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Experience the ‘Agile’ way of thinking in this practical taster session and find out how Agile project management can boost efficiency, help reduce costs and promote continuous improvement. The session is planned for Thursday July 6 at St John's Innovation Centre, Cambridge. Qualified Scrum Master and Scrum Coach from Hethel Innovation, Sam Payne, will lead you through the basic principles of ‘Agile’ project management to give you an insight into the Agile approach to achieving your business goals. Time for networking has been built in after the session, so you can catch up with…
Attracting and retaining talent in STEM is business critical. According to almost three-quarters of global senior leaders, talent and skills shortages are the greatest barrier to business strategy over the next 12 months. In this competitive and skills-short market, understanding current salary levels can unlock better recruitment outcomes faster to help you retain, and attract the most skilled talent. In this infographic, in association with New Scientist Jobs, we surveyed 4,186 industry professionals to gain a unique insight into salaries across the UK, Europe and USA. Use this to improve…
Kadans Science Partner will add Windrush Innovation Centre in Oxford, UK to its Pan-European portfolio. The asset will be freehold acquired from Tozi Limited. Kadans intends to demolish the existing building and create over 60,000 sq ft of new high specification laboratory and office space in partnership with the tenant, Oxford Biomedica. Oxford is a global centre of excellence in life science innovation. The cluster is anchored by the University of Oxford which was recently named the number 1 university in the world (Times World University Ranking 2022). The Oxford cluster spans a whole…
PharmEnable Closes $7.5M Financing led by MP Healthcare to Develop Next Generation of Small Molecule Drugs to Treat Cancer and Neurological Diseases $7.5M Pre-Series A financing led by new investor MP Healthcare, the venture arm of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Group. Existing investors Cambridge Enterprise, University of Cambridge Enterprise Fund VIII, managed by Parkwalk Advisors Heyford Trust, o2h Ventures, Martlet Capital, Arrowfield Capital, Wren Capital and experienced life sciences angel investors including Jonathan Milner also participated PharmEnable has developed a proprietary drug…
YouGov, on behalf of Bidwells, are carrying out a survey of the Tech sector. The purpose of the study is to help the real estate sector and policy makers understand the requirements and preferences of organisations so they might better provide property and infrastructure for your industry in the future. The survey looks at the location and property requirements of the tech sector overall. There are also some additional questions for companies, currently or potentially, working in the areas of health and life sciences. The results of the survey will be published in July and will be made…
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The University of Birmingham’s Clinical Immunology Service (CIS) is soon to become the anchor tenant at the forthcoming Precision Health Technology Accelerator (PHTA), after signing up to occupy ~10,000 sq ft of the custom-built flagship research facility. Providing a comprehensive range of accredited lab services to facilitate the diagnosis of autoimmune and neuroimmunological disease, blood cancers, primary and secondary immunodeficiency, infections and allergy, the CIS receives more than 100,000 blood, marrow, urine and other samples per year. The CIS team offers the only service of its…
Early-stage life sciences enterprises are set to benefit from a unique new collaboration between Birmingham’s Precision Health Technologies Accelerator (PHTA) and Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE). The partnership will focus on helping high-growth health technology and life sciences companies to scale, primarily through access to high-quality lab and innovation space, while also catalysing cross-regional collaboration between academics and enterprises. PHTA is the University of Birmingham (UoB)’s flagship life sciences research accelerator, where entrepreneurs, start-ups and scale-ups…
Stevenage, 18th May, 2023 – Kadans Science Partner (Kadans), the European leader in developing science and technology real estate, today announces the launch of Sycamore House, a new laboratory and office facility for innovative, high-growth life science companies and Kadans’ first completed development in the UK. By adding Sycamore House to the portfolio, Kadans is furthering its goal to create one strong knowledge-sharing ecosystem of science parks across Europe. Their portfolio now comprises over 45 buildings and numerous projects under development in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom,…
  Pharmanovia’s leading medicine brands to be combined with Closed Loop Medicine’s technology to provide dose optimized personalized therapies Global (ex-US) co-development and commercialization partnership to initially focus on next-generation drug + software product solutions for the treatment of hypertension   London and Basildon, UK, 17 May 2023: Closed Loop Medicine Ltd, a leading TechBio company, developing combination prescription drug plus software therapy products that enable personalized dose optimization, and Pharmanovia, a global pharmaceutical company that…