rare disease research and how we can overcome them

    Rare conditions, individually, have low patient numbers. However, with more than 7,000 rare diseases identified, collectively there are millions of…

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  • LifeArc's Catriona Crombie at the Beacon Drug Repurposing Conference, Oct 22
    Articles & blogs

    Catriona Crombie talks to Rare Revolution about LifeArc’s investment of more than £100 million into rare disease research by 2030

    Catriona discusses why LifeArc is well placed to help overcome some of the obstacles in rare disease research

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  • Young patient holding hand with a parent in hospital
    News releases

    Groundbreaking new £100m LifeArc programme aims to improve the lives of people living with a rare disease

    Brings together the world-leading expertise of Health Data Research UK, University of Edinburgh, LifeArc, Eisai and Gates Ventures

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