CBAMS, the edge-of-science venture whose monster scientific instrument helps drugs companies reduce the use of animals in pharmaceutical development and bring products to market faster, cheaper and safer, is coming home to York - and changing its name.
Its old title stands for the Centre for Biomedical Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, a 20-ton machine the size of two tennis courts which took two years to build at the Government's Central Science Laboratory at Sand Hutton.
The machine, which measures isotopes at individual atom level by generating millions of volts of electricity, stays at Sand Hutton, but administration of the York spin-out firm has now moved into the new Biocentre at York Science Park under its new title, Xceleron.
Professor Colin Garner, the firm's chief executive and founder, said: "This move will allow us much more interaction with other biomedical researchers, including those joining the new Hull-York Medical School.
Updated: 09:16 Tuesday, March 11, 2003
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