Now in its fifth year, BioBeat is a collaborative innovation platform for business entrepreneurs and leaders in bioscience. BioBeat’s Movers and Shakers annual report demonstrates how talented women in biobusiness are driving innovation in life science. This year the report recognises 50 outstanding women leaders across five key translational themes: Great Science, Financial Enablers, Collaboration, Patient Impact, and Infrastructure Innovation. Below we focus on the report’s Great Science theme and find out about those women who have been making great scientific advances towards giving us a healthier world.
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How do we step up biotech partnering to make greater impact on health and wealth? The Francis Crick Institute was delighted to host BioBeat17: Re-shaping biotech partnering on 16 November 2017. This half day event for scientists, entrepreneurs and investors explored strategies and opportunities for successful translation between academia and biotech.
Urgency to improve global health. This was the over-riding mentoring need of life science entrepreneurs at the recent IECT Summer School on Entrepreneurship in the Austrian Tyrol. The life science delegates from Austria, Germany, Israel, Hong Kong, and the UK shared a strong commitment to deliver the best possible technology solutions to make the world healthier for us all.
Founded in 2015 by Hermann Hauser in the UK and Josef Hauser in Austria,
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Now in its fourth year, BioBeat, founded by Miranda Weston-Smith, is a collaborative platform for entrepreneurs and leaders in the biotech industry. BioBeat’s annual Movers and Shakers report honours women in biobusiness who are setting the pace in the life science sector and delivering extraordinary success in their field. To celebrate this Autumn’s BioBeat16 event and the publication of this year’s report, we’ve been speaking to some of 2015’s Movers and Shakers to explore how they’re transforming today’s challenges into tomorrow’s opportunities.
» Read more about: Interview: Emma Sceats, CEO of CN Bio Innovations on the secrets of successful university life science spin-out »
How do we nurture growth in the life science sector and ensure the UK is the best place to develop innovative patient therapies in these turbulent times? These are some of the questions that were discussed at the BioBeat16 summit, held on 16th November 2016 in Cambridge. Around 160 delegates, including life science academics, biobusiness leaders, industry experts and investors gathered at St Catharine’s College for an evening of networking and a panel discussion on the theme of Stretching Biotech Pharma Entrepreneurship.
» Read more about: Top Trends at BioBeat16: Stretching biotech pharma entrepreneurship »
Now in its fourth year, BioBeat, founded by Miranda Weston-Smith, is a collaborative platform for entrepreneurs and leaders in the biotech industry. BioBeat’s annual Movers and Shakers report honours women in biobusiness who are setting the pace in the life science sector and delivering extraordinary success in their field. To celebrate this Autumn’s BioBeat16 event and the publication of this year’s report, we’ve been speaking to some of 2015’s Movers and Shakers to explore how they’re transforming today’s challenges into tomorrow’s opportunities.
» Read more about: Q&A: Julia Fan Li, Senior Vice President at genomics firm Seven Bridges on the power of the cloud for accelerating precision medicine »
Now in its fourth year, BioBeat, founded by Miranda Weston-Smith, is a collaborative platform for entrepreneurs and leaders in the biotech industry. BioBeat’s annual Movers and Shakers report honours women in biobusiness who are setting the pace in the life science sector and delivering extraordinary success in their field. In the run up to this November’s BioBeat16 event, we speak to some of 2015’s Movers and Shakers to explore how they’re transforming today’s challenges into tomorrow’s opportunities.
» Read more about: Interview: ABPI’s Rebecca Lumsden and Magda Papadaki on how UK pharma is meeting global healthcare challenges »
Now in its fourth year, BioBeat, founded by Miranda Weston-Smith, is a collaborative platform for entrepreneurs and leaders in the biotech industry. BioBeat’s annual Movers and Shakers report honours women in biobusiness who are setting the pace in the life science sector and delivering extraordinary success in their field. In the run up to this November’s BioBeat16 event, we speak to some of 2015’s Movers and Shakers to explore how they’re transforming today’s challenges into tomorrow’s opportunities.
