Bio-spark Entrepreneurial Programme

Reminder: our deadline is tomorrow! Submit your application using the link below 👇

Looking to take your first steps in research translation and entrepreneurship, but not sure where to start? The Bio-Spark Exploring Fellow Programme has you covered: ✅ Mentors from biotech, pharma, and investment ✅ Firsthand knowledge of the startup ecosystem in Cambridge ✅ An insider’s look at cutting-edge companies ✅ A start-up pitch showcase 🚨 Apply by 31 October: https://bit.ly/3Ys4zaY Cancer Research Horizons Milner Therapeutics Institute Cambridge Gravity

The deadline for Company-seeding and Exploring fellowships has been extended to 30th September! 🤩👇

🚨Only a few days left to apply🚨 Don’t miss out! Apply here: https://lnkd.in/ebMYRqfD

🌟 Join Bio-spark 2024-25 🌟 Founded by Prof Sir Tony Kouzarides, Bio-spark supports researchers (including, but not limited to PhDs, Post-Docs and Clinicians), with entrepreneurial and industry-centric exploratory support. 🤝 Supported by partners including: AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Altos Labs, Syncona Limited , Cambridge Innovation Capital, Cambridge Enterprise and Cancer Research Horizons. The three Fellowship Streams: Company-Seeding Fellows: For those with company ideas 💡 Challenge-Solving Fellows: Part-time, flexible biotech, pharma, and investment experience 🔬 Exploring Fellows: Entrepreneurial and industry career explorations 🚀 Applications Timelines: Company-Seeding & Exploring Fellowships: Apply Now, deadline 15th Sept Challenge-Solving Fellowship: Opens end of next week, deadline 21st Aug All Fellows Gain Invites to Networking Events (Nov 2024 - Jun 2025): Partner company presentations 🎤 Speed-networking with mentors 💼 Visits to company partners 🏢 Investor & Challenge Pitch Events 💡 Miss out on your first choice fellowship type this year? You'll be automatically considered for an Exploring Fellowship! 🔄 🔗 Apply today and learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eVr8Q6Ss

Don't miss this fantastic interview with Professor Cigall Kadoch by Cambridge Gravity. Cigall shares insights from her influential research and its profound implications for the future of medicine 🤩👇 Cigall – who was a Milner Symposium speaker last year – is a renowned expert in chromatin and gene regulation. She is a Professor of Pediatric Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Cigall has received numerous awards for her pioneering research in understanding chromatin remodeling complexes and their roles in cancer. She is the co-founder of Foghorn Therapeutics Inc., a company dedicated to developing therapies that target chromatin regulation to treat cancer and other diseases. Cigall's groundbreaking work aims to translate scientific discoveries into innovative treatments. Don't miss it! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eu8CErDq

🌟 Join Bio-spark 2024-25 🌟 Founded by Prof Sir Tony Kouzarides, Bio-spark supports researchers (including, but not limited to PhDs, Post-Docs and Clinicians), with entrepreneurial and industry-centric exploratory support. 🤝 Supported by partners including: AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Altos Labs, Syncona Limited , Cambridge Innovation Capital, Cambridge Enterprise and Cancer Research Horizons. The three Fellowship Streams: Company-Seeding Fellows: For those with company ideas 💡 Challenge-Solving Fellows: Part-time, flexible biotech, pharma, and investment experience 🔬 Exploring Fellows: Entrepreneurial and industry career explorations 🚀 Applications Timelines: Company-Seeding & Exploring Fellowships: Apply Now, deadline 15th Sept Challenge-Solving Fellowship: Opens end of next week, deadline 21st Aug All Fellows Gain Invites to Networking Events (Nov 2024 - Jun 2025): Partner company presentations 🎤 Speed-networking with mentors 💼 Visits to company partners 🏢 Investor & Challenge Pitch Events 💡 Miss out on your first choice fellowship type this year? You'll be automatically considered for an Exploring Fellowship! 🔄 🔗 Apply today and learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eVr8Q6Ss

We had a fantastic time at our annual Cambridge Gravity Committee Retreat in Spain! It was a wonderful opportunity for team building and creative brainstorming, setting the stage for exciting events and opportunities in the upcoming academic year🤩 The retreat was also the perfect setting to celebrate Tony Kouzarides being awarded a knighthood for his outstanding contributions to healthcare innovation and delivery. Join us this Friday for a dual celebration: the Final Bio-spark event of the year and the knighthood of Sir Tony Kouzarides👑 Reserve your spot here: https://lu.ma/z801e5tt P.S. A big thank you to our company partners and mentors -Zahra Jawad, Mark O'Connor, Maja Wojtynska, Jonty Corrin and James Patterson for attending the retreat and providing invaluable mentorship and support to our committee members🙏🏼

Congratulations to Bio-spark founder and director Sir Tony Kouzarides!

Registration for #MilnerSymp24 closes in 6 days! Don't miss: 🤩 Sir Stephen (Steve) Jackson, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute 🤩 Todd Golub, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard 🤩 Sarah Teichmann FMedSci FRS, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute 🤩 Jill C Richardson FRSB, MSD 🤩 Simone Fishburn, BioCentury Inc. 🤩 Dave H., Exscientia 👉 https://lnkd.in/dTZpXzgB