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Join the UK’s most provocative 6G Conference – CW TEC
The agenda is now live for CW TEC, Cambridge Wireless’s flagship technology and engineering conference. ...
Anthias Consulting turns 20
Two Decades of Impact: Diane Turner's Journey Through Analytical Chemistry and EntrepreneurshipOn 1st June 2025, Dr. Diane Turner celebrates a remarkable milestone: 20 years since founding Anthias Consulting, a company that has grown to become a respected name in the field of analytical...
Biotech’s Next Frontier: Harnessing Space to Achieve the Impossible on Earth
Join us to explore how space biology is driving biotech breakthroughs in the life science sector ...
Cambridge’s Centre for Computing History joins the Cosmic Shambles Forest of Science and Culture at Latitude Festival 2025
The Centre for Computing History (CCH) is delighted to be bringing the fascinating history of computing to The Cosmic Shambles Forest of Science and Culture at Latitude Festival this summer! ...
Introduction to Drug Development: From Candidate Selection to Patients in Healthcare
AudienceThose who want to understand what is done to bring new treatments to patients, and/or better operate with the language of internal customers. Typically people in non life-science technical roles in our sector – IT, Finance, HR and Admin staff. ...
Astoriom appoints Brittany Jackson as CFO
Key appointment to lead the company’s financial strategy and support continued global growth in sample stability and biorepository storage solutions ...
Biomedical Research with Health Databanks: Privacy and Data Protection Considerations
In early April this year, Prime Minister Starmer announced the UK government's plans to boost biomedical research by ensuring access to large sets of health data. A Health Data Research Service will be set up and host data from various divisions of the National Health Service (the ...
The European health data space: Key features and opportunities for access and research
In a previous blog post, we briefly outlined the plans of the European Union (EU) to facilitate access to high-quality data for scientific research. Three main EU initiatives aim at enabling such access. The first initiative focusses on the establishment of a network of common Euro...
Privacy implications of secondary use of personal data for scientific research in the European Union
Scientific research is front and centre in innovation policies across Europe, and the European Union (EU)'s research agenda makes no exception. ...
UK Biobank: A case-study of biomedical research with Databanks and its privacy and data protection considerations
In a previous blog post, we outlined the typical privacy and data protection implications of conducting biomedical research using personal data from health databanks. These implications relate to the reliability of anonymisation, valid grounds for the reuse of health data, transparency ...