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Aimed at early stage start ups within the Essex area, the Ambitious Essex Innovation Accelerator has been created to encourage and engage with new entrepreneurs and fledgling businesses looking to commercialise their innovations. Helping to establish the project is clinician, entrepreneur and healthcare provider, Dr Poobashni Govender who, having founded...

A Government Health Minister joined the first life sciences event of Leicestershire Innovation Festival 2024. Andrew Stephenson CBE MP visited Charnwood Campus to join more than 100 delegates considering innovation as a potential solution to health disparities and inequalities. Attendees included senior representatives from the NHS, as well as clinicians,...

Pioneer Group, a company combining laboratory development and operation with venture building, has teamed up with CPI, the independent deep tech innovation organisation, to launch a Golden Ticket programme for innovations in planetary health. The 2024 Golden Ticket Programme is open to hydrogen and climate technology companies that are innovating...

Social engineering attacks, also known as ‘human hacking’, are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with cybercriminals finding new in-roads to harvest sensitive data. Techniques such as phishing and spear phishing are responsible for the majority of social engineering cyber-attacks. They are designed to manipulate employees to share personal data or credentials, which...

Applications are now open for Medilink Midlands’ Business Awards which will once again celebrate the work and achievements of life sciences companies across the Midlands. With nine categories from Start-Up to Outstanding Achievement, the 2024 awards are set to be bigger and better than ever and will highlight some of...

The sale of a vast COVID-19 testing lab in the UK is an opportunity to develop the start-up ecosystem in the Midlands region. But what form of repurposing would serve the region best: a general life sciences hub, or a specialist research and innovation centre? Both options have been floated...

Medilink Midlands has been awarded the ‘We invest in people’ standard accreditation by Investors in People, the UK’s leading people management business improvement standard. The accolade means principles and practices around supporting people are in place at Medilink Midlands and everyone understands how to use them to make work better....

We hope you all had an enjoyable time over the holidays and, like us, are keen to see what 2024 has in store. To kick off the year, we wanted to highlight a few dates for your diaries. Firstly, we’re hosting our Annual Business Awards at the Athena, Leicester this...

The value of a well-managed connected device can be significant, to both individuals and businesses. So, it is no surprise that the connected device ecosystem is not only thriving but growing exponentially. In fact, McKinsey Global Institute is estimating that connected (IoT) products and services will generate between $5.5 trillion...

Pioneer Group, a company combining laboratory development and operation with venture building, is continuing its collaboration with Innovate UK by bringing its venture development ‘Launch Programme’ to the Exploit stage of Innovate UK’s ICURe programme. The Launch Programme welcomes invited life science founders from the ICURe Programme, as well as...