‘Keep your cool’ – advice for men wanting to be fathers
There are many ways to improve sperm health, advises specialist in male fertility ahead of Father’s Day .
Installed base management - The key to unlocking aftermarket revenue growth
Selling aftermarket products and services remains one of the most overlooked sources of revenue growth for equipment manufacturers. From spare parts and software upgrades to additional services and extended-warranty programs, these aftermarket opportunities potentially represent millions of pounds of untapped profits in both consumer and industrial sectors. The key to unlocking this veritable…
The elephant in the room: addressing device development challenges early on
Andrea Pybus says: I’ve often heard colleagues say that it would be the ‘challenge we didn’t anticipate, that catches us out’. I have certainly experienced this. But more often than not, the challenges or ‘project killers’ I have witnessed were identified early in the medical device programme. In this blog I discuss the reasons why unanswered questions asked at the start of a project can get…
Four steps to selecting the right device to deliver therapies
Charlotte Harris, Head of Front End Innovation at Team Consulting, discusses four steps that have to be taken when selecting the right drug delivery device for your chosen therapy.
Fix it before it’s broken
There’s a general principle in life that we adhere to.
CNN profiles CAMFED's Angeline Murimirwa in Changemakers series
CNN's African Voices Changemakers highlights the leadership of Angeline (Angie) Murimirwa, CAMFED’s Executive Director – Africa.
See you in Vegas?
The Marcus Evans Medical Device Manufacturing and R&D Summit will be live in Las Vegas from the 23rd-24th of June and we can’t wait to see you there.
Arecor announces exclusive collaboration with a top 5 global pharmaceutical company
Cambridge, UK - Arecor Therapeutics plc, the biopharmaceutical group advancing today’s therapies to enable healthier lives, announces that it has signed an exclusive formulation study collaboration with a top five global pharmaceutical company.
Cobot Taster Training at Productivity East - 6th July
Productivity East is excited to share details of the next date for our popular cobot taster sessions – Wednesday 6th July, 16:00 to 19:30.
Salaries increase as recruitment and retention become more difficult for accountancy firms in East Anglia
Accountancy training firm First Intuition has released the findings from its most recent salary survey of employers of accountants.
The Enterprise Centre, supporting the local business community
Would some form of a base in Norwich be useful for your company? Do you have colleagues who are Norfolk based and are finding continually working from home difficult, perhaps? Now could not be a better time to join our friendly and supportive community.
Global Access Diagnostics (GADx) formed to expand affordable access to advanced rapid diagnostic technologies
Bedford, UK - Global Access Health (GAH), a social enterprise dedicated to providing affordable medical products for global health, formally introduces its first portfolio company, Global Access Diagnostics (GADx). GADx has been created to address gaps in the global provision of diagnostics with a focus on expanding affordable access to quality tests.
Judging the UK Business Awards
The UK Business Awards take place on 1st and 7th July 2022. The awards showcase business achievements and best practices from companies across the UK, This year is special for us as Chris Dunn has been invited to join the judging panel.
seqWell appoints Dr Amy Liao to Board of Directors
Beverly, Mass – seqWell, a global provider of genomic library workflow solutions including the plexWell™ next-generation sequencing (NGS) multiplexing technology, announces the appointment of Dr Amy Liao to its Board. Amy joins the current Board of Directors, led by Chairman Paul McEwan. The appointment supports the commercial development of the Company’s existing and future products, following…
Springboard welcomes Ort JUMP student
Improving people’s lives around the world is important at Springboard; so important it forms one of Springboard’s 3 motivational pillars. One way that Springboard fulfils this motivation is by encouraging and supporting staff members with outreach activities and volunteering.
New visa route open for graduates
A new High Potential Individual (HPI) visa route has opened enabling recent graduates from eligible overseas universities to work in the UK without sponsorship.
Spirea raises £2.4M ($3M) to develop antibody drug conjugates in cancer
Cambridge - Spirea Limited, a Cambridge company created to advance a new generation of antibody drug conjugate (ADC) therapeutics, has announced that it has secured funding of £2.4 million with investments from high-profile UK and US investors. Spirea will use the funds to initiate its pipeline of superior and differentiated ADCs in the treatment of solid tumours where there is a high unmet need.
Tackling the challenges of cloud connectivity
In a new article for ONdrugDelivery, Gabrielle Whitworth-Smith and Thomas Watts consider the various challenges of building cloud connectivity into your medical device platform.
How digital UX in clinical trials can improve measures
Implementing Digital health technologies effectively can be challenging. In a new article for ONdrugDelivery, Ben Cox, Head of Digital Design, discusses how adopting a UX approach when designing digital tools can lead to more meaningful measures.
Researchers find epigenetic switch that helps keep early embryo cells on the right track
An international team of researchers identifies how a protein complex called Polycomb controls the very first cell fate decision towards either placenta or foetus during human embryonic development.
Evonetix appoints Colin McCracken as Chief Executive Officer
Cambridge, UK - EVONETIX LTD (‘Evonetix’), the synthetic biology company bringing semiconductor technology to DNA synthesis, announces the appointment of Colin McCracken as Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect. Colin’s appointment will support the next phase of the Company’s development and the commercialisation of its semiconductor-based DNA synthesis platform.
CAMFED Events in 2022
Join us or catch up on events all around girls' education and women's leadership in Africa
Bio-Rad Launches Foresight Pro Columns for Biotherapeutic Production
Helcules, Calif. - Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, announces the launch of its CHT™ prepacked Foresight Pro Columns, designed to support downstream process-scale chromatography applications across different stages of biological drug development and production.
Innovate UK awards grant to Orbit Discovery to expand high throughput cell-based functional screening platform capabilities in peptide drug discovery
The project will use microfluidic technology to improve efficiency of peptide therapeutics discovery for challenging drug targets.