The JP Morgan (JPM) Conference, a staple of the life science sector and one of biotech’s biggest conferences, will be going virtual in January 2021 which has become something of a norm for events under Covid-19. One Nucleus has also been running its own BioWednesdays virtually and our first session of 2021 drew together a panel of experienced JPM Conference attendees to look at what to expect from a virtual JPM Week and what they would like to see for the future.
The panel was knowledgably chaired by Melanie Toyne-Sewell, Managing Partner, Instinctif Partners - Life Sciences. The…
The lunchtime panel discussion at Genesis Digital 2020 will discuss the question ‘Has Covid-19 make it easier or harder to create a biotech company?' In advance of this, science writer Dr Clare Sansom caught up with one of the panellists, Dr Anne Lane. Dr Lane is CEO of UCL’s commercialisation company, UCLB.
Q. How has COVID-19 changed the way that UCLB operates? What has been hardest, and has anything been easier?
A. Surprisingly little has actually changed. Our work is progressing quite smoothly even though we are all working from home. We all miss informal interactions with our academics…
The Marketing Science Podcast is a series of podcasts for sales and marketing professionals working in Science, Engineering and Healthcare. On this episode, Tony Jones, joined AZoNetwork to share insights and experience from his time as CEO of One Nucleus.
Below is an adapted transcript from the podcast, which you can listen to here.
Can you take us through your career journey from being a PhD in biochemistry to becoming the CEO of one of the largest life science networks in the U.K?
I originally trained as a scientist and I was working in cancer research. Over the course of my…
Online gatherings are a bit like marmite, and it is fair to say they have the life science community divided. However, during uncertain times when face-to-face networking is not possible, there is the option to move online or cancel altogether.
‘My Question is…’ was the title for an online networking event that One Nucleus held on 26 October 2020. You could say, to some extent, it was experimental, but based on feedback from our members about the aspects that they missed or welcomed most about online meetings compared to face-to-face. The results were unsurprising, and…
Introduction:
On the 1st July 2020, the UK Government published its UK Research and Development Roadmap that reaffirmed their commitment to increasing UK investment in R&D to 2.4% of GDP by 2027 and to increase public funding for R&D to £22 billion per year by 2024/25. Deploying such investment to ensure the UK remains a powerhouse of innovation and improving the health, wellbeing and prosperity of UK citizens. Grand aspirations but the Roadmap set out challenges that must be faced to deliver those outcomes. Among these, was posing of the questions “…
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown everything into flux. Communications and marketing have been no exception. With both staff and customers being largely remote, conferences and events disrupted, and a growing sense of product apathy among the public, companies have a serious communications hurdle to overcome. Many companies have seen this as an opportunity to update their websites and refocus their communications, both internal and external.
As advertising and marketing budgets are down for almost everyone, organisations are turning to low cost ways to promote themselves, such as social media…
When delegates returned from the 38th annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Diego in mid-January this year, few can have imagined just how fast, and how dramatically, the biotech industry was about to change. Fewer than 10,000 cases of COVID-19 had been reported to the WHO by the end of that month, and few, other than infectious disease specialists, were taking very much notice of those reports. Dave Mead, director of a biotech company based near Cambridge, Isogenica, and a delegate at the JP Morgan event, remembers the abruptness of the change. “By early February we in…
That was the title of a panel discussion held during One Nucleus’ Life Science Leadership meeting at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in central London on 8 March this year supported by One Nucleus partners Cerba Research. It was, therefore, probably one of the last life sciences meetings to be held in the UK before we belatedly entered our coronavirus lockdown. Some delegates seemed rather nervous about mingling over the excellent buffet lunch, but there were few other signs of the tsunami of change that was about to engulf the industry. It was a fascinating meeting, packed with insights that will…
The Science of Podcasts
So you’ve listened to a few podcasts on the daily commute (well, at least back when we all used to commute!) and thought we could do that in Life Sciences! Then you pause and think about the amount of work involved… How many episodes would we do? Who would be good on the show? How would we interview our guys across the pond?
Whilst it may appear daunting at first, compounded by the difficulties encountered by social distancing, here is a step by step guide to how to run your podcast.
Objectives
There are generally a few different reasons why people go to the trouble…
For the long-term storage of biological samples at -80oC, historically there has only been one option: upright, mechanical compressor-based sample freezers. However nitrogen vapour freezers have arrived as an alternative, with no liquid nitrogen held within the freezer, these vary from the traditional cryogenic liquid nitrogen freezers.
Whether the samples in question are stem cells, reproductive cells or other biological samples, every researcher will have their preferred storage method. But which is best?
What is the difference between nitrogen vapour and mechanical freezers?…