BioEscalator

🆕Five University of Oxford business & med sci experts join our Board - a prestigious source of expertise for our tenants and a link to the University research base. 👋🏽 We're delighted to welcome Peter J Callow Cath Green Beth Psaila Molly Stevens and Krina Zondervan to the BioEscalator #innovation community. 🥇 With expertise across finance, genetics, biomanufacturing, blood cancers, biomaterials and reproductive health, we're looking forward to working with them. More on our new Management Board members & other news ➡ https://bit.ly/BioEnews #oxfordinnovation Nuffield Department of Medicine Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine Alethiomics Nuffield Dept of Women's & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford

Can you create a science image with a festive theme? Enter our joint Festive Science Image Competition, with the Medical Research Foundation (UK), for the chance to win up to £500. The competition is open to all Foundation and MRC-funded researchers, staff and students. Deadline 12:00pm on Friday 8 November: For inspiration, check out last year’s winning images below ⬇️ 📸 Credits: Michaela Raab, Nick Gatford, and Nathalie Lövgren and Dr Iain Tullis.

🦠 CyanoCapture awarded a #horizongrant from the European Commission to scale up microalgae cultivation!

In the 25th episode of Startup Strides, Dr. Ashwin Menon Nandakumar, co-founder of Granza Bio (YC W24), shares his journey from a small town in India to the forefront of biotech entrepreneurship. He discusses his academic background, his transition into startup life, and the founding of Granza Bio, which is pioneering a novel approach to cancer therapeutics by developing personalized and targeted treatments that harness the body’s own immune system. Ashwin emphasizes the importance of mentorship, collaboration, and his reflection on fundraising in the biotech sector. He also offers valuable advice for aspiring founders, highlighting the need to balance scientific rigor with entrepreneurial optimism. I hope you enjoy this episode! YouTube: https://lnkd.in/e_Mdsuju Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eGpnmBqS Instagram: https://lnkd.in/ekK4bUzv #vc #YC #founder #startup #biotech #therapeutics

🦠How is Ēvolvere Biosciences making #futureproof antibiotics that can outsmart bacterial evolution, target precisely & reduce antimicrobial resistance #AMR? 🎦 This great video shows how the company disrupts the bacterial survival landscape, designing products that can work against ancestor & future versions of the micro-organisms. 👍🏽 Y Combinator recognises the potential of this University of Oxford team Adam Winnifrith Weronika Ślesak and Piotr Jedryszek, alongside Oliver Waterhouse, and so do we! It's great to have Ēvolvere Biosciences as a BioEscalator tenant. More on the company and its Y Combinator story here ➡ https://lnkd.in/durfbEqv #oxfordinnovation

Our next round of international field trials is just about to start and it's even bigger than the last one, with new locations in the southern hemisphere (Australia and Paraguay) as well as follow-up trials in northern hemisphere sites across the US and Europe during the winter growing season. In this short video filmed earlier this year, Tom Clark, our global field trials manager, checks in on one of our trial sites in Tennessee, where Moa's novel herbicidal modes of action are taking on some of America's toughest superweeds... #agtech #foodsecurity #cropprotection #superweeds

From 📅 17-21 November, the world’s leading #Biotech minds will gather in London for London Life Sciences Week (LLSW) ➡ https://lnkd.in/eBUWrzUN Join us for four days of unparalleled #Networking and #Innovation 🚀 Don’t miss your chance to connect with industry leaders, investors, and innovators shaping the future of #LifeSciences 🧬✨ More information in the link above ⬆

👇 Are you an entrepreneur at Oxford? Head over to Oxford Entrepreneurs' ecosystem intro on 23rd Oct at Merton College, Oxford

Just for this week we've pressed pause on the Friday blog because we've got some amazing news to announce: Professor Lee Sweetlove is joining the Moa team! Internationally renowned for his work on plant metabolism at Oxford University, Prof Sweetlove will be working with Moa scientists on further understanding the dozens of novel herbicidal modes of action that we have discovered, and from which we are developing safe, effective and affordable solutions to fight crop-killing weeds. (And with any luck he might even appear on our blog one day... 🤞🤞 ) https://lnkd.in/eF8HSszk #agtech #foodsecurity #plantscience

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