As Innovation Lead for Precision Medicine at Innovate UK I am sometimes asked about the best STEM subjects to study, usually by parents wanting to help their children select the best university courses. Something they’re really interested in, I have …
As the deadline for our centres of excellence in medical imaging competition looms, I am thinking of all those across the UK working feverishly on their applications. It is a challenging brief, and it’s great to see that companies, clinicians, …
Many things have contributed to the NHS’s success, not least the vital role of innovation in treatment, equipment and process. Happy Birthday NHS, from - alongside many, many others - everyone at Innovate UK!
The seventh in our series of ‘Essential business tips’ covers recruitment. Putting together the right team can be time-consuming and expensive, but having the ideal mix of skills at your disposal could make the difference between success and failure. These …
Your task is to make the UK the most compelling location in the world for the development and delivery of precision medicine! Not exactly an unambitious objective given by Innovate UK to the Precision Medicine Catapult (PMC) earlier this year, …
As the saying goes: if you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got. And, at Cancer Research UK, if we’re to reach our ambition of 3 in 4 people surviving cancer by 2034, we need to …
First inspiration: learning how biology moves on so quickly From the moment I became a scientist I wanted to do something that made a difference. It’s about doing something that has a clear application in medicine and changes people’s lives …
Challenges Increasingly, innovation - across all sectors, is being driven by common factors, including: rapidly growing global population ageing demographic increasing urbanisation burden of diseases These factors are accelerating the demand for: more efficiently produced food healthier and traceable food …
Three years since we launched It’s been three years since the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult launched and I’m proud to say in that time we’ve gone from an idea to being one of the most prominent cell and gene …
Precision medicine is an emerging approach to the treatment and diagnosis of disease that takes into account variations in a patient’s genes, environment and lifestyle. The UK stakeholder landscape in precision medicine intersects: academia the clinic business The combination of …