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🏆 Low Carbon Materials are extremely proud to have been awarded the Highways UK Excellence StartUp of the Year Award 2024! 🚧 We have been recognised for our innovative work in decarbonising construction with our drop-in material solutions. 🌐 We are passionate about developing low-carbon and environmentally friendly construction materials. ♻️ Our innovative products, ACLA® and OSTO®, are carbon-negative aggregates which can be incorporated into asphalt and concrete respectively to transform their carbon footprint. ✅ Used in several large-scale projects across the UK, every tonne of ACLA® used has permanently sequestered ~800 kg CO2e from the atmosphere! 🚗 That is an equivalent carbon saving of 2046 miles driven in the average gas-powered car. 🚀 We are excited to continue collaborating on projects across the UK to advance sustainable practices within construction, developing technology we believe will pave the way towards net zero. Did you miss us at Highways UK this week? Click here to learn more about our work and chat with our team: https://lnkd.in/eUPcgnGd #HighwaysUK #ExcellenceAwards #SustainableConstruction #LowCarbonMaterials #NetZero 

🎉 We are extremely proud to announce the successful close of a £3M funding round that will help us decarbonise construction! 🟢 The Growth Acceleration Funding was led by Ada Ventures, with additional participation from Green Angel Ventures, Northstar Ventures UK, an Innovate UK grant and sponsorship and skill-based support from Deloitte. 🏗️ With net zero deadlines approaching, the construction sector must start to reduce its impact on the planet. ✅ At #LowCarbonMaterials, our groundbreaking carbon-negative aggregates provide easy ‘drop-in’ solutions to help accelerate decarbonisation efforts in this hard-to-abate sector. 🪨 Our innovative products, OSTO® and ACLA®, are designed for use in concrete and asphalt, both huge contributors to the world's carbon emissions. 🚧 We have already had a host of real-world project successes across the country, including piloting ACLA® on the M11 motorway in Essex with National Highways, Skanska and Tarmac. 🎯 This exciting funding news is a significant step forward in advancing our mission to make net zero construction a reality.   ⭐ Thank you to our incredible investors and all those who have supported us over the years, including The Earthshot Prize, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Herbert Smith Freehills, UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), CPI, The Royal Society, SCI® Where Science Meets Business, Northern Accelerator, Durham University, Constructing Excellence in the North East, Durham County Council, MGL Group, London Borough of Redbridge, Kenson Highways, Central Bedfordshire Council, Milestone Infrastructure, Breedon Group plc, National Highways, Skanska and Tarmac. ⬇️ Read more about this massive milestone via the link in the comments below. Smruti Naik-Jones Matt Penneycard #SustainableConstruction #NetZero #LowCarbonConstruction #ClimateTech #Funding

👨🏫 EconFest Day 2: Economics, Business and Health 💹 🤝 👩⚕️ The second day of EconFest at the Darlington Economic Campus has been even more jam-packed than the first with a keynote from a bestselling author, talks from two local universities, a book and bake sale, multiple bitesize sessions and a coding workshop. Here are some of the highlights: 🛌 Bitesize Economics: Money under the mattress? Ben Russell took us through the pros and cons of the 'mattress method' for saving money and in the process explained the role of inflation, compound interest and insurance markets in everyday life. 💵 Keynote: Economics for Non-economists Rupal Patel Senior Economist at the Bank of England and best-selling author of 'Why Can't We Just Print More Money' was joined by DBT's Rachel Johnson to discuss what economics can teach us about everything from QE to carbon pricing. 📈 Deep Dive: The Economics of SME Support Keirra Smith led a great session on the business support programmes of DBT and Durham University and the potential for mutual learning and collaboration. Dominic J. and Joanna Crellin presented on the work of DBT followed by Richard Baker, Edwin Milligan, Chris H. and Natalie Craig sharing their work and projects at Durham University. 🛫 Bitesize Economics: Price Discrimination I introduced the topic of price discrimination by asking why certain airlines charge you to choose your seat and why freddos now come in multipacks... 📚 🤝 🍰 Book & Bake Sale: EconFest Edition We had a special deal at lunchtime where for £5 anyone could get an economics book and a homemade bake. In the process we raised over £150 for our two Darlington-based charities that DEC supports (Little SENDsations and Samaritans). 👩⚕️ Deep Dive: The Economics of Health Jalal Yousif and Chris lles from HMT's Health and Social Care Team chaired a session on health with Professor Susan Griffin from the University of York. Susan took us through a crash course in the economics of health and the breadth of the Centre for Health Economics' research on a vast range of topics. 👨💻 Skills Workshop: Coding for Beginners Luke, Ellen, Patricia and Matthew led an interactive workshop taking colleagues through the basics of coding in R and the innumerable ways their newfound knowledge can be put to use. Today demonstrated the breadth of ways that economics can be put to use from improving health and business outcomes to tackling climate change and saving you money on your next flight. Looking forward to another full day tomorrow with a few special guests... 👀

*NEWS* AMLo Biosciences announces this week that our prognostic melanoma biomarker #AMBLor that accurately identifies early-stage melanomas at low risk of progression, successfully received its #UKCA mark and is now available to healthcare professionals.   Dr Marie Labus, CEO, AMLo Biosciences said, “We are excited that AMBLor is available to the NHS and private hospitals. With only around 20% of early stage I or II melanomas progressing to metastatic disease, it is important to identify this group of patients that can be spared further invasive tests and lengthy follow-up schedules. This will free up much-needed healthcare resources and help alleviate NHS waiting lists for skin cancer treatment.” Read the full press release: https://bit.ly/479VHJK #dermatology #dermatopathology #histopathology #histology #oncology #skincancer #cancerresearch #biomarkers #prognostics #healthinvestment #melanoma

Proud to be announced as a “One to Watch” finalist in the 2024 Entrepreneurial Awards from the Entrepreneurs' Forum! The category celebrates entrepreneurs who are building businesses that have huge positive impact. It is always great to see Low Carbon Materials (LCM) getting recognition for our work creating groundbreaking decarbonisation solutions that are viable, scalable and high-impact. Congratulations to the other finalists Hamish Adamson of Harlyn, Ian Brown of CHESTNUT BIO, James Widmer of Advanced Electric Machines and Olusola (Sola) Idowu of Hexis Lab Limited. 

PulmoBioMed Ltd. gains crucial FDA Firm Establishment Registration! Fast-track business model validation in this Olympic year. Building on excellent quality process work, PulmoBioMed has received US FDA Firm Establishment Registration on 26th July 2024. The device manufacturer registration is a key step on the track to the launch of the PBM-HALE non-invasive deep-lung gas collection device this Autumn at the #ERS2024 congress. PulmoBioMed is making outstanding progress towards the pivotal commercial goal of US FDA Device registration later this year.