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<p>BIRAX will soon have funded 19 collaborative research projects focused on regenerative
medicine and raised almost £10 million of funding, more than 90% of it from research
foundations and philanthropic donors. This year a major new initiative, BIRAX Ageing,
will launch which will be the main academic research theme for the next 4-5 years.</p><p>Principal
Investigators presented BIRAX supported research at 71 conferences and workshops to
over 21,000 Principal Investigators, postdoctoral students and students across 22
countries including the US, India, China, France, Japan, Germany, Sweden as well as
to audiences in the UK and Israel. To date, 27 scientific articles have been published
as a result of BIRAX projects and BIRAX funded research has been cited 635 times.</p><p>Three
of the seven BIRAX projects which concluded in 2016, have registered patents and two
project teams have been approached by biotech companies expressing an interest in
licensing their intellectual property. Three BIRAX projects have secured further funding
for research initiated under the BIRAX initiative.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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