BBC Look East tells the story of digital poverty
Veritas Digital Services was delighted to have been interviewed by BBC Look East to raise awareness of the lack of technology for families and children, highlighted in the latest lockdown.
Mirror article: Charities forced to plug school laptop shortage gap so pupils are not left without
Vertias Digital Services is delighted to have been interviewed by The Mirror to raise awareness of the lack of technology for families and children, highlighted in the latest lockdown. Schools watchdog Ofsted are also due to enforce legal requirements for state schools to provide high-quality remote education, which is good news.
Johnson Matthey and SFC Energy AG sign multi-million pound deal
Johnson Matthey (JM), a global leader in sustainable technologies, has won a new multi-million pound agreement to provide 400,000 Direct Methanol MEA fuel cell components to SFC Energy AG (SFC), a global leader of hydrogen and direct methanol fuel cells for stationary and mobile hybrid power solutions. The agreement is starting in February 2021 for a duration of over three years.
Sosei Heptares and PharmEnable collaborate for AI-driven drug discovery against challenging GPCR target
Sosei Group Corporation and PharmEnable, a UK drug discovery company, announce they have entered a collaboration to apply their respective technologies to drive novel drug discovery against a challenging G protein-couple receptor (GPCR) target associated with neurological diseases.
Council’s proposed budget aims to support residents and businesses through pandemic despite financial pressures
Budget proposals published by the District Council have put supporting South Cambridgeshire’s residents and businesses through the Coronavirus pandemic at their heart.
Principal appointed to lead ARU Peterborough
Professor Ross Renton has been appointed as Principal of ARU Peterborough and will take up his new role on 15 February.
Luminance launches AI-powered redaction tool
Luminance, the leading artificial intelligence platform for the legal profession, has today announced the release of a suite of smart redaction tools which will enable lawyers to remove confidential information with more speed and precision than ever before.
Conscious Communications launches podcast discussing hidden inequality in Cambridge
Conscious Communications has launched a podcast examining the social inequalities of Cambridge and how the issues associated with inequality can be tackled and overcome to achieve a healthier and more prosperous city for everyone to enjoy.
CN Bio’s PhysioMimix technology receives FDA recognition
CN Bio, a leading developer of single and multi organ-on-chip microphysiological systems (MPS) that improve the accuracy and efficiency of drug discovery, today announced the publication of co-authored research with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)1.
GCP rolls out more trial cycling and walking measures
Further trial measures to make it easier for people to travel around Greater Cambridge on foot and bicycle in the response to Covid-19 will be rolled out this month.
PetMedix partners with Boehringer Ingelheim
PetMedix is pleased to announce a multi-year partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim to develop novel and transformative companion animal antibody therapeutics using PetMedix's proprietary Ky9™ platform.
Collaboration network expands in Asia Pacific
An agreement between the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and the Asian Development Bank Institute aims to accelerate tech-enabled innovation and knowledge sharing.
Asymptomatic screening and genome sequencing help Cambridge understand spread of SARS-CoV-2 among students
Since the start of the academic year in October 2020, the University of Cambridge has been offering regular SARS-CoV-2 tests to all students living in its Colleges, even if they show no symptoms. Initial results suggest that the screening programme, together with the University’s public health measures and responsible student behaviour, has helped limit the spread of the virus.
New support programme for storage of energy and power systems
Are you an energy storage solution provider in North-West Europe (NWE) and do you want to bring your product to the market?
Camallergy’s UK based manufacturing facility receives cGMP licences for peanut allergy treatment
Cambridge Allergy Ltd (Camallergy), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to providing innovative, patient-centric treatments for life-threatening food allergies, announced that its manufacturing facility outside of Portsmouth, UK, was approved by the MHRA, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, to manufacture its proprietary peanut allergy treatment under current Good…
Are you prepared to trade under the new rules?
With the UK now an independent trading nation, the Department for International Trade (DIT) has online tools and resources which are the go-to source of information for all businesses which trade internationally.
Registration opens for Water Connect - Anglian Water's annual supplier conference
The Water Innovation Network’s annual conference will be held online for the first time between Monday 25 – Thursday 28 January. Water Connect is an open invitation for anyone outside the business to gain exclusive access into the current operating environment at Anglian Water.
Three suppliers chosen to develop innovative concept designs to push forward pioneering CAM scheme
Three outstanding suppliers have been selected to develop bold, innovative conceptual designs to help inform and potentially transform the delivery of the Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro (CAM).
Cambridge Index jumps 7.0%
The Cambridge Index climbed 1,726.4 points or 7.0% to close at 26419.2, as eight of the top ten Index heavyweights posted weekly gains to their share prices.
Transforming arts and humanities research into television
Arts and humanities academics are offered the chance to hear from TV professionals about how to translate research into specialist factual programming.
WaveFX streams three day international virtual symposium
The global symposium is the largest medical and scientific conference specific to MND and the premier event in the research calendar attracting over 1,000 delegates.
Supply Chain Challenges for 2021
The Global Economy is facing considerable challenges in 2021. No area of society will be unaffected by these issues – and supply chains are no different.
Fire safety changes in the care sector- what can we expect in 2021?
In November 2020, Howes Percival provided an overview of the legal framework for fire safety in care homes and teased some anticipated changes to fire safety legislation that will impact not only on care homes but, more significantly, across the wider care sector.
Starting strong
Sarah Reakes, Managing Director at KISS, writes: Like most of you no doubt, I had plenty of time over the holiday period to reflect on how confronting 2020 was.
Taylor Wessing creates one of the largest private wealth teams in European market with new hires
International law firm Taylor Wessing has further enhanced its international private wealth capability, creating one of the largest private wealth teams by total number of lawyers in the European market with the hire of a team of lawyers from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner.