Welcome to the April issue of our ebulletin, which highlights some of the achievements and developments that have taken place across the N8 Research Partnership over the past couple of months.
Regener8 and the Medical Technologies IKC have announced a Proof of Concept funding call for regenerative medicine projects with an N8 academic lead. The call will open on 20 June 2012 at a launch event hosted by the University of York, at which Iain Gray (Chief Executive of the Technology Strategy Board) will be speaking.
METRC-supported QuantuMDx, one of the most promising biotechs to emerge from the UK is now launching its first major recruitment drive in the N8 region, creating a range of exciting job opportunities for up and coming scientists to further develop its groundbreaking technologies.
The Times Higher Education (THES) highlighted the N8 "vim” which is leaving the rest trailing, and our demographic change research was presented at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress, attended by the likes of Sir Richard Branson and Sir Terry Leahy.
Our N8 work on infrastructure, equipment and asset management was presented to national funding partners at a meeting in Manchester, and we are busy finalising our report which we will be publishing next month.
Finally the N8 Research Partnership was featured as part of a conference series sponsored by the UK Centre for Innovation and Research, as an exemplar of how universities are using collaboration as a powerful mechanism to work with business.
I hope you enjoy reading this e-bulletin and please get in touch with your comments and ideas.
Best regards,
Sarah Jackson
Director, N8
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