Reliance launches new Miniature Actuator
Reliance is pleased to announce the launch of a new product, the RLMA11 – Miniature Actuator, to complement their existing Motorised Actuators range.
Reflection: Formal or informal opportunities
Level Seven's next instalment on Reflection: 'How to be an opportunistic reflector'.
New system can identify drugs to target ‘undruggable’ enzymes critical in many diseases
A new drug discovery system allows scientists to specifically target members of an important family of enzymes, called phosphatases, which were previously considered mostly “undruggable”.
IT Governance Gap Assessment Tool is now specifically tailored for school sector
Efforts to adapt its industry leading products for all sectors continues to gather pace for IT Governance, as it announces an EU GDPR Compliance Gap Assessment Tool specifically tailored for schools.
Celebrating local schools and businesses coming together to ‘Form the Future’
Form the Future CIC invited their biggest supporters from schools and businesses across Cambridgeshire to join them in celebrating the end of a very successful academic year! The summer party was held at the Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology (CAST) and was kicked off with a summary of our impact this year.
Re-imagining church buildings
The Diocese of Ely and Cambridge Judge Business School, with the support of Allchurches Trust and Historic England, launch a three-year project to help communities make fuller use of their historic churches.
Ride for Life raises over £30,000 for EACH
Over £30,000 has been raised for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) by 26 intrepid cyclists who rode 200-plus miles across the region
The Digital Age of Healthcare
Dr Nigel Whittle, Head of Medical & Healthcare here at Plextek featured in ‘Tomorrow’s Care’ magazine this week. He discusses how different technologies are being adapted in many different aspects of care, and how this is reshaping the delivery of care.
Cambridge is one of UK’s top cities to work in 2018
London is internationally renowned as a business centre, particularly for financial services, the creative industry and its appeal to technology firms. However new research reveals that Oxford, Cambridge, and Milton Keynes are on track to becoming the UK’s most innovative and entrepreneurial cities, according to Bidwells.
Healx raises $10m as investors back AI to find rare disease treatments faster
Healx, the Cambridge (UK) technology company developing breakthrough treatments for rare diseases, has announced a $10 million Series A funding round, led by Balderton Capital, Europe’s leading early-stage venture investor. Existing investors, Jonathan Milner and Amadeus Capital Partners also participated in the round.
Schoolboy Matt scales heights in memory of dad
A plucky seven-year-old has scaled the highest peak in Ireland to raise money to help doctors at Addenbrooke’s Hospital research the cancer that took his father’s life.
Team finds Shieldin fight against cancer
A breakthrough by Cambridge academics armed with state-of-the-art gene editing technology could further help clinicians in the battle against cancer.
Cambridge Science Centre is back and looking forward to seeing you!
What's on this summer? Lots of fun activities are happening both in their Cambridge Centre and in communities across East Anglia.
Community Magazines celebrated at The Cambridge’s Annual Awards Ceremony
Monday night was the 19th annual Cambridge Building Society Community Magazine Awards and local editors, publishers and staff from The Cambridge Building Society came together to find out which publications were victorious.
Ashtons launches Wills Year initiative
Regional law firm Ashtons Legal have this month launched their Wills Year initiative where a donation for each Will completed in an entire year will be donated to local charities.
Working mothers: we become experts in separation
KISS Account Director Sue Cartwright on how motherhood has made her a better employee.
The value of marketing qualifications & training courses
Only 38% of marketing professionals get training courses paid for by their employer as a benefit; yet our recent Marketing Salary Survey results found that marketers rank training (paid courses) as the third most important benefit to them.
Saudi Aramco visits NSIRC and TWI
Mr Saad Qahtani, Saudi Aramco Manager of Specialty and Intermediate Chemicals, visited NSIRC and TWI on Tuesday 17 July. The visit marks another important milestone within the establishment of the multi-stakeholder NIC (Non-Metallic Innovation Centre), as the world-renowned oil and gas company Aramco Technologies progresses with the agreements signed in the charter with TWI Ltd.
It's not perfect, but business can work with this
CBI Director-General Carolyn Fairbairn on the Chequers plan – and what needs to happen next
Stone King service supports pre-Brexit buyers and sellers in France
In the run up to Brexit, this summer Cambridge-based law firm Stone King launched a service to support clients from start to finish in the sale or purchase of property in France.
Kleinwort Hambros outlines its investment principles
Mouhammed Choukeir, Chief Investment Officer at Kleinwort Hambros, outlines the firm's investment philosophy, VaMoS, and picks apart the key tenets of this approach: Valuation, Momentum, Sentiment.
The MERIT of working with microalgae
Algenuity, based in Stewartby, Bedfordshire, is celebrating the successful launch of the MicroalgaE as Renewable Innovative green cell facTories project, MERIT, a three-year ERA CoBioTech project financed under the Horizon 2020 programme.
New Chief Executive for Addenbrooke's Charity
The Trustees of Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT) - the charity dedicated to supporting innovation in patient care across Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie hospitals - are pleased to announce the appointment of Shelly Thake as Chief Executive of the charity with immediate effect.
Computational chemistry news from Cresset July 2018
Launch of Cresset Python extensions for Flare
Statutory minimum auto-enrolment pension increases: April 2019
Mandatory minimum contribution increases took place on 6 April 2018 and a further rise will take place on 6 April 2019.