Full-service law firm Shakespeare Martineau has grown its East Midlands-based corporate team with a trio of hires. Joining the firm as an associate in Leicester is Raksha Agarwal. Solicitors Renee Freeman and Aryaan Bassi will both be based in Nottingham. Raksha qualified as a solicitor in 2020 at Clarke Willmott,...
V Formation strengthens team with business development hire
East Midlands marketing and PR agency, V Formation, has announced the appointment of Senita Vohra-Copley in the newly established role of Business Development Manager. With over 15 years’ expertise in professional services marketing, Senita began her career at audit, tax and consulting adviser RSM Tenon and Nottingham law firm Berryman...
Mental Health Awareness Week 2024
Mental Health Awareness Week 2024 is dedicated to increasing movement YOUR way, this doesn’t have to mean excessive cardio. Instead think about small ways you can increase your time moving each day in the workplace, that will soon add up. Why is increasing movement important? Recent evidence is showing that...
Winners of the Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2024 revealed
Nine of the most exceptional and innovative life sciences and medtech companies and industry collaborations from across the Midlands have been recognised as winners of the Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2024. Held at the prestigious Athena in Leicester on 9 May, the Business Awards 2024 were Medilink Midlands’ most spectacular...
Medilink Midlands launches its Strategic Innovation Gateway series (SIG)
The first Strategic Innovation Gateway (SIG) got underway with a hugely successful, extremely well-attended event held on the 1st May 2024 at Charnwood Campus, focused on Rehabilitation Technologies. CEO of Medilink Midlands, Melanie Davidson, welcomed everyone to the event and introduced the speakers from Loughborough University, University of Nottingham and Nottingham...
Advanced Precision Technologies achieves ISO accreditations
An engineering company in Chatteris is celebrating after achieving not one, but two new ISO accreditations. Advanced Precision Technologies, which manufactures complex components for the motorsport and medical sectors using 5-axis CNC machining, has been awarded ISO 9001 Quality Management System and ISO 14001 Environmental Management System accreditations. The accreditations...
Warwick Antimicrobial Screening Facility: Tackling antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is on the rise and poses a significant threat to global health, with the risk of modern medicines becoming ineffective. There is an extensive need for new antimicrobials to treat both bacterial and fungal infections. The Antimicrobial Screening Facility at the University of Warwick is primed to support AMR...
Aston Vision Sciences featured in Optometry Today
Aston Vision Sciences was featured in Optometry Today discussing the company’s fluorescein filter at 100% Optical. Click here or read below to learn more. Representative from Aston Vision Sciences attended 100% Optical to share its newly launched fluorescein filter, a product designed to support practitioners when observing fluorescein in patients’...
Yvonne Johnson elected as Barker Brettell’s managing partner
Barker Brettell, the Birmingham-headquartered intellectual property (IP) specialist, has announced that Yvonne Johnson has been elected as the firm’s new managing partner. Yvonne joined Barker Brettell in 2001 whilst training to become a UK and European patent attorney and qualified in 2004. She quickly displayed considerable talent in oppositions and...
University of Oxford spin-out HydRegen revealed as winner of ‘Golden Ticket’ programme for planetary health innovations
University of Oxford spin-out HydRegen has been revealed as the winner of a programme designed to recognise innovations in planetary health created by Pioneer Group in partnership with CPI. The 2024 Golden Ticket programme was open to hydrogen and climate technology companies that are innovating solutions to some of the...