Clear communications and advanced mathematics
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Monthly news from Eastern AHSN - August 2020
As the region’s health services had to quickly adapt to the coronavirus pandemic, the Eastern Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) had a key role to play in supporting its partners to deliver services in a different way.
Electric roads will help cut UK road freight emissions, report says
Electrification of 7,500km of the UK’s major road network would enable most lorries to be powered by overhead charging cables, resulting in dramatically reduced carbon emissions, a new report has found.
Cambridge spin-out company leads €10.3 million project to help shape the future of power electronics
Cambridge GaN Devices Ltd (CGD), a spin-out from the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, will lead a €10.3 million project dedicated to the design and development of the most energy-efficient next-generation Gallium nitride (GaN) power modules.
Mills & Reeve advises on £1.2 billion pioneering deal to deliver 3,500 new homes in Hampshire
Mills & Reeve has advised Urban&Civic on a pioneering partnership deal to develop a £1.2 billion new homes project at Manydown in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Speechmatics and Veritone unveil availability of secure transcription as a cognitive service
Speechmatics, a UK leader in any-context speech recognition technology, has announced that US-based Veritone, Inc., the creator of the world’s first operating system for artificial intelligence, aiWARE™, now offers secure transcription capability as a cognitive service within Veritone’s aiWARETM operating system for AI.
Microsoft Research Cambridge collaborates with game developer Ninja Theory
Non-player characters are the heart and soul of many video games, and new AI technology lets developers create characters that act organically and respond naturally to the player.
Birketts’ Employee Incentives team recruits to meet increasing demand for employee-led business models
Birketts has announced the appointment of Xiaolei Liu as a Solicitor in its highly regarded Employee Incentives team.
COVID-19: Potential vaccines and logistics
While pharmaceuticals contribute to approximately 2% of annual air cargo volume, the industry transports over one trillion dollars’ worth of cargo every year (IATA). Pharmaceutical shipments have an overwhelmingly large impact on the global response to infectious diseases and general healthcare.
EACH hosts new virtual shopping fair ‘Granny’s Online Attic'
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) is set to host a virtual shopping fair through its eBay store on Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th August.
Museum of Cambridge awarded National Lottery Heritage Fund grant
The Museum of Cambridge has received a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £210,600 to support Museum Making, which will be a transformational project for the Museum.
Grow-your-own community flourishes at first Northstowe allotments
Residents are reaping the benefits of growing their own food at the very first allotments in Northstowe – and enjoying respite from lockdown.
Taylor Wessing cements position as expert international lawyers for the India market
Taylor Wessing has been named by the India Business Law Journal as a leading firm for work in India.
Taylor Wessing launches Return to Work tech solution to business leaders with Wilson Sonsini's SixFifty
SixFifty partners with leading international law firms Taylor Wessing and Wilson Sonsini to develop a technology solution to help businesses and their employees return to work safely in the US and Europe.Together with SixFifty, the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson Sonsini, Taylor Wessing has released a legal technology 'Return to Work Toolset' for businesses to support the safe…
Data-driven invention pioneer, Iprova, marks 10 years of reinventing invention
The Cambridge Science Park based company Iprova marks ten years of pioneering the digital transformation of invention through its data-driven invention technology.
A personal reflection - key lessons from an unconventional career trajectory and the skills needed to adapt in the face of uncertainty
Steve Iddon of accentuate reflects on the skills and qualities needed to adapt and change in a challenging and uncertain workplace.
Reflection Therapeutics secures Innovate UK co-funding for major research programme to fight motor neurone disease through cell therapy
Reflection Therapeutics, Cambridge-based developer of cell therapy against neuroinflammation, is pleased to announce the start of a major Innovate Smart Grant project co-funded by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency.
Lumeon raises $30m in funding to support US growth
Boston, USA...Lumeon, the leader in care pathway orchestration, announced that it has closed $30M in Series D funding led by new investors Optum Ventures and Endeavour Vision, with participation from current investors LSP, MTIP, IPF Partners, Gilde and Amadeus Capital Partners.
EACH eBay shop takes record-breaking £24.3k on return from lockdown
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) has seen its eBay shop smash its previous record for monthly income following its return from lockdown.
Surgeon’s pledge on Cape Town gun victims
A young Addenbrooke’s trainee in academic and clinical neurosurgery who found himself in the thick of the Covid-19 outbreak in South Africa today vowed to return and help more patients with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) caused by gunshots.
Mill Road tales and mysteries revealed at Open Cambridge
The countdown has begun for this year’s digital Open Cambridge heritage weekend (11-13 September), with only four weeks to go until viewers can log on and learn more about the city and beyond.
Poignant Second World War Cambridgeshire memorials re-listed to commemorate 75th anniversary of VJ Day
Two Grade I listed churches in the East of England have been re-listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on the advice of Historic England, with new information linking them to the Second World War and the Allied victory in Japan.
Tilney sponsors 'CEO of the Year' at 2020 Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards
Tilney, the Cambridge-based financial planning and investment management group, has been unveiled as the sponsor of the CEO of the Year category at the 2020 Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards.
Cambridgeshire SME wins £19m deal: electric car battery parts made from organic waste
TRB Lightweight Structures (TRB) has won a £19 million deal to export electric car battery parts made from organic waste to the United States.
Meditation-relaxation therapy may offer escape from the terror of sleep paralysis
Sleep paralysis – a condition thought to explain a number of mysterious experiences including alleged cases of alien abduction and demonic night-time visits – could be treated using a technique of meditation-relaxation, suggests a pilot study published today.