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Health and wellness business incubator to be located in the Nottingham Enterprise Zone

| May 21, 2013 | 0 Comments

Alliance Boots today announces a collaboration with BioCity, the UK’s leading bioscience incubation company, to establish a new business incubator focused on health and wellness called MediCity.

MediCity, a new subsidiary of BioCity, will provide innovative start-up and growing businesses in the health and wellness sector with fully serviced office and laboratory space, based within the Nottingham Enterprise Zone on the Alliance Boots site in Beeston. It represents a promising step in the site’s development and will encourage new businesses into the Nottingham area.

Filed Under: BioCity Nottingham

Search begins for international cricket hospitality Ambassadors

| May 15, 2013 | 0 Comments

Nottingham-based temporary personnel provider Michael Wisher & Associates is looking to recruit 500 quality candidates from across the East Midlands to fulfil hospitality and catering assignments for this summer’s cricket season, including the Investec Ashes Test and NatWest Series One Day International matches at Trent Bridge. As cricket fans, visitors and media from around the world converge on Nottingham, the chosen hospitality teams will be expected to act as ambassadors for both the city and the venue.

BioCity to develop BioHub at Alderley Park

| May 7, 2013 | 0 Comments

BioCity Nottingham Ltd, the UK’s leading provider of life sciences business incubation services, has been appointed by AstraZeneca to establish a new centre for bioscience companies at Alderley Park in Cheshire. The BioHub, will initially provide 36,000 sq ft of high-end laboratory and office facilities for early-stage and growing firms engaged in innovative drug discovery and development. Demand for accommodation is expected to be competitive with the first three tenant companies due to move on site today.

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BioCity refurbishment to enable tenant growth

| May 2, 2013 | 0 Comments

BioCity Nottingham has completed a major refurbishment of office suites and central communal areas worth in excess of £450,000. The building reconfiguration and redecoration in the UK’s busiest bioscience business incubator began in December 2012 and was officially completed in March this year. BioCity’s position in the heart of Nottingham’s new Creative Quarter continues to attract ambitious life science start-up companies looking for the best facilities as well as on-site business advice.

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Ushering in a new era for Scottish life sciences

| April 23, 2013 | 0 Comments

Scotland, UK: BioCity CEO to deliver key address at BioScotland on 30th April

Scottish ambitions to double the life sciences sector by 2020 could be realised if the ‘perfect storm’ of prevailing conditions are grasped and built on, according to CEO of the BioCity Group Dr Glenn Crocker.

Filed Under: BioCity Scotland

Leicester’s Renfrew Group’s Temporary Side Room is “an example of innovation tackling healthcare challenges”

| April 10, 2013 | 0 Comments

At the recent NHS Healthcare Innovation EXPO in London, Leicester company, Renfrew Group International helped demonstrate the depth of innovation expertise in the East Midlands. By winning the ‘Service Challenge’ category of the Innovator’ Den competition, sponsored by the Technology Strategy Board, Renfrew ensured that two of the three available categories were won by companies who travelled to the EXPO with Medilink East Midlands.

Filed Under: Medilink East Midlands

“Innovators Den” opens window on the future of Clinical Decision Support

| April 5, 2013 | 0 Comments

The capabilities of NHS Innovation when brought together with industry were demonstrated at the recent NHS Healthcare Innovation Expo when iQudos, an IT company spun out of Derby Hospitals Foundation Trust, won one of three awards in the exhibition’s “Innovators Den” facilitated by the Technology Strategy Board. The award for Digital Innovation recognised the enormous potential of the first clinical expert system to be registered as a medical device and deployed in clinical practice in Europe.

Filed Under: Medilink East Midlands

Stoke Students are among the first Industrial Cadets

| March 23, 2013 | 0 Comments

Pupils from two Stoke schools are among the first Midlands students to graduate as Industrial Cadets, an initiative launched by HRH The Prince of Wales and co-ordinated by national education charity EDT to link schools and local industry. Twenty four students from Haywood Engineering College and the Co-operative Academy of Stoke on Trent have worked with Steelite PLC and a consortium of companies convened by The Prince of Wales’ charity Business in the Community (BITC). Their graduation as Industrial Cadets is to be held on Monday 25th March in the Board Room of Port Vale Football Club from 2.30pm.

Filed Under: EDT National

Students challenged by life on a school island

| March 8, 2013 | 0 Comments

On Tuesday nearly 90 Year 8 school children from the Solent area are set to tackle tough team building challenges set by the Royal Navy at HMS Collingwood in Fareham. However these challenges will be nothing compared to the task they face in the following 10 weeks as they use their mental and team work strengths to compete in 15 teams to produce the best project which tackles the issues that they would face if their school was an island.

Sygnature Discovery selected as an SME Partner in €196 Million European Lead Factory, the pan-European Drug Discovery Platform

| March 8, 2013 | 0 Comments

Major pharmaceutical companies, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and academia join forces in an IMI-supported Public Private Partnership (PPP) to accelerate early drug discovery and so address the ever-increasing need for innovative therapeutics to tackle unmet medical needs.

Filed Under: Sygnature Discovery