Air Liquide i-Lab rewards design students for their work on Breathe in the City
The i-Lab, Air Liquide’s new ideas laboratory, has just concluded an awards ceremony at the Cité de la Mode et du Design in Paris honoring students at design schools for their ideas aimed at improving air quality in cities.
AECOM team through to ICE Communications Competition final
A team from AECOM’s St Albans office has won a place in the final of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Graduates & Students Communications Competition.
CCS marks five years
Five years ago, CEO Steve Greaves and CTO John Porter founded CCS. The team went on to create the world’s first self-organising small cell microwave backhaul.
Silk Pearce designs bookshelf hoardings for CB1 Cambridge
Silk Pearce has designed some intriguing site hoardings featuring ‘Cambridge books’ for two landmark buildings that are now being developed at CB1 Cambridge near the mainline railway station.
AstraZeneca and MedImmune present positive immuno-oncology combination data at ASCO 2015
AstraZeneca and MedImmune, the company’s global biologics research and development arm, today presented encouraging results from their novel combination-focused immuno-oncology portfolio at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2015.
Qualcomm powers next generation project tango development platform
Development platform integrates Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor and depth-sensing capabilities for 3D reconstruction
Taylor Vinters advises Sareum Holdings plc on its placing, raising £1.44m
Leading cancer drug discovery and development company Sareum has raised £1.44 million in a placing of ordinary shares on AIM with the help of specialist international law firm Taylor Vinters and its corporate finance team. The placing was managed by Sareum’s nominated adviser, WH Ireland, acting as co-broker together with Hybridan.
Find out how C3's IVR architecture helped ensure seamless voting at Eurovision 2015
C3 partners Phonovation Response have once again successfully supplied voting architecture for viewers in Ireland - using a system running on C3 technology.
Leading marketing professor asks if marketing is too slippery
The Marketing Channel radio show has aired the first part of a two-part interview with marketing planning guru Professor Malcolm McDonald, and it has proved quite controversial. The radio show is presented by Kiran Kapur for Cambridge Marketing College with Star Radio and airs weekly.
SME competitiveness: CEO Growth Challenge kicks off
The CEO Growth Challenge, an innovative programme that aims to enhance the competitiveness of 16 high-potential companies in the East of England, kicked off this week in Cambridge with the first of three workshops. The programme is organised by Cambridge Judge Business School in partnership with bank Santander.
AstraZeneca & Lilly collaborate on Immuno-oncology clinical trial in solid tumours
AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) today announced that they have entered into a clinical trial collaboration to evaluate the safety and preliminary efficacy of AstraZeneca’s investigational anti-PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitor, MEDI4736, in combination with ramucirumab (CYRAMZA®), Lilly’s VEGF Receptor 2 antiangiogenic cancer medicine. The planned study will assess the combination…
Fossil fuel subsidies
An IMF report claims fossil fuels receive enormous subsidies. The Scientific Alliance comments.
Chiltern Society chooses ViewRanger to put the best of The Chilterns onto mobile
ViewRanger, the outdoor guide, mapping and navigation app, is working with the Chiltern Society to make many of the best walking routes in the Chilterns available to download on smartphones and tablets.
Anglia Ruskin academics head to Cheltenham
Anglia Ruskin University academics Ben Garrod and Professor Farah Mendlesohn both have starring roles in next week’s The Times Cheltenham Science Festival.
Tecan launches new options for Spark™ 10M
Tecan has introduced a number of new features for the Spark™ 10M multimode reader.
New index of children’s ‘school readiness’ highlights importance of family support
The importance of family support on a child’s ‘school readiness’ is highlighted in a study published this month in the British Journal of Educational Psychology. Researchers developed and piloted a new index that might provide a simple and stress-free alternative to the government’s proposed baseline assessments for four-year-olds starting school.
Discovery shows what the solar system looked like as a ‘toddler’
Astronomers have discovered a disc of planetary debris surrounding a young sun-like star that shares remarkable similarities with the Kuiper Belt that lies beyond Neptune, and may aid in understanding how our solar system developed.
Online service helps parents track new school term dates
An innovative web service, Term Dates, is now providing parents with instant online access to the term dates and school holidays of every primary and secondary school in England, Scotland and Wales.
Free evening classes on offer at Cambridge Regional College
Cambridge Regional College will be celebrating Adult Learners’ Week in June with a bumper range of free taster classes, including welding, hairstyling, jewellery, pottery and electronics.
C3 exhibits at CIH 2015 in Manchester
The C3 team is excited to announce they will be exhibiting at next month’s Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) conference in Manchester.
Pure Resourcing Solutions wins award for ‘most vibrant culture’
Pure Resourcing Solutions (Pure) was delighted to hear it had won an award at the first annual Jostle Awards for its vibrant and engaging intranet, receiving an enviable 80% or more engagement level each week. This award celebrates Pure's people, and reflects its knowledge and values.
New faces join Cambridge based digital agency
Studio 24, an award-winning digital marketing agency based just off Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, has welcomed several new team members since the beginning of the year.
Don't be a sheep, says MD at KISS Communications
Have you ever noticed that brands in certain categories often tend to look and sound the same? Sarah Reakes, Managing Director at creative marketing agency KISS, puts forward the case for differentiation.
Domino's new laser printing capabilities for food packaging
Working in close cooperation, Domino and MERCK KGaA, Darmstadt, have developed a breakthrough application around the Domino F220i fibre laser coder and a new generation of MERCK KGaA, Darmstadt additives.
TGAC awarded £150k to help boost science innovation
The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), with partner Institutes, has been awarded £150k from the Norwich Research Park Translational Fund for three data-driven projects to advance bioinformatics tools from concept to commercialisation for research and clinical use.