» Read more about: Interview: ABPI’s Rebecca Lumsden and Magda Papadaki discuss changes to the UK drug discovery landscape »
How do we nurture growth in the life science sector and ensure the UK is the best place to develop innovative patient therapies in these turbulent times? These are some of the questions that were discussed at the BioBeat16 summit, on Stretching Biotech Pharma Entrepreneurship, held on 16th November 2016 in Cambridge. Read Miranda’s blog.
Now in its fourth year, BioBeat, founded by Miranda Weston-Smith, is a collaborative platform for entrepreneurs and leaders in the biotech industry. BioBeat’s annual Movers and Shakers report honours women in biobusiness who are setting the pace in the life science sector and delivering extraordinary success in their field. In the run up to this November’s BioBeat16 event, we speak to some of 2015’s Movers and Shakers to explore how they’re transforming today’s challenges into tomorrow’s opportunities.
» Read more about: Interview: Dame Professor Anna Dominiczak on her ambition to make the UK a world leader in precision medicine »
Now in its fourth year, BioBeat, founded by Miranda Weston-Smith, is a collaborative platform for entrepreneurs and leaders in the biotech industry. BioBeat’s annual Movers and Shakers report honours women in biobusiness who are setting the pace in the life science sector and delivering extraordinary success in their field. In the run up to this November’s BioBeat16 event, we speak to some of 2015’s Movers and Shakers to explore how they’re transforming today’s challenges into tomorrow’s opportunities.
» Read more about: Interview: Kate Bishop, Group Leader at the Crick Institute on collaborating with industry and beyond to develop new HIV therapeutics »
Described by the UK government as “a jewel in the crown” of the economy, Britain’s life science sector boasts an annual turnover of £30bn and employs around 70,000 people across 380 companies. And in the government’s view – as laid out in its strategy for the sector – this is an industry where the UK can establish a leadership position, particularly in the emerging field of harnessing genomic data.
It’s also an industry where startups and early are expected to play an important role in driving innovation.
» Read more about: Forbes: Report Celebrates Britain’s Female Life Science Entrepreneurs »
The 50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness 2015 report really shows how the biotech industry is embracing change, with nearly double the number of Rising Stars compared to last year. 50 outstanding women bioentrepreneurs and business leaders are recognized for their contributions to global health innovation.
This was debated by 140 delegates at BioBeat14: 50 Movers and Shakers at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge on 23 October 2014. Run by BioBeat, the Innovation Forum and Cambridge Judge Business School’s Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, the debate offered access to the leaders, to discuss their ideas; to find out what’s in, what’ s out, the next big things.
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2014 saw the expansion of the BioBeat programme with the launch of the 50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness 2014 report. Leading in a Collaborative World was the topic at the annual autumn event in Cambridge. There were discussions about leading in a rapidly changing sector, multi‐disciplinary working and attitudes to risk in a world where organisations must manage the tension between collaboration and competition.
What does it take to be a leader in the biotechnology sector? At the UK Bioscience Forum, the ‘Game-changing Leaders’ panel session discussed the different attributes required to lead a company and how this evolves through the lifecycle of a business.
Miranda Weston-Smith, founder of BioBeat, discusses disrupting the status quo in biotech and recognising the contribution of biotech’s leading women.
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An international line up of speakers kicked off the BioBeat programme, sharing their knowledge about growing biobusinesses. There were debates on responding to global healthcare challenges, building companies in new markets, essentials to secure funding and creating effective teams and boards
A practical guide for anyone interested in setting up a science-based company. The book encapsulates Cambridge Enterprise’s collective skills of starting strong businesses with University researchers, and reflects the expertise of external contributors.
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A collection of 20 lectures ranging across active areas of astronomical research. In the series, scientists, mostly British and American, and including three Nobel Laureates, present their work and perspectives on developments and trends in astrophysics during the last two decades.
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How do you paint a picture of infinity? How do you dance about death? How do you draw a diagram explaining entropy? Images and Understanding explores the human problem of moving facts and ideas from one mind to another ‐ the problems of how we see and communicate using images expressed in pictures, diagrams, words, music and dance.
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