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TreQ Takes a Quantum Leap with Milton Park Move
Feb 14, 2025 | Member News, Milton Park
TreQ, a US-based quantum computing start-up, has announced it has moved to a new production facility in Milton Park. The move follows the company being oversubscribed in a $5 million seed funding round. TreQ builds its quantum systems to enable technology leaders at...
LYVA Labs Invest £100k into CCI Photonics for a Med-Tech Device that Detects Bacteria in Urinary Tract Infections, to Improve the Accuracy of Antibiotic Prescribing
Feb 13, 2025 | Member News, Sci-Tech Daresbury
LYVA Labs has invested £100K into the University of Lancaster spin-out, CCI Photonics Ltd (CCI), to support the development of a point-of-care diagnostic test for urinary tract infections (UTIs). The 15-minute test will also identify the correct antibiotics to...
Discovery Park Welcomes 11 Oncology Start-Ups for an Immersive Business Growth Programme
Feb 13, 2025 | Discovery Park, Member News
Eleven early-stage companies working in oncology have started ‘Discovery Spark’, a free seven week development programme hosted by leading science and innovation campus Discovery Park. Designed to offer start-ups the skills and tools to lay healthy foundations in...
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Forthcoming UKSPA Regional Meetings Announced
Nov 26, 2024
The next series of regional meetings for UKSPA Full and Associate Members, and key stakeholders have been announced. UKSPA regional member meetings provide a great opportunity to knowledge share, network with peers and shape the direction of UKSPA’S regional agenda....
Life Sciences: Translating, Scaling and Manufacturing
Nov 5, 2024
Andy Williams, chair of the Oxford-Cambridge Supercluster Board, led a discussion on translating, scaling and manufacturing in the life sciences sector as part of UKSPA’s 40th anniversary conference at Warwick University. He said: “We do have great science and we're...
Venture Capital – Public Markets
Nov 5, 2024
Improving access to public market funding for life science companies UKSPA’s conference at Warwick University saw a discussion chaired by association board member Prashant Shah, CEO of the O2h Group, on funding the UK’s life sciences sector from public markets. It...
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Why Regional Hubs are Critical to Biotech Success
Jan 22, 2025
The Next Biotech Breakthrough Won’t Happen in Isolation. By Gary Jennings, Innovation Director, The EpiCentre, Haverhill The biotech sector is pivotal in innovation and scientific advancement and is going from strength-to-strength. But often for start-ups in this...
Forthcoming UKSPA Regional Meetings Announced
Nov 26, 2024
The next series of regional meetings for UKSPA Full and Associate Members, and key stakeholders have been announced. UKSPA regional member meetings provide a great opportunity to knowledge share, network with peers and shape the direction of UKSPA’S regional agenda....
Life Sciences: Translating, Scaling and Manufacturing
Nov 5, 2024
Andy Williams, chair of the Oxford-Cambridge Supercluster Board, led a discussion on translating, scaling and manufacturing in the life sciences sector as part of UKSPA’s 40th anniversary conference at Warwick University. He said: “We do have great science and we're...
Venture Capital – Public Markets
Nov 5, 2024
Improving access to public market funding for life science companies UKSPA’s conference at Warwick University saw a discussion chaired by association board member Prashant Shah, CEO of the O2h Group, on funding the UK’s life sciences sector from public markets. It...
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