Whether it’s your first time or your fifth, lab relocation is no walk in the park. There are a lot of expensive, complicated balls to juggle and what you don’t know can cause serious problems down the line. In a recent webinar, Nathan Foorman, facilities operations and engineering expert, and Lindsey Fitzgerald, ZAGENO senior account executive, hosted biotech and pharma lab managers and procurement for a deep dive into lab move best practices. Using insights gained from numerous moves, they shared tips to sidestep common pitfalls and prevent budget-draining, time-wasting mistakes.
Common Lab…
Guest blog by Nick Hutchinson, Associate Vice President Business Development, Just - Evotec BiologicsBallroom J.POD® Redmond, WA. Just – Evotec Biologics
You would be forgiven for thinking that little has changed in biomanufacturing in the past 20 years. The sector is stuck using the same production methods and facility designs that emerged at the turn of the century. These approaches create risks and inefficiencies in the production pipeline, including:
High manufacturing costs
Difficulty in adapting to demand
Expensive and risk-prone commercial development process
A lack of innovation in…
One Nucleus is always conscious that our member companies are constantly mindful of the need to be international given the nature of the life sciences sector, innovation and the unmet medical needs they seek to address.
Supporting our members in their international endeavours takes many forms that are more obvious, such as those described below. Complementing these more direct interventions however is something we do not often discuss or highlight which is the efforts to enable our members to involve their network neighbours in their cause, recruiting them as their ambassadors when they are…
Meeting Key Performance Indicators
by Tony Jones, CEO, One Nucleus
When we think about life sciences at a company, cluster or industry level, the overriding goal of all stakeholders is value creation. How one defines value or performance is perspective dependent to a large degree depending on an individual’s role. For some it is the creation of monetary value in terms of whether there is a return on investment. For some it will be the scientific and technical value of progressing a hypothesis-driven innovation to proof-of-concept and knowledge generation, and some will look at…
Guest blog by Romy Frow, Travel Counsellors
Traveling for business or leisure can be an exciting and enriching experience. However, with the demands of planning, organizing, and executing a successful trip, the process can quickly become overwhelming. Whether you're organizing travel for an entire team, managing your own corporate trips, or even planning a group vacation, a Travel Management Company (TMC) can be your ultimate solution. Here’s why you should consider using Travel counsellors for Business as your TMC for your next journey:
1. Expert Guidance and Professional…
by Tony Jones, CEO, One Nucleus
The One Nucleus goal is to offer effective support to life science companies across the trinity of key requirements for success: Technology, Money and People.
Most life science companies engage with organisations such as One Nucleus on a need basis. Whether that need is support in securing deals, raising profile, designing lab space, staff development, or other. Often, that engagement overlooks the much broader support mechanisms available to the business and colleagues, so in this blog, I will test your knowledge of what you know about One Nucleus with…
Brilliant organisations like One Nucleus exist to support economic growth across the life sciences and associated sectors in the UK; whether it’s introductions to help secure investment, fostering collaboration with universities, help with recruiting the best teams to propel your venture forwards or, perhaps more importantly, providing a network of like-minded people and a forum to share best practice and bounce ideas around.
Your sales and marketing teams are an integral part of your business, but there is currently a large gap in terms of support for them.
This is where SAMPS (sales and…
A round-up of the One Nucleus Annual Award ambitions and shortlisted entries ahead of the celebratory dinner on 27 March 2025 in London.
By Tony Jones, CEO, One Nucleus
Announcing the Shortlist for the One Nucleus Awards 2025!We’re thrilled to unveil the finalists for this year’s One Nucleus Awards, celebrating outstanding progress across R&D, investment, services, and innovation. These awards recognise the pioneers and trailblazers shaping the future of life sciences.
The One Nucleus Annual Awards, from their inception, were created to place excellence in the spotlight from across the…
At our Genesis 2024 fringe event on 5 December, Aon’s Suzanne Courtney, Human Capital Industry Leader, Life Sciences, EMEA, together with Matt Robinson, Life Science Industry Leader and Keaton Hoffman, Partner, Life Sciences, EMEA, discussed the impact of the EU’s upcoming Pay Transparency Directive and the lessons we can learn from it.
A major talent trend for the life sciences sector is the drive towards pay transparency. The EU's upcoming directive mandating pay equity, due to go live in June 2026, is a key force behind the target to reduce…
What impact will new EU legislation have on pay transparency and ESG reporting? At Aon’s fringe event at Genesis 2024 in December, Aon’s Keaton Hoffman – Partner, Executive Compensation, Talent Solutions and Matthew Robinson – Life Science Industry Leader (Aon UK), explored the evolving role of environmental, social and governance (ESG) in executive incentives with the implementation of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
European Life Science companies are busy getting to grips with the EU’s CSRD - a reporting structure that’s reshaping ESG practices,…