BIT BIO SECURES $41.5 MILLION OF FUNDING FROM TOP LIFE SCIENCES INVESTORS Bit Bio, a synthetic biology company combining data science and biology to code cells for the wellbeing of humanity, has announced the close of a $41.5 million Series A investment, bringing the company’s [...]
CLOSED: Brain Injury MIC COVID-19 Challenge
Covid-19 Challenge Closed: The Brain MIC has been pleased with the expressions of interests received through this open challenge however, as the country re-emerges with easing of lockdown it is the right time to close this particular challenge. Brain Injury MIC COVID-19 Challenge Recognising [...]
Open Funding Call: COVID-19 Research Programme
The Health Foundation has launched a new research programme, which seeks to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in two distinct areas. This programme aligns with their strategic priorities and complements the existing research funding landscape. The COVID-19 Research Programme will prioritise funding [...]
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Seedcorn Funding Competition 2020
Seedcorn Funding Competition 2020 has been deferred due to COVID-19 pandemic In view of the current situation that we are all now facing, the NIHR Brain Injury MedTech Co-operative has decided to defer the launch of the Seedcorn Funding Competition. Please, revisit the webpage [...]
NIHR Response to COVID-19
https://www.nihr.ac.uk/covid-19/ Other current COVID-19 Funding Opportunities: Testing Methods Sourcing Platform https://testingmethods.crowdicity.com Platform in partnership between the Department of Health and Social Care, the UK Bioindustry Association, British In Vitro Diagnostics Association and the Royal College of Pathologists. COVID-19 and mitigating impact on health [...]
CORSAIR: COvid-19 Related Service Adjustment In Referral practice
Following the national prioritisation process established by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic and the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust guidelines to help researchers delivering Covid-19 studies, the NIHR Brain Injury MedTech Co-operative has [...]
Myelopathy.org awarded a Points of Light by Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Dr Mark Kotter and Dr Benjamin Davies, from Cambridge, and Iwan Sandler, from South Wales, founded ‘Myelopathy.org’, a pioneering charity that is driving scientific research and support for sufferers of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy (CSM), a little known degenerative condition which causes pain and loss [...]
Queen’s New Year Honours List 2020: Professor Pickard awarded a CBE!
The New Year Honours list, published on Saturday 29 December, recognises the outstanding achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom. Amongst the UK science leaders, researchers and university administrators celebrated in this year list, Professor (Emeritus) John Pickard was awarded [...]
Dr Ari Ercole awarded a Digital Healthcare Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr Ari Ercole who has been awarded one of 17 Health Education England 'Topol' Digital Healthcare Fellowships. Dr Ercole’s research has focussed on digital biomarkers and applications of statistical and machine learning to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and perioperative routinely collected data. [...]
EnterpriseTECH now Open!
Are you a PhD, postdoc, early career academic or research-related member of staff at the School of Technology, the School of Physical Sciences, the School of Biological Sciences; or the School of Clinical Medicine? Would you like the opportunity to develop skills in entrepreneurship while [...]