Wayne Davies, BWD CEO visits companies in the Boston area and attends the Neurodegeneration forum in Cambridge Mass.
10 Janaury 2010
Brainwave-Discovery Ltd engage with UKTI to make initial contacts into the east coast US pharamaceutical and biotechnology markets with first contacts in the Boston, New Jersey and New York areas.
Brainwave-Discovery Ltd is reviewed by Scottish Enterprise and rated as having high growth potential. Sarah Kenhard is appointed as our account manager.
1 June 2009
Brainwave-Discovery Ltd presents at EPIS 2009
24 February 2009
The Scotsman:
Brainwave-Discovery was used as an example of how the ProspeKT programme at the School of Informatics has been supporting new businesses get started.
5 February 2009
Brainwave-Discovery Ltd has been selected to present its portfolio of drug discovery servicesto UK MPs and Peers at Westminster as part of the 50th aniversary of the 3Rs, The 3Rs today in March 2009.
Brainwave Discovery was discussed in two UK news articles discussing the science and its potential for replacing some forms of animal studies. BWD would like to point out that its humanisation system combined with its assays provide a new discovery method that works well alongside existing R&D programmes and provides a fast track to human relevant data for CNS discovery.
BWD cannot replace all animal experiments but it can reduce the numbers required by refining early stage brain information.
3 September 2008
Brainwave-Discovery was showcased during the opening of the new Informatics Forum at the University of Edinburgh. The opening event was used to highlight over 40 new high-tech business ventures associated with the School.
8 June 2008
A central hypothesis behind Brainwave science is that the fly and mammal nervous systems are fundamentally similar and that differences can be addressed by adding a few extra human molecules. This is supported by the first proteomic analysis of the fly brain in the research article including Brainwave scientists: Emes et al. (2008) Evolutionary expansion and anatomical specialization of synapse proteome complexity. Nature Neuroscience 11, 799 - 806.
23 April 2008
Brainwave-Discovery Founders, Wayne Davies (left) and Douglas Armstrong (right) present BWD at the Edinburgh VC event, a gathering of representatives from over $2.5Bn worth of investment funds.
