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Synexa Life Sciences

Synexa Life Sciences is a biomarker and bioanalytical lab CRO, specialising in the development, validation and delivery of a wide range of complex and custom-designed assays.

With a team of over 200 staff across three global laboratory locations; Manchester, Turku (Finland) and Cape Town, we provide innovative solutions to support our customers to achieve their clinical milestones.

Our main areas of expertise include biomarker identification and development, large and small molecule clinical bioanalysis, (soluble) biomarker analysis (utilising MSD, LC-MS/MS, ELISA, RIA, fluorescence and luminescence-based technologies), cell biology (including flow cytometry, ELISpot and Fluorospot) and genomic services to support clinical trials and translational studies.

We pride ourselves on our deep scientific expertise and ability to tackle complex problems, translating them into robust and reliable assays to support clinical trial sample analysis.

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Manufacturing
Drugmakers Hail Early Wins in AI-Driven Transformation of Manufacturing
Companies have claimed improvements to yield, batch consistency and output while acknowledging the risks and challenges created by the technology.
August 26, 2025
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Nick Paul Taylor
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IPO
Biotech Finally Has an IPO After Months-Long Freeze
LB Pharma will test the IPO market to seek funding for a Phase III-ready schizophrenia asset.
August 25, 2025
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Annalee Armstrong
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Acquisitions
Unswayed by Cerevel Failure, AbbVie Buys Gilgamesh’s Depression Drug for $1.2B
The deal extends AbbVie’s commitment to the psychedelics space and depression, after emraclidine’s high-profile flop in schizophrenia last November.
August 25, 2025
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3 min read
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Annalee Armstrong
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Startups
Arnatar Debuts With $52M To Advance RNA Therapies That Go Beyond Silencing
Arnatar is developing ART4, an antisense oligonucleotide that ups the expression of its target protein to treat a rare disease called Alagille syndrome.
August 25, 2025
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2 min read
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Tristan Manalac
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Government
HHS Will No Longer Recognize Employee Unions
Thousands of employees across the Department of Health and Human Services are set to lose their collective bargaining rights in a move that American Federation of Government Employees national president Everett Kelley called “illegal and immoral.”
August 25, 2025
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Tristan Manalac
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Vaccines
FDA Pulls Valneva’s Chikungunya Shot From Market Citing ‘Serious Safety Concerns’
Earlier this month, the FDA backed off on a pause in shipments of the chikungunya vaccine Ixchiq to older adults. Now, the regulator has reversed course.
August 25, 2025
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Tristan Manalac
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Regulatory
FDA To Publish Drug-Related Adverse Event Reports Daily
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System, which Commissioner Marty Makary called “clunky,” previously published updates on a quarterly basis.
August 25, 2025
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Tristan Manalac
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Obesity
Weight-Loss Wasteland: 5 Obesity Assets That Failed
The mad rush for safe and effective obesity drugs has winners—including Eli Lilly’s Zepbound and Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy—and losers. Here are five molecules that never made it to the market.
August 25, 2025
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Tristan Manalac
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Weight loss
Which Weight Loss Treatments Will Be Most Effective?
While it’s impossible to make apples-to-apples comparisons of the many obesity candidates with so many differences across clinical trials, we at BioSpace are giving it our best shot.
August 22, 2025
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Annalee Armstrong
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Press Releases
Waters Sets a New Benchmark for Robustness and Sensitivity for High-Throughput Labs with the Xevo TQ Absolute XR Mass Spectrometer
June 2, 2025
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BioMidwest
Inotiv, Inc. Announces New Site Openings and Expansions Supporting Additional Capacity and Service Offerings
December 8, 2022
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Business
Parexel Announces Strategic Collaboration with Synexa Life Sciences and Drawbridge Health for COVID-19 Clinical Serology Testing Solution
November 2, 2020
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