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Extraordinary advances in the life sciences have great potential to improve our quality of life through better medicines and a cleaner environment. Biochemical Engineering provides the foundations for translating such exciting new discoveries into products and processes for improved health and wealth creation. . . At UCL, we offer education for undergraduates, postgraduates and industry professionals in our top-ranked department. Staff are engaged in cutting-edge research, both within the Department and as part of a number of European and international collaborations. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise 75% of Academic Staff were rated as World Leading or Internationally Excellent.
We provide an informed entry point into the University for companies, and can help potential partners define their interests, find the appropriate academic expertise, and identify opportunities for collaboration. We support the development of relationships between academics and industry, whether these are major multi-faceted collaborations with global companies or simply finding experts for specific one-off projects.. . RSD can identify opportunities for collaboration between business and academics and negotiate research contracts in exciting interdisciplinary areas, such as computational biology, nanoscience, energy and the environment.. . We work closely with University Departments that offer licences for intellectual property, graduate recruitment and executive education.. . We also coordinate the Corporate Liaison Programme, which enables companies to work with the University of Cambridge.. . Our team of Partnership Development Managers helps companies to navigate the University and build mutually beneficial relationships. For more information on working with the University in specialist industry sectors, email Dr Karen Smith ks390@cam.ac.uk or Mr Richard Reschen rfr20@rsd.cam.ac.uk
Essex is the number two university in the UK for the number of Innovate UK-funded projects, and ranks as the leading university in the East of England and London for leveraging R&D grant funding, to collaborate with businesses helping them to drive innovation, improve productivity and ultimately grow.
The university has expertise in the research areas of protein structure and the mechanisms of disease working to establish the link between structure and the physiological function of proteins with research spanning from individual atoms and isolated molecules to cellular biology approaches including pre-clinical models of cancer and immunology. Further fields of expertise are in genetics and computational biology with particular strengths in epigenetics and chromatin structure.
ValiRx Plc is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel technologies and products in oncology therapeutics and diagnostics. The product focus is in the epigenomic analysis and treatment of cancer, but the technologies can be applied to other fields as well, such as neurology and inflammatory diseases.. . The ValiRx management team comprises a mix of entrepreneurial scientists who are founders of a number of medical life sciences companies and industry-specific personnel, all with extensive experience in transferring technologies and products into the commercial arena to generate revenue and growth of shareholder value.
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VasoDynamics is a Stevenage and London based, clinical-stage pharmaceutical development company. We are solely focused on developing patient-friendly, cost-effective medicines to prevent the severe side-effects induced by anticancer therapies. Our programmes are designed to prevent the common complications of cancer therapy, including mouth ulceration, dermatitis, and (permanent) hair-loss. Our philosophy is to generate affordable medicines that enable cancer patients to tolerate widely used anticancer therapies, with the dual purpose of enhancing the efficacy of anti-cancer therapy and improving patients’ quality of life with cancer, without painful, traumatic or debilitating side-effects.
Venner Shipley is one of the leading firms of European patent and trademark attorneys, representing a broad range of clients including major domestic and international corporations, SMEs, universities and individual inventors. We provide a full range of services covering patents, trademarks, designs and copyright, domain names and all other aspects of intellectual property, in all areas of science, technology and design. We have a particularly strong team serving life science and healthcare companies. Our services extend beyond rights protection, to involvement in enforcement and licensing activities.
Vernalis Research develop and apply fragment and structure-based methods to solve problems in drug discovery, and have generated cell active lead compounds and development candidates against targets in oncology, neurodegeneration, anti-infectives and inflammation.
The Company balances an internal portfolio of drug discovery projects with fully integrated research collaborations on targets with pharmaceutical companies and academic partners. Its shared-risk approach ensures a high level of engagement from our scientists and rewards success. Current disclosed collaborations include those with Servier, Daiichi Sankyo, Lundbeck and Asahi Kasei Pharma, and they seek additional partnerships.
Vernalis Research also have an extensive portfolio of partnered and unpartnered drug candidates in pre-clinical and clinical development.
Somaserve is a UCL spin out, a uniquely positioned specialist reagent and pharma service business which exploits the proprietary polyNaut™ technology (a ‘bionic’ nanoparticle vesicle). The reagent products are highly differentiated and address an unfulfilled area in the live cell imaging market. The ‘fee for service’ offering solves molecule viability problems for clients presenting a new approach to drug discovery.
VirdisGroup is a leading executive search firm specialising in the LifeScience and Healthcare sectors. . Partnering with clients throughout the world, our focus is to identify, engage and help hire top talent from senior executive to board level. However, we support our partners in building their teams and capabilities throughout the organisation. We are respected for our strong international networks and knowledge.. We have direct experience within the following sectors:. Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Capital Investors, Universities, CROs, Government, Animal Health, Diagnostics, Healthcare Services, MedTech, Research Consortia, Public-Private Partnerships