The University of Cambridge has participated in venture capital to invest in technologies emanating in the University since the 1980s. This paper explores its roles and how investment has grown. The University’s role ranges through investing into a fund alongside others, leading or co-leading on a fund and serving as the bond linking alumni investors into a fund.
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Live-streamed to over 600 delegates from AstraZeneca’s new R&D Centre in Cambridge, UK, this year’s BioBeat Summit focused on optimising outcomes through digital innovation in clinical trials and beyond. BioBeat founder Miranda Weston-Smith opened the event with the message that we are at our most impactful when technology and humanity converge, bringing new opportunities for creating progress and value.
We need to share our experiences about what works, to build on the valuable insights we’ve all gained over the past two years.
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This report highlights 30 trendsetters from across the UK who are tackling the biggest health challenges of our time. This year’s report also features insights from five alumni who share their vision for the opportunities that lie ahead as we move through the pandemic and beyond.
The BioBeat20 summit, hosted in partnership with the Francis Crick Institute, explored the opportunities for adopting and investing in data-driven health.
A global audience with more than 200 attendees from across the UK, USA, Brazil and Europe joined the virtual meeting on 17 November.
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The BioBeat20 Summit, hosted in partnership with the Francis Crick Institute, brought together the life sciences community to explore the opportunities for adopting and investing in data-driven health. A global audience with more than 200 attendees from across the UK, USA, Brazil and Europe joined the virtual meeting. The Movers and Shakers BioBusiness 2020 report features the pioneers who are bringing us better health.
Accelerating cell and gene therapy was the topic of the BioBeat19 summit. Hosted at GSK Stevenage, it scrutinised how joining up science and value in cell and gene therapy can deliver global health impact. The trailblazers in biotech are featured in 50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness 2019.
From genetic and molecular information to routinely-collected NHS patient data or novel measurements from clinical trials, biomedical data is everywhere.
The BioBeat18 summit, held on 15 November at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridge, brought together scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs and investors to discuss opportunities for bringing disruptive biodata ideas to life.
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The BioBeat18 summit debated Disrupting biodata healthcare, hosted at the Wellcome Genome Campus. 50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness 2018 identifies 50 outstanding women who are revolutionising bioscience products for healthcare from the lab and the clinic to the boardroom, world of finance and ecosystem.
This Manifesto for biotech collaboration calls for strengthening the ties of biotech with academia and finance to build strong biotechs. Leaders set out key actions for success. The Manifesto arose from discussions at the BioBeat17 summit at the Francis Crick Institute.
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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.
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.
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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Sir Peter Scott’s diaries reveal above all his overriding concern with conservation. Human behaviour, history, culture and ideas also come under the scrutiny of his candid and discerning eye. The last volume records his travels in Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China, Mongolia, the Phillippines, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.
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Sir Peter Scott’s observations of natural history will interest not only scientists but also all those who have a fascination with places and their wildlife. This volume records his journeys, drawings and paintings in Hawaii, California, Alaska, Florida, The Bahamas, Iceland, Norway, Spitzbergen Greenland, Israel, Romania and Siberia.
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Sir Peter Scott travelled all over the world. Wherever he went he kept a journal in words and pictures. This volume traverses Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Africa, the Galapgos Islands, Antarctica and the Falkland Islands.
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Here are accounts by some of the world’s most eminent medical scientists outlining currently unsolved problems that lie beyond the edge of our knowledge, including scientific opinions on topics ranging from genetics to cancer and from contraception to coronary heart disease.
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The world’s most eminent scientists, among them several Nobel Laureates, explore the infinite region beyond the edge of present knowledge. In simple language, authorities in fields as diverse as space, mathematics, physics and biology address those questions most vital to the human future.
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