Anglia Ruskin part of new £6m CUSP project
Anglia Ruskin University is a founding partner of the new Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), which is being launched today thanks to a £6million research grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Cambridge's Chemistry of Health programme awarded £17 million in funding
New funding will support fundamental research into the molecular processes underlying human disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, and enable new ways to combat them.
Winners announced: schools and universities compete in national coding challenge
Schoolchildren and undergraduates gathered on Tuesday 24 March 2015 at London’s Science Museum for the final of PA Consulting Group’s third Raspberry Pi coding competition.
0% inflation: what does it mean for your business?
Martin Jones from Kingly Brookes gives some thought to the impact on business of the recent news on the UK inflation rate.
Santander launches new breakthrough banking service for the UK’s most ambitious businesses
Santander Corporate & Commercial, the leading challenger bank in the UK, yesterday announced a new suite of services and products for the country’s most ambitious businesses. The launch is part of Santander’s plan to further disrupt and enhance the UK business banking market, and double its current SME market share to 10% by the end of 2016.
McTear Williams & Wood opens a London office and makes two new senior appointments
Anthony Davidson joins McTear Williams & Wood as a partner based in London and Mike Barker joins as an associate in a senior business development role.
Stop Press: update on the Basic Payment Scheme
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) announced on 19th March 2015 that, due to a number of technical problems with the new online system for making Basic Payment Scheme applications, they will (in some cases) be reverting to the old paper-based system for this year’s claims. Francesca Tuckerman of Hewitsons explains.
Avidity's Adrian Howson speaks on capturing and exploiting innovation
Adrian Howson of Avidity is key speaker today at a conference on Higher Apprenticeships organised by Pera Training on behalf of the European Social Fund.
Repositive Ltd raises £300k seed funding to launch genomic data discovery platform
Repositive Ltd, the spin-out of the charity DNAdigest, is building a platform where genomic scientists can make their research data sets discoverable to their peers and find other researchers working with similar datasets.
James Dyson Award 2015 opens for entries
‘Design something that solves a problem’ - The James Dyson Award challenges young engineers and scientists around the world to develop their problem solving ideas.
AstraZeneca joins Genomics England consortium
AstraZeneca today announced that it has joined a public-private consortium with Genomics England to accelerate the development of new diagnostics and treatments arising from the 100,000 Genomes Project.
Acne sufferers 'see the difference' with Lumie Clear
Lumie Clear, the hand-held light therapy device for treating acne from Cambridge-based light therapy specialists Lumie, is achieving remarkable results in the current ‘See The Difference’ campaign.
Telemarketing is like trying to find a needle in a haystack!
This article applies the metaphor 'like finding a needle in a haystack' to telemarketing. It does this by focusing on three different ways that you can make the haystack smaller to get the results you want from telemarketing.
Study finds GB’s most extroverted, agreeable and emotionally stable regions
A survey of almost 400,000 British residents has highlighted significant differences in personalities between regions.
Riverbed platform solutions power Dudek’s expansion as highly efficient hybrid enterprise
Riverbed SteelHead, SteelHead Mobile and SteelFusion create a scalable infrastructure for Dudek that provides fast access to apps, data, and people
Doing Words at the Court of St James's
Doing Words Communications MD Kaye Coleman-Rooney was one of a team of business advisors associated with Accelerate Cambridge invited to mentor competing entrepreneurs at HRH The Duke of York's Pitch@Palace 3.0 event this month.
Enigma People Solutions sponsors Scottish hi-tech Developers' Conference
Technology recruitment company Enigma People Solutions has agreed to be a lead sponsor of this year's Scottish embedded systems and realtime software conference.
How design can amplify the impact of scientific research
Design Council is part of the government’s innovation ecosystem.
Pilot revisits the Whirwind helicopter he flew, now on display at IWM Duxford
Pilot Jerry Grayson visited IWM Duxford this week to see the Westland Whirlwind helicopter he flew, which is now on display in the AirSpace exhibition.
Solarflare: 1 of the hottest privately held security & networking companies by JMP Securities
Solarflare's Real-Time, Distributed, Active Monitoring and Security Defends Against DDOS Attacks, Data Theft, Unauthorized Access, Hostile Intrusions and Advanced Persistent Threats
Cambridge tests for Marathon des Sables runners
Runners competing in the Marathon des Sables, one of the world’s greatest endurance tests, are undergoing tests of a different kind in Cambridge this week.
AMC Health and Qualcomm enhance connectivity and virtual care coordination
Qualcomm Life, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), and AMC Health, a privately held provider of ‘real-time’ patient management solutions, today announced a collaborative effort to accelerate the transformation of chronic care and population health management by significantly enhancing connectivity and care coordination for at-risk patients, specifically those with heart…
Horizon Discovery Group plc and partners awarded up to £6.2M funding
Horizon Discovery Group plc, the international life science company supplying research tools and services that power genomics research and the development of personalised medicines, announced today that a consortium led by the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) on behalf of UCB Celltech and Lonza Biologics and including Horizon as a full partner, has been awarded £6.2 million as part of the…
Cambridge awarded £18 million in funding to support UK infrastructure research
The University of Cambridge will receive £18 million in funding to ensure that the UK’s infrastructure is resilient and responsive to environmental and economic impacts, as announced by the Chancellor in last week’s budget. The Cambridge funding will be used to support research in the application of advanced sensor technologies to the monitoring of the UK’s existing and future infrastructure,…
Animals ‘predict’ earthquakes – new study
For the first time scientists have been able to capture and document how the behaviour of wild animals changes prior to an earthquake – a development which may help with short-term seismic forecasting.