A partnership of four Midlands universities has successfully bid to set up a £6m state-of-the-art regional cryo-electron microscopy centre. It will be based at the University of Leicester whose bid was supported by the universities of Warwick, Nottingham and Birmingham. A total of £3.7m of the funding has been provided...
Changing of the Guard at AdamsonJones
Founder of AdamsonJones, East Midlands-based firm of patent and trade mark attorneys, Dr. Steve Jones has stepped down from his previous role as executive Chairman with ownership of the company passing to managing director Simon Cooper and director Nic Ferrar. Simon said “Steve’s retirement from the business has been several...
£86 million funding announced for new medicine and technology
The government has announced new funding of up to £86 million for UK firms to develop medical breakthroughs. The package will allow small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop and test new technologies in the NHS. This could include innovations such as digital technologies to help patients manage their...
Medilink East Midlands Innovation Day creates valuable collaboration opportunity
Two organisations; Promethean Particles and Enterprise Europe Network were in the right place at the right time when they attended Innovation Day 2017; Medilink East Midlands’ premier annual event which brings together businesses, clinicians and academics from across the region. Promethean Particles started in 2008 as a spin-out company to...
Fresh Logistics commence a million chilled bottles sampling campaign with TRO and Ribena
Fresh Logistics, a temperature controlled logistics company with headquarters in Derby will embark on a major project in conjunction with TRO and Ribena that involves supplying over a million chilled bottles to two-hundred and twenty-five specific destinations around the UK over the next five weeks as part of a sampling...
Family fun day helps raise over £1,000 for deaf people
Nottingham based deaf charity, The Ear Foundation, held its Annual Open Day fundraising event on Saturday 1st July, raising over £1,000 towards its services to help deaf children, teenagers and adults at its centre in Lenton, Nottingham. There was fun for all the family including a bouncy castle, face painting...
QS Pharma receives approval from European Medicines Agency to manufacture products
Philadelphia, US, and Nottingham, UK, 27th June 2017: QS Pharma, the Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO), which was acquired by Quotient Clinical (“Quotient”) in February 2017, today announced it has received approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to manufacture certain medicinal products for commercial use in Europe. QS...
IoD East Midlands 2017 Awards
Dr Nik Kotecha OBE, Chief Executive Officer of Morningside Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Leicestershire was named as the Institute of Directors (IoD) East Midlands Director of the Year at an awards event on Friday 23rd June 2017. Praised by the judges for his vision of “making quality healthcare an affordable and accessible...
A better deal for diabetics
UK Medical tech firm Nemaura Pharma's light-touch insulin delivery invention looks set to be no pain, all gain for diabetics who dread injections. Latest tests showed patients did not feel or barely felt its super shallow micro-needle memspatch IMD. Once loaded with a preconfigured dose it is placed flat against...
£5.1m Innovation Hub will help next batch of entrepreneurs
More than £5 million is being spent on a new innovation centre to support the next generation of inventors and entrepreneurs. The University of Leicester is creating the Innovation Hub to "incubate and accelerate a production line of ideas" – from initial conception to commercial success. It will give business...
