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The 2011/2012 UCL Enterprise Annual Review
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"It’s been an excellent start to the five-year plan for Enterprise and you can read more in this review. But such is the strength, depth and diversity of our activities that it can only reflect a small proportion of the outstanding work of the UCL community. Every member of UCL is to be congratulated for a tremendously successful year and with the promise of much, much more to come."
Prof Stephen Caddick
Vice-Provost (Enterprise)
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14 February 2011: UCL Professor Mark Pepys hailed as an ‘academic superstar’ by GlaxoSmithKline
As reported in the Financial Times today, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced it aims to sign up 10 academic ‘superstars’ for long term partnerships to develop medicines more cost effectively. More...
9 February 2011: BD and UCL Business Reach Exclusive License Agreement to Advance Development of New Diagnostic Tests for Ovarian and Breast Cancers
Access to University College London’s Leading Sample Banks to Allow BD to Develop and Validate New Biomarker Assay Panels More...
8 February 2011: “In everything I do, I try to raise the bar” - Richard Barkey
This week’s Entrepreneurship Guest lecture was by Richard Barkey, the Founder and current CEO at Imparta. Richard is an Engineering graduate from Cambridge University and did an MBA at Harvard. He then joined McKinsey for seven years as a conventional consultant. During those years, specifically when working in the field of training, Barkey felt “he could do it better”. This do-it-better mentality then evolved spinning-out Imparta which turned over £9 million last year. More...
8 February 2011: £1 Million of Translational Funding to Develop a Novel Antimicrobial Catheter
The Medical
Research Council (MRC), together with Ondine Biomedical, is funding the
development of a novel antimicrobial catheter to address the increasing
problem of catheter-associated infections. UCL Professors Ivan Parkin
and Michael Wilson have been awarded an MRC Developmental Pathway
Funding Scheme award of circa £1 million to develop a light-activated
antimicrobial application for the prevention of catheter-associated
infections (CAIs) such as urinary tract infections (UTIs). UTIs are the
most common type of healthcare-associated infection (HAI), accounting
for more than 30% of all reported cases of HAIs.
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8 February 2011: Open Innovation - By Orange Labs
This
week’s ‘Entrepreneurship Guest Lecture Series’ talk was given by Jogesh
Limbani, the current Head of Open Innovation at “Orange Labs UK” based in
Chiswick, West London. Limbani completed a BEng in Software Engineering at the
University of Sheffield and an MSc in Telecommunications at UCL.
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4 February 2011: LCN researchers develop new hydrogen storage technology
Working with scientists from the STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the University of Oxford, LCN researchers Zeynep Kurban and Professor Neal Skipper and UCL graduate Dr Arthur Lovell have developed a new technology that allows hydrogen to be stored in a cheap and practical way, making it promising for widespread use as a carbon-free alternative to petrol. More...
3 February 2011: Penny Power – My Whole Life!
This week’s entrepreneurship guest lecture was given by Penny Power, Ecademy’s Founder; a social networking website “for exclusive business networking”. Power, who studied sociology and biology, began her career working in the IT sector selling computers and equipment before ultimately becoming the sales and marketing director. However, after the birth of her first daughter, she had decided to leave the company in order to spend more time with her family. More...
2 February 2011: UCL’s Knowledge Transfer Champions Scheme Takes Research out of the Laboratory and into the Spotlight
UCL Enterprise has appointed seven Knowledge Transfer Champions from UCL’s academic staff to support and celebrate some of the knowledge transfer projects going on at one of the world’s top universities. More...
1 February 2011: The UCL Colin Chapman Lotus Engineering Scholarship: the chance to make a change to the world we live in
Nicholas Mak, a Singaporean UCL MSc Mechanical Engineering student, received the first UCL Colin Chapman
Lotus Engineering Masters Scholarship on 27 January.
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