Quality training is on your doorstep
Improve your confidence and boost your skills by booking onto one of the Cambridge Network Learning Collaboration courses on offer this month. All take place locally and offer value for money, quality training.
Different ways to protect your brand
Whether you are a craft beer brewery or a bespoke software solutions provider, your brand is one of your most valuable assets. To your clients and potential clients, it represents your reputation and all the goodwill you have built up over the years.
New SteelHead & SteelCentral AppResponse integration provides visibility into user experience
Next-generation SteelHead 9.0 optimizes, automates, and secures delivery of any application over hybrid networks while SteelCentral AppResponse 9.5 provides the only solution to monitor and troubleshoot end-user experience for optimized SaaS apps
Riverbed-Ready Technology Alliance Program facilitates new partner ecosystem
Program to facilitate a partner ecosystem that creates integrated solutions to deliver and manage applications and data in a global, hybrid enterprise world
Cambridge Consultants develops a world first in diagnostics
Product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants is working with Singapore-based start-up Endofotonics on a groundbreaking endoscopic instrument development to improve pre-cancer diagnosis. It’s the world’s first device to give clinicians real-time molecular diagnosis from inside the body.
AstraZeneca and Pharmacyclics enter clinical trial collaborations in oncology
Studies planned to evaluate IMBRUVICA® in combination with AstraZeneca investigational therapies for the treatment of solid tumours and haematological cancers
MedImmune strengthens immuno-oncology capabilities with acquisition of Definiens
AstraZeneca today announced that MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, has entered into an agreement to acquire Definiens, a privately-held company that has pioneered a world-leading imaging and data analysis technology, known as Tissue Phenomics™, which dramatically improves the identification of biomarkers in tumour tissue.
Last call for project proposals for MPhil students
If your company is considering a new venture, developing a new product, treatment or technology, or expanding into a new market, consider the opportunity to get fresh perspectives and analysis from a bright and resourceful team of Masters Degree (MPhil) students from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. But hurry - the deadline for proposals is next Wednesday (November 12th).
Cambridge Index rises 4.5%
The Cambridge Index rallied 4.5% or 650 points to 15,191.6, as all but two of the top ten index heavyweights posted weekly gains to their share prices.
Work begins at the Maxwell Centre
Work has begun on a centrepiece building created to pioneer revolutionary “blue skies” research and industrial partnership in the physical sciences. The start of construction on the £26 million Maxwell Centre marks a crucial early stage of a major move into new facilities for the staff of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory.
Camfed founder wins global prize for girls’ education innovation in Africa
Ann Cotton’s work to support community-owned, integrated education programmes for girls and young women in rural Africa was today recognised with the WISE Prize for Education.
How well can you tell your story?
Cambridge Network is offering members the opportunity to shine with a fun competition. Write an informative, newsworthy story and you'll not only raise your business profile, you'll be in with a chance to win a bottle of bubbly!
Survey launches to find out how businesses use content marketing
A survey has been launched to find out how Cambridgeshire’s businesses are using content marketing to boost their online presence.
Sexual abuse – tackling the difficult questions
Dr Nina Burrowes, one of the UK’s leading psychologists specialising in rape and sexual abuse, will deliver a free public talk at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge on Thursday, 13 November (6-8pm).
IWM Duxford offers free admission on Remembrance Sunday
IWM Duxford will welcome visitors from far and wide on Remembrance Sunday (November 9), offering free admission to all on this very special day as we remember members of the Armed Forces who lost their lives in active service.
AstraZeneca, Pharmacyclics and Janssen partner on immuno-oncology combination trials
AstraZeneca, Pharmacyclics, Inc. and Janssen Research & Development, LLC today announced that they have entered into a clinical trial collaboration to evaluate the efficacy and safety of AstraZeneca’s investigational anti-PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitor, MEDI4736, in combination with IMBRUVICA® (ibrutinib), an oral Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor, co-developed by Pharmacyclics and Janssen…
Employers need to act as automatic enrolment enforcement activity increases
Small and micro employers are being warned to check the date they must be ready to meet new workplace pensions duties and to prepare early.
CCS small cell microwave backhaul nets Telecoms.com Awards nomination
CCS (Cambridge Communication Systems Limited), creator of the world’s first self-organising small cell microwave backhaul system for mobile networks, today announces that it has been shortlisted for a hotly-contested Telecoms.com award in the “Pushing The Mobile Limits” category.
Your opportunity to learn about frugal and other innovation
Next month's Cambridge Network business event looks at innovation from two different perspectives: the Judge Business School's Professor Jaideep Prabhu talks about 'frugal innovation' or the ability to do more with less, while the Innovation Forum discusses collaborations between industry, academia and the public sector.
Horizon 2020 - find out the why, what and how
The Enterprise Europe Network and Innovate UK are pleased to offer a free one day Master Class focused on participation in Horizon 2020, Europe's €80bn flagship Framework Programme for Research & Innovation.
Tame your computer - super switching
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 describes how to Use a keyboard shortcut to switch between open Excel workbooks (Microsoft Excel*)...
'Wander' art installation is unveiled at CB1, Cambridge
Brookgate, the mixed-use development company, is pleased to announce the installation of Wander, an art project created by renowned artist Dryden Goodwin, into the CB1 development in Cambridge.
Barriers to social investment for charities are lifted
Cambridge law firm Stone King, is advising charities across the region that they can now confidently embark upon the process of social investment as a result of recent recommendations from the Law Commission.
Salimetrics supports National Stress Awareness Day
ISMAUK is a registered charity with a multi-disciplinary professional membership that includes the UK and the Republic of Ireland. It exists to promote sound knowledge and best practice in the prevention and reduction of human stress.
Securing software patents through the EPO
In June 2014 the US Supreme Court provided its opinion in Alice Corporation v CLS Bank. This is the latest in a number of decisions from the higher US courts which confirm the considerable uncertainty which has existed in the United States in recent years as to the boundary between what is and is not patentable.