ProAxsis received an Invest NI Grant for Research and Development, supporting the company to develop new products using its innovative ProteaseTag® technology. The grant is part financed under the European Union’s Investment for Growth and Jobs Programme for Northern Ireland. The project, entitled “The development of ProteaseTags® for deubiquitinases (DUBs): innovative tools for biomarker identification and drug discovery in oncology”, will be over the next 12 months and aims to allow the design and synthesis of peptide-based inhibitors for the DUBs family, implemented followed by an assessment of their incorporation in to prototype activity-based immunoassay formats. (June 2018)