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Ubisense appoints Richard Petti as CEO
Ubisense Group plc (AIM:UBI), a global leader in enterprise location intelligence solutions, has announced the appointment of Richard Petti as Chief Executive Officer.
Record-breaking Christmas getaway completes record year at London Stansted
London Stansted Airport completed a record-breaking 2016 with its busiest ever December as the great Christmas getaway and record high aircraft load factors boosted passenger numbers during the month.
SBRI Healthcare looks to improve young lives
With six percent of children in the UK living with disability, ingenious life-changing solutions can ensure they have the best start in life. SBRI Healthcare has announced it is to fund nine companies developing innovations that aim to provide children living with disability and long term conditions with the potential to live life to the full.
As the new year begins, recognise your achievements
With the new year beginning, it is tempting to write off the previous year and throw oneself fully into setting goals for the new year. But it's important to appreciate what you have already, advises Penny Sophocleous of Corporate Alchemy.
Air Liquide strengthens its long-term partnership with ArcelorMittal
Air Liquide and ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel producer, have recently signed two long-term renewal contracts for the supply of oxygen, nitrogen and argon to ArcelorMittal’s production sites in the industrial port areas of Fos-sur-Mer and Dunkirk in France.
Juliet Harvey joins Birketts’ Family Law team
Top 100 law firm, Birketts, has announced that Juliet Harvey, a Chartered Legal Executive and Collaborative Lawyer, has joined the Family Law team as a Senior Associate.
How to organise ‘social innovation’ research
New study from the Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge calls for three sub-categories of social innovation – social entrepreneurship, social intrapreneurship, and social extrapreneurship – to create a new research framework.
Downing College strengthens conference team
Downing College has enhanced its conference team with the appointment of Molly Payne as Conference Office Administrator.
Appleyard Lees starts new year with Associate promotions
Patent and trade mark attorneys Appleyard Lees has started 2017 with a number of internal promotions that will form a key part of the firm’s continued growth and staff development programme.
Nesta launches a new £10k challenge for young tech pioneers
Nesta has teamed up with IBM to launch Longitude Explorer, a £10k competition for secondary school pupils aged 11-16, which aims to develop science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills. It's calling on young people to come up with practical solutions to healthcare challenges using the Internet of Things.
Start a business and make a difference in 2017
Make 2017 the year your start-up gets going, with free support from Allia's Serious Impact to start a business with purpose.
Council joins forces with local company to invest in new homes
Cambridge City Council has teamed up with Hill Investment Partnerships, a subsidiary of the housebuilding company Hill Holdings Limited, to form a new investment company to tackle the affordable housing shortage in the city.
Cambridge Index adds 1.0%
The Cambridge Index gained 1.0% or 224 points to finish at 22,588.9, as six of the top ten Index heavyweights posted weekly gains to their share prices.
Kymab receives $9m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Kymab Group Limited, a leading monoclonal antibody biopharmaceutical group, announced today that it has received a $9m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate the development of novel vaccines and therapeutics for infectious diseases, including HIV.
ECM report covers impacts of Brexit on high-tech sector
High-tech recruitment experts ECM have released their latest annual Salary and Benefits Report. This year there is a special section on the impacts of the Brexit vote.
Owlstone Medical announces £9.3M fundraising
Owlstone Medical Ltd, a diagnostics company developing a breathalyzer for disease, today announced that it has successfully raised £9.3 million ($11.55 million USD) financing. The investment round was led by existing investors, and will be used to commercially launch the company’s breath biomarker R&D services, including the opening of a new high volume clinical facility, and to fund ongoing…
Would the crowd back your agri-tech venture?
While many are familiar with the concept of crowdfunding, it can be difficult to take those first steps. Paul Hughes of Allia will be providing his insights at an Agri-Tech East event on Monday 23 January in Cambridge. Other fundraising options for farming will be discussed, including access to grants, remaining EU funding and R&D tax credits.
EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year programme open for entries
EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year programme, celebrating entrepreneurs who are leading emerging and developed businesses, is now open for entries. It celebrates the success of the UK’s best entrepreneurs, the contribution they’re making to our economy and the legacy they’re building.
Crohn’s disease risk and prognosis determined by different genes, study finds
Researchers have identified a series of genetic variants that affect the severity of Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel disease – but surprisingly, none of these variants appear to be related to an individual’s risk of developing the condition in the first place.
Citystay's hat-trick: Quality Accredited Operator status for third consecutive year
Citystay Limited in Cambridge is delighted to announce that for the third consecutive year it has been awarded the Quality Accredited Operator status by industry body The Association of Serviced Apartment Providers (the ASAP).
CUH consultant takes up top HIV post
Dr Sani Aliyu, a consultant in microbiology and infectious diseases at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH), has been appointed to a top HIV post in Nigeria.
OpenCL: transforming the industry or another tool in the toolbox?
The use of the Open Computing Language (OpenCL™) has been heralded as an easier method to harness the power of devices which provide hardware acceleration, for use in heterogeneous computing applications. Chris May, an expert in electronics hardware and FPGA design at PA Consulting, discusses the issues.
More MOFs - Metal Organic frameworks - from Strem Chemicals UK
Highly stable metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been under investigation for a long period because of the interest in the material sustainability for real world applications. Nevertheless, synthesizing highly porous, chemically robust, and single crystalline MOFs has been extremely challenging.
Chamber of Commerce celebrates centenary
Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce is preparing to celebrate its 100th anniversary with a year of events and initiatives designed to recognise the outstanding achievements of the Cambridgeshire Chamber business community and inspire future business success.
Do you want to boldly go where science has not gone before?
It is theorised that the Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter, but there is not much antimatter to be found today in comparison to matter. Professor Carsten Welsch of the Cockcroft Institute, and Head of Physics at the University of Liverpool, is organising a kick-off meeting this Thursday (12 Jan) for a new research and training network called AVA (Accelerators…