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Past Events

OBN BioThirstday

17.30-20.00 Jam Factory, Hollybush Row, Oxford OX1 1HU Free informal networking event open to all working in life sciences. Further information and registration details here.

Event Types: Partner event

Harwell Healthtec Connect

11.30-13.00 ESA ECSAT, Harwell OX11 0FD Healthtech and life sciences cluster networking event including the following short presentations: Drug discovery and new models of innovation – Prof Chas Bountra, Structural Genomics Consortium Access to micro gravity labs for life sciences research – Alan Brunstrom, European Space Agency Further information and booking details here.

Event Types: Partner event

De-risking the valley of death

17.30-21.00 Said Business School, Oxford OX1 1HP How R&D companies can access the knowledge network to maximise success. The ‘valley of death’ phase in the development of an R&D company is identified as the phase from one to six years, where they are moving from lead generation through to phase 1 development. There are many […]

Event Types: Partner event Strategic and Industry Partnerships

Digital health technology catalyst briefing

12.00-13.00 Webinar Innovate UK webinar to support applications for Round 2 of the digital health technology catalyst. Further information and registration details here.

Event Types: Partner event

The growing and ageing population: implications and solutions

17.00-18.00 Oxford Martin School, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BD Professor Sarah Harper, Director of the Oxford Institute for Population Ageing, will explain how population change will transform the world and looks at what we can do to meet the challenges that lie ahead. Further information and booking details here. This talk is part of the ‘Health: […]

Event Types: Partner event

Innovation and entrepreneurship in the NHS

17.30-20.00 UCL Partners, 170 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 7HA Masterclass led by clinical entrepreneurs Maryanne Mariyaselvam and Peter Young. Further information and booking details here. There is a small charge for this event. Find out more about the medical devices invented by Maryanne and Peter which are improving patient safety in critical care in these videos […]

Event Types: Partner event Patient safety Clinical Innovation Adoption

NIHR funding calls

10.30-15.00 Great Hall, King’s College London, WC2R 2LS Are you a company developing a medical technology for mental health? The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) runs funding programmes inviting applications from industry for funding either as a lead organisation or as co-applicants with NHS or research partners. The theme of the 2018 funding call is ‘Promotion of good mental health […]

Event Types: Partner event

Partnership models in the NHS

09.00-16.30 King’s Fund, London W1G 0AN King’s Fund event focusing on partnerships between NHS, industry and others to patient outcomes through innovation. Speakers include Mike Hannay, Chair of the AHSN Network. Further information and booking details here. There is a charge for this event.

Event Types: Partner event

The power of recombination to create innovation

14.30-15.30 Oxford Martin School, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BD From biology to technology, a powerful mechanism to create innovation is recombination – the formation of new systems by combining old parts in new ways. Professor Andreas Wagner, Professor and Chair in the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, will discuss a biological system that […]

Event Types: Partner event