Cambridge Nucleomics

So many companies – plus visitors from as far afield as the US and Switzerland – backed last week’s Cambridge Wide Open Day that organiser Prashant Shah of o2h group is extending the event to Cambridge Wide Open Week for 2025. A total of 21 host venues took part, from Cambridge Science Park in the North to Melbourn and across to Haverhill, and much in between. Some 177 companies and speakers hosted a mix of talks, presentations, demonstrations, tours, masterclasses and booth stands – providing the broadest offering of cutting-edge Cambridge science, tech and innovation for the visitors. The West Hub at the University of Cambridge showcased 16 of the Cambridge West companies including British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge Nucleomics, Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge, Semarion, YPMH: The Foundation For Young People's Mental Health and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). Allia hosted 21 speakers/companies at its two main sites in Cambridge – at its Future Business Centre campus in King’s Hedges, home to a cluster of CleanTech and ‘Tech for Good’ startups, and at the Cambridge Guildhall centre in the heart of the city. Prashant Shah, creator of Cambridge Wide Open Day said: “Cambridge Wide Open Day (CWOD) has been so popular for two years, next year we will be extending it to Cambridge Wide Open Week (CWOW). “We will be bringing community and influencers together in a week-long event of activities, which will include a life science awards event, a biotech bikers day as well as the regular Cambridge Wide Open Day on the Wednesday. We’ve already tested the idea, and it’s going to be very exciting. So, block out your diaries already for a whole week dedicated to life science and biotech on 9-14 June 2025.” One of this year’s CWOD visitors, Elvina Petrėnaitė-Kartanė, founder of workplace design specialist SynergiSpace, said: “It’s been incredible to have this opportunity to see what’s behind the normally closed doors of the Cambridge science parks, universities, businesses and other facilities. Wow, there are so many wonderful, hidden gems! As with last year, I ran out of time to see everything, so I am looking forward to seeing more with the week-long event next year.” Full article – https://lnkd.in/e3CQ57Vs

Three biotech businesses founded by alumni of Cambridge Judge Entrepreneurship Centre programmes have been awarded the top three spots at the prestigious The Trinity Bradfield Prize competition run by the The Bradfield Centre and Trinity College Cambridge.  The overall winner of the £10k prize was Cambridge Nucleomics. Cambridge Nucleomics is a #biotech spinoff from the University of Cambridge which offers a fully automated point-of-care sepsis test in under an hour. CEO and co-founder, Hendrik Runge PhD, is an alumnus of Cambridge Judge Entrepreneurship Centre’s #EnterpriseTECH STAR (2019) as is his co-founder Mohammed Alawami (2021). The Cambridge Nucleomics team also participated in #AccelerateCambridge.   Second place and a prize of £5k was awarded to Compound Hound. The company produces a breath sensor which helps determine if a newborn is suffering from jaundice. Founder Melanie Whitfield PhD is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge and an alumna of our EnterpriseTECH (2021) programme, as well as contributing as an inventor on an earlier programme.  The Hellings prize of £5k was given to BioTryp Therapeutics which has developed a new class of biofilm inhibitors that provide an alternative to traditional antibiotic treatments. Ashraf Zarkan PhD, a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, is one of our recent EnterpriseTECH inventors (2024) and co-founder, Cameron Croft, is also an EnterpriseTECH (2023) alumnus.  Our congratulations to all concerned on their achievements. We are pleased to have supported you on your #entrepreneurial journey. Our thanks also to the Trinity Bradfield Prize organisers and judges for creating this opportunity for science and tech entrepreneurship. The finalists will also benefit from mentoring and complementary membership of The Bradfield Centre at Cambridge Science Park where the competition was staged. The Chair of the Judges, Sir Greg Winter, also announced a new prize for next year's competition. The Angel Prize will be awarded to the team that can demonstrate the most progress towards their stated milestones, and both 2022 and 2023 finalists are eligible.   Find out more about the Trinity Bradfield Prize: https://lnkd.in/dwQ-bJK  Kerry Baldwin Anne Dobrée Robert Swann John Yeomans James Parton Maximilian Ge Ann Davidson Stelios K. Cambridge Judge Business School

Top spots for #CambridgeJudge biotech founders! 🏆3 biotech businesses founded by alumni of Cambridge Judge Entrepreneurship Centre programmes have been awarded the top three spots at the prestigious Trinity Bradfield Prize competition, run by the The Bradfield Centre and Trinity College Cambridge. Congratulations to Cambridge Nucleomics, Compound Hound and BioTryp Therapeutics and their Founders Hendrik Runge, Mohammed Alawami, Melanie Whitfield, Ashraf Zarkan and Cameron Croft, all alumni of the #EnterpriseTECH and #AcclerateCambridge programmes. Read more about these award winning businesses! 👇 #trinitybradfieldprize #cambridgesciencepark

Extremely proud to win The Trinity Bradfield Prize, one of the most coveted start-up prizes in Cambridge, for our one-hour diagnostic test for sepsis. This medical emergency is associated with every fifth death worldwide but no existing test is good enough. Pictured Nobel laureate and chair of judges Prof Sir Greg Winter awarding the prize to our CEO Hendrik Runge, alongside second prize winners Melanie and Ashraf. We are raising!