Future Medicines Café

Join the Future Medicines Café, an online event series bringing together innovators, researchers, clinicians, and industry leaders to explore the cutting edge of life medicines and medicines manufacturing in the UK. These informal online cafes showcase emerging innovations across the medicines development pipeline – from discovery and development, through to manufacturing, supply and patient access – creating space for open discussion, shared learning and building new connections across the ecosystem.

This event is part of a series

When

5 February, 19 February, 5 March and 18 March 2026

Location

Online
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Medicines and medicines manufacturing are central to the UK’s ambition to remain a global leader in life sciences, while strengthening supply chain resilience, improving patient outcomes, embed sustainable practices and drive economic growth. Advances in manufacturing technologies, digitalisation, and process innovation are critical to enabling faster, more efficient, and more sustainable production of medicines.

The Future Medicines Café Series provides a platform to explore how innovation in medicines manufacturing can support better health outcomes, UK competitiveness, and a more resilient healthcare system through conversations with innovative companies working in this space.

 

Upcoming event themes and dates

Each Café will feature a brief presentation from a business or innovator followed by an open Q&A, designed to be accessible and engaging for attendees from across the sector. Themes may cover emerging scientific advances, clinical translation, regulatory innovation, patient-centric technologies, and other innovation opportunities. Upcoming dates and topics will be announced soon, offering regular opportunities to connect with others shaping the future of medicines and health innovation.

  • Cell culture media is essential to biomanufacturing, yet development remains slow and costly. This talk explores how Multus’ MediOP™ platform combines AI, automation, and biological expertise to compress formulation timelines from years to months, reduce costs, and deliver media tailored to specific cells.

  • Fuse DX have developed a versatile platform for rapid onsite testing across Pharma, Food and Veterinary sectors, Flip delivers definitive laboratory quality results for the detection of mycoplasm and other industrial contaminants in an easy-to-use, low-cost device without any specialist equipment.

  • The OneSC platform is a professional solution that enables pharmaceutical companies to optimise and streamline their manufacturing, packaging and release-to-market processes. The platform integrates specially designed automated technologies that considerably reduce the time, labour and potential for human error involved in these processes.

  • Join us for this Café session led by Inspiralis

We’re particularly interested in themes

We’re particularly interested in themes aligned with the UK’s Life Sciences Sector Plan priorities, including world-class research and development, scaling innovative life sciences companies in the UK, accelerating patient access to novel therapies and technologies, digital health and data-driven approaches, advanced manufacturing and showcasing collaborative models that have bridged science, healthcare and industry.

 

Join as an attendee

Want to stay ahead of the curve in new innovations within drug development and medicines manufacturing? Register now to attend and connect with the people shaping medicines in the UK.

Want to speak in the Future Medicines Café?

Drop me an email – owen.burbidge@iukbc.org.uk – and we can have a chat.

Accessibility and Inclusion

We are committed to ensuring our events are accessible for all.

If you experience any barriers to registering, for any reason, please contact us by email: enquiries@iukbc.org.uk or phone: +44 03333 403250 and we will support your registration.

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