Laura Thomas wins Health & Safety lawyer of the year
Laura Thomas, head of the Health & Safety team at leading East of England law firm Birketts LLP has won Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards Health & Safety Lawyer of the year 2013.
Nobel Prize for eLife Editor-in-Chief
eLife, the open-access journal for outstanding advances in life science and biomedicine, is delighted to congratulate its Editor-in-Chief Randy Schekman on being awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He shares the prize with James Rothman and Thomas Südhof for their “discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells”.
Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust launches new £10 million campaign to transform cancer services
Today (Wednesday 9 October) Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT), the dedicated charity for Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie hospitals, is launching ACT on Cancer – a new £10 million campaign to transform cancer services at Addenbrooke’s.
Gartner identifies the top 10 strategic technology trends for 2014
Orlando, Florida--(BUSINESS WIRE) Gartner, Inc. today highlighted the top ten technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organisations in 2014. Analysts presented their findings during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, currently underway in Florida.
Bango and MMIT introduce M-Iflọ – the solution to Africa’s complex mobile payment landscape
Bango and MMIT have released M-Iflọ, a safe payment solution that enables online transactions for digital content. M-Iflọ navigates the complex mobile payment environment in Sub-Saharan Africa and is tailored to the needs of the industry leaders in mobile content.
Putting a price on our future: sustainability and the business agenda
Helping big businesses consider their impact on the environment is leading to a re-evaluation of activities to combine profitability with sustainability.
Comms-Solve case study: Milton Keynes Council
Comms-Solve has a fantastic relationship with Milton Keynes Council. Working closely for three years now, Comms-Solve is constantly striving to provide them with the best and most efficient communication structure tailored to their individual specific needs.
PsychologyOnline launches Thinkwell™
PsychologyOnline, the UK’s leading provider of live online one-to-one psychological therapy, has this week launched its new private therapy site – Thinkwell™. Building on its success of providing online therapy within the NHS, PsychologyOnline has expanded its service to cover people who prefer to purchase therapy directly. This includes anybody living in an area where PsychologyOnline has not…
Mosaic3DX 2013 welcomes Unity3D
Unity Technologies, the company behind Unity3D, one of the gaming and simulation industry's most popular authoring applications, will be joining Mosaic3DX 2013.
Birketts has a really cheesy night
The Birketts’ 150th cheese tasting event was a great success, with 30 local professionals attending the event, raising £247.81 for St Elizabeth Hospice.
How to get the most out of networking events
This is your chance to learn how to enjoy a networking event - and how to be memorable.
Cambridge leaders feature in HVM Graphene Conference line-up in one month!
HVM Graphene 2013 on 5 November in Cambridge is a commercially-focused event on the functional material graphene and key areas of application and product development roadmaps including functional (nano)-materials; electronics, photonics and optronics; and bio-applications.
CEM is a key metric for operators, but they need a framework to make it happen
Communications service providers have significant scope for improving customer satisfaction by implementing new technology and quantifying expected benefits.
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for theory behind Higgs boson
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today (Tuesday) awarded Professors Peter Higgs and François Englert the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1964 prediction of a new sub-atomic ‘elementary’ particle - known as the Higgs boson - confirmed to exist in the summer of last year by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), described as the world’s largest science experiment, following a…
World Sight Day - a coffee fixes-all
Have you ever thought you could achieve more from your morning coffee, other than making yourself a little more alert? Well, now you can…
EnSilica and Kili Technology collaboration delivers FIPS-compliant secure processor IC
Kili 3.1 dual eSi-3250-based processor with 1MB of embedded Flash, USB and NFC connectivity meets FIPS 140-2 Level 3 requirements and targets secure payment, authentication and identity applications.
Norwich-Cambridge Agri-tech Cluster launches this week
Agricultural technology or ‘Agri-tech’ is coming to the top of the agenda, as Lord Sainsbury launches the new Norwich-Cambridge Agri-tech Cluster in Cambridge this week.
News for schoolchildren from The Travel Clinic Ltd
Are you a teacher or parent of a child who is travelling with a school?
Centroprojekt adopts AVEVA solutions for Power and Pulp & Paper projects
AVEVA announced today that Centroprojekt, an engineering company specialising in water, air and solid waste treatment solutions, has selected AVEVA PDMS software for basic engineering and detailed design on major projects including a large pulp and paper plant, and a thermal power station. AVEVA technology is widely used by the power industry around the world, but this is the first time that it…
Huppert fights on to stop forced sale of Arts Picturehouse
Cambridge MP Julian Huppert has vowed to fight on to stop the forced sale of the city’s Arts Picturehouse after the Competition Commission’s ruling.
Horizon Discovery and Blueprint Medicines enter oncology research service agreement
Horizon Discovery, a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has signed a research service agreement with Blueprint Medicines Corp., a patient-driven oncology company developing highly selective kinase inhibitors for genomically defined cancer subsets.
Sartorius Group announces £28 million offer to acquire TAP Biosystems Group plc
Goettingen...Sartorius, a leading international laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment provider, yesterday (Monday) announced that its subgroup Sartorius Stedim Biotech has made a cash offer to acquire the UK company TAP Biosystems Group plc through its wholly owned subsidiary, Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH.
Local employers head back to school
It was back to school for a team of volunteers from a range of Cambridge businesses last week when 15 professionals took part in careers-related learning workshops for years 8 and 11 at Impington Village College.
Engineering Department wins Athena SWAN equality award
Cambridge University's Department of Engineering is proud to announce that it has won an Athena SWAN bronze award. The Athena SWAN Awards recognise success in developing employment practices to further and support the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) departments in higher education.
Gene variant linked to prognosis in inflammatory diseases
Researchers have identified a gene that is linked to long term disease outcome in Crohn's disease, a common inflammatory bowel disorder, and rheumatoid arthritis. The findings reveal targets that could be exploited for new treatments