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BIVDA attends APPG on Medical research and the Academy of Medical joint reception

The reception was held to recognise the vital contributions from life sciences in the response to the pandemic across academia and industry. There was a particular focus on the role that vaccines played but diagnostics was not forgotten! The Chair of the APPG, Chris Green MP, welcomed all of the guests with speeches following from Dame Sarah Gilbert and Professor…
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March 18, 2022
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IBMS Congress

As always, it was fantastic to see so many familiar faces coming by to say hello, and talk about some of the issues facing them, particularly after a couple years of virtual life! IBMS felt bigger and better than ever, with even more exhibitors and talks that any other year. The programme included an all-star cast, with presentations from Lord…
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March 18, 2022
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Travel survey and BIVDA meetings

We are looking forward to our AV/VC installation next week which should significantly improve the blended experience for us all. All of our meetings are scheduled to be blended unless advertised otherwise. All of our planned meetings for this year are scheduled already and can be found on the Eventbrite page and the upcoming ones are at the bottom of…
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March 18, 2022
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SAVE THE DATE! – Joint Working Party Seminar

For BIVDA’s 30th Anniversary year we are excited to be holding a working party seminar, MGM and Celebration dinner leading into our annual Regulatory Affairs Seminar on Wednesday 12th October 2022! The Regulatory Affairs Seminar will then follow the first days events on the following days 13th-14th October 2022. We will be holding working party autumn meetings on Wednesday 12th…
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March 18, 2022
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Ukraine Update

BIVDA approached the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) directly to ask how member companies can best provide equipment to the people of Ukraine if they were able to. The DHSC responded by requesting a comprehensive list of items available for donation from interested member companies with details regarding: types of tests for donation, the number of tests available,…
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March 18, 2022
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BIVDA attends the Diagnostics Strategy Ministerial Roundtable event

This week, Doris-Ann attended a Ministerial Roundtable event on the upcoming Diagnostics Strategy, an important plan for the future of UK diagnostics. In a pre-meet discussion the week before, it was decided that a Roundtable is the most effective and favoured manner of engaging with Government ministers on the Strategy. In June 2021 the Elective Recovery Team was tasked with…
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March 18, 2022
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BIVDA AGM – Thursday 24 March 2022

This is the official Annual General Meeting of the Association. It is also BIVDA’s 30th Anniversary! This will be our Chairman, Darren Stenlake’s, last meeting as Chair having contributed a huge amount in leadership and energy over the last 3 years and he will hand over to Chair elect, Helen Tucker from ThermoFisher. As well as the formal business of…
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March 18, 2022