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The first Strategic Innovation Gateway (SIG) got underway with a hugely successful, extremely well-attended event held on the 1st May 2024 at Charnwood Campus, focused on Rehabilitation Technologies. CEO of Medilink Midlands, Melanie Davidson, welcomed everyone to the event and introduced the speakers from Loughborough University, University of Nottingham and Nottingham...

An engineering company in Chatteris is celebrating after achieving not one, but two new ISO accreditations. Advanced Precision Technologies, which manufactures complex components for the motorsport and medical sectors using 5-axis CNC machining, has been awarded ISO 9001 Quality Management System and ISO 14001 Environmental Management System accreditations. The accreditations...

The Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2024 will see a ‘winner of all winners’ awarded a £5,000 prize to help advance their innovation.  To celebrate 20 years of delivering business support to the region’s life sciences and medtech businesses, Medilink Midlands is offering a £5k prize to one lucky finalist which...

Recently Medilink Midlands CEO Melanie Davidson took place in a round table hosted by The Business Desk. The round table, sponsored by Tank, a digital marketing agency, saw clinicians, academics, healthtech and data security experts discuss the potential benefits of implementing new technologies, focusing specifically on the role of AI,...

Aimed at early stage start ups within the Essex area, the Ambitious Essex Innovation Accelerator has been created to encourage and engage with new entrepreneurs and fledgling businesses looking to commercialise their innovations. Helping to establish the project is clinician, entrepreneur and healthcare provider, Dr Poobashni Govender who, having founded...

A Government Health Minister joined the first life sciences event of Leicestershire Innovation Festival 2024. Andrew Stephenson CBE MP visited Charnwood Campus to join more than 100 delegates considering innovation as a potential solution to health disparities and inequalities. Attendees included senior representatives from the NHS, as well as clinicians,...

Pioneer Group, a company combining laboratory development and operation with venture building, has teamed up with CPI, the independent deep tech innovation organisation, to launch a Golden Ticket programme for innovations in planetary health. The 2024 Golden Ticket Programme is open to hydrogen and climate technology companies that are innovating...

Social engineering attacks, also known as ‘human hacking’, are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with cybercriminals finding new in-roads to harvest sensitive data. Techniques such as phishing and spear phishing are responsible for the majority of social engineering cyber-attacks. They are designed to manipulate employees to share personal data or credentials, which...

Applications are now open for Medilink Midlands’ Business Awards which will once again celebrate the work and achievements of life sciences companies across the Midlands. With nine categories from Start-Up to Outstanding Achievement, the 2024 awards are set to be bigger and better than ever and will highlight some of...

The sale of a vast COVID-19 testing lab in the UK is an opportunity to develop the start-up ecosystem in the Midlands region. But what form of repurposing would serve the region best: a general life sciences hub, or a specialist research and innovation centre? Both options have been floated...