Sable&Hawkes delivers major wayfinding and environment project for Great Ormond Street
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is a world-renowned international centre of excellence in child healthcare. Cambridge-based design and communication agency Sable&Hawkes was commissioned by GOSH to work with them on a major new environment and signage project.
AVEVA, a Cambridge success story, closes flagship customer event in the city
AVEVA, one of the greatest success stories to emerge from the ‘Cambridge Phenomenon’, drew its flagship customer event, the AVEVA World Summit, to a close last week. As celebrations of its 50th anniversary year near their end, AVEVA, the engineering, design and information management software leader, held the Summit at the historic Cambridge venues, the Corn Exchange and Guildhall.
Facilitating a drug discovery ecosystem: Genestack joins the Milner Therapeutics Institute
“As sequencing technology shrinks to the size of a key ring and emerging technologies make it possible to track changes to the genome at single cell level, then all of a sudden genomics data becomes a streaming and wearable dataset,” says Imad Yassin, Vice President of bio data management company Genestack. He is explaining why an ecosystem approach is needed for drug discovery and how the…
Cambridge BID’s big Switch-On event 2017 lights up Christmas for vulnerable children
Cambridge's annual Christmas Lights Switch-On event will be delivering a poignant message this year in support of the NSPCC’s ‘Light Up Christmas For Children’ campaign.
OH! Films, Cambridge Video Production completes film featuring Adobe, Amazon, B&Q, Facebook
OH! Films, the Cambridge Video Production company, has completed the full film and video production for In-house Recruitment LIVE!, an event featuring Adobe, Amazon, B&Q, Facebook and Harrods.
Right-handed baseball players more successful when batting left-handed
Research shows that baseball players who bat left but throw right-handed have a surprising advantage.
Mission Therapeutics presents at Michael J Fox Foundation’s Parkinson’s Disease conference
Mission Therapeutics announced that its Medical Director, CNS Translational Medicine, Dr Paul Thompson will be delivering a presentation today at the Parkinson’s Disease Therapeutics Conference in New York City.
‘Ask the expert’ welding qualifications webinar series launch proves a success
October 12 saw TWI host a special ‘ask the expert’ webinar on ISO and ASME welding qualifications. Attendees were invited to provide questions ahead of and during the event, which was handled by TWI Consultant Welding Engineer and member of national and international committees on welding qualifications, Marcello Consonni.
Hany Elmantawy offers IEng inspiration
Developing his competence, skills and knowledge is important for Engineering and Projects Advisor Hany Elmantawy. Spending the last few years working for the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC Offshore) has seen Hany involved in projects for a variety of clients working in the oil and gas industry around the world.
Auto-enrolment update from NW Brown
2017 has taken auto-enrolment into the next phase of changes: the re-enrolment obligations for medium-sized employers who staged back in 2014, the requirement for new employers to have a scheme in place and start contributions for new employees in October 2017, and in April 2018 the first increase to the minimum level of pension contributions is due.
Domino Digital Printing Solutions appoints new European Director
Domino Digital Printing Solutions, based at Bar Hill in Cambridgeshire, is strengthening its senior team with the appointment of Shane Dewar as European Director, with responsibility for driving sales of the company’s ink jet printing equipment and managing support services across the EMEA region.
Tame your computer - shortcuts to selection
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members, software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she explains how to select rows and columns in a table (Microsoft Excel).
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships announced
Two prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships have been awarded to a researcher and an alumnus of Cambridge University's Department of Engineering.
myfamilygenealogy.co.uk celebrates one year of membership
myfamilygenealogy.co.uk celebrates one year of belonging to the Cambridge Network community and talks about the benefits of membership:
Creative Review: Launching a high-tech hotel chain
Creative Solutions stages events at some prestigious locations, as well as a few that only exist in cyber-space. There’s something, though, about a cosmopolitan hotel in the heart of London’s West End that isn’t easy to beat.
Get rid of your business ghouls this Halloween
The Enterprise Europe Network supports ambitious SMEs to achieve their potential. There's a team of advisers on hand to support businesses in many areas, from funding to intellectual property. All you gotta do is call...
Magna puts a new twist on welding
Magna has put a new twist on joining thermoplastic materials to help automakers cut weight and costs: torsional welding.
CDT inspires a product designer in the making
"When you get a request for work experience from a 15-year old boy, let’s be honest, you’re never really sure whether to go for it and try to inspire a young product designer in the making, or pass it by!" says Jon Plumb of Cambridge Design Technology (CDT).
Scale-ups target US as Brexit dampens appetite for EU expansion
The US has overtaken the EU to become the most popular market scale-ups - early stage, high potential businesses - say they will target for export growth, according to a survey of 500 UK scale-ups by Deloitte. Fifty two percent of respondents rated the US as their preferred market for overseas expansion, compared to just 21% who said they were targeting the US prior to the EU referendum.
Double celebration for microbiologist Sharon
Staff at Cambridge University Hospitals are celebrating after a colleague received national recognition – twice in one week.
Email marketing: dead or alive? Interview with CommuniGator’s Lee Chadwick
As part of The Marketing Centre's series on email marketing and social media, the team has been talking to specialists in both areas and inviting them to share their insights. Lee Chadwick is Managing Director at CommuniGator, which offers an automatic service for generating leads through email marketing. Here he talks about how necessary this is in the age of social media, and what businesses…
As the clocks go back, the Corpus Chronophage reminds us time is ticking away
This Sunday, 29 October 2017, the clocks are changed from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time – effectively going back one hour. For some, it’s a welcome extra hour in bed. For others, the darker evenings are a depressing reminder of the advent of winter. But as we debate this, time keeps marching on, as the Corpus Chronophage in Cambridge reminds us.
Syngene system used to image proteins at the University of Bristol School of Biochemistry
Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, today announced its G:BOX Chemi XRQ multi-application imager is being used in the School of Biochemistry at the University of Bristol, one of the UK’s best biochemistry departments.
Air Corsica to launch first UK flights at London Stansted from 2018
Air Corsica is to launch its first ever UK service when it begins flying from London Stansted Airport in summer 2018 to the popular Mediterranean holiday Island.
PCE Instruments introduces new series of borescopes
PCE Instruments has launched a new range of industrial borescopes which are available with different camera cables to fit the individual customers’ purpose. The series is called the PCE-VE 1000 series.