Plasma Clean Limited, a hi-tech spin-out from The University of Manchester has been awarded a £112,829 Grant for Research and Development from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) Based in the Stockport Business Incubator, Plasma Clean specialises in odour control and air purification solutions utilising non-thermal plasma technology. Grant for Research and Development, is part [...]

The ISO 9001:2000 certified specialist oligonucleotide reagent manufacturer, Link Technologies Ltd, is pleased to announce an exclusive license deal with The University of Manchester Intellectual Property Limited (UMIP) to the University’s “Exciplex” technology. Exciplex diagnostic probes offer ultra-biospecificity and significantly increased detection sensitivity over conventional systems due to negligible background signal. At the same time, [...]

The University of Manchester’s intellectual property commercialisation company, UMIP, was voted Technology Transfer Office of the Year at the Genesis biotechnology conference in London last night. The judges at the Gala dinner, held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, awarded UMIP the top prize, despite strong competition from the other two shortlisted companies; Cancer [...]

The University of Manchester’s award winning intellectual property company (UMIP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Sharon O’ Kane as its Entrepreneur in Residence. Sharon will be engaging in an advisory role with UMIP to enhance the University’s spin-out company and licensing activities and to encourage intellectual property entrepreneurship at the University. Sharon, [...]

Renephra and Myconostica are part of the UMIP Premier Fund which is managed by technology specialists MTI Partners, who invest in hi-tech, high growth companies. Myconostica was awarded the ‘Innovation in Diagnostics Project of the Year’, at this year’s Northwest Biomedical Awards dinner, whilst Renephra received the ‘Emerging Technology Project of the Year’ at the [...]

Over 200 people from the Northwest’s biomedical sector gathered last night (Thursday 12th November) at the annual Northwest Biomedical Awards at Mere Golf and Country Club. The awards, organised by Bionow, the Northwest Regional Development Agency’s (NWDA) biomedical cluster support group, were a resounding success and showcased the very best of the region’s world class [...]

Dr Christian Zakian from the School of Dentistry at The University of Manchester has been awarded a prestigious accolade for his pioneering work in the biomedical field. Christian claimed the ‘Promising Northwest Biomedical Technologist of the Year’ at the North West Biomedical Awards for his work on an invention that allows mapping of carious lesions [...]

Manchester hi-tech specialists back Lancaster business Manchester Technology investment specialists, MTI Partners, has announced its latest investment through the UMIP Premier Fund (UPF) in North West start up CableSense Ltd. The company has developed an innovative new approach to managing large scale, wide structured cabling systems, and MTI has made a £500,000 investment deigned to [...]

A team led by Prof. Tony Peyton from the University of Manchester School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has been shortlisted in The Engineer Technology & Innovation Awards 2009. A submission by UMIP Licensing Manager Simon Clarke for the project ‘Advanced Microstructure Analysis using Induction Spectroscopy (AMAIS)’ was shortlisted by the judges in the Process [...]

University of Manchester Professor, David Sandoz thanked UMIP recently when he collected the prestigious Sir Harold Hartley Medal from the Institute of Measurement and Control. The medal is awarded by the Institute to a person whose contribution to the technology of measurement and control is considered to be of outstanding merit. The award to Professor [...]