The entrepreneurial skills of a team of early career bioscientists with ideas for food security have earned them top place in a national competition held at County Hall, London last night. The winners of the 2010 Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) competition are Laura Davies, Chris Cobb, Elizabeth Wright, Christal Fisher and Carmine Circelli from [...]

Two Manchester teams have won places in the final of a national competition to find the entrepreneurial bioscientists of the future. Joint winning teams, DentRegen and Microbe Solutions, beat off stiff competition from 18 other teams from universities and institutes around the UK in the Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (Biotechnology YES) 2010 competition. They will [...]

UMIC is pleased to announce that its Managing Director, Dr Martino Picardo, has been awarded the Biomedical Personality of the Year award 2010 at the gala BIONOW awards dinner which took place on the 11th November. Unable to attend the event himself, Dr. Linda Magee (COO, MAHSC) accepted the award on his behalf and there [...]

Over 200 people from the Northwest’s biomedical sector gathered last night (Thursday 11th November) at the 10th 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 [...]

The Rt Hon Vince Cable, Secretary of State for BusinessInnovation and Skills, visited The University of Manchester Incubator Company (UMIC) on Thursday 21 October 2010. He was given a tour of the world-class business incubation resources in the Core Technology Facility. Dr Cable met with the Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University Professor [...]

Northwest-based water treatment specialists nets £100K Northwest based company, Arvia Technology, has scooped first place in sustainability in a competition designed to support innovation at the ‘Innovate10’ event in London. As the winner in their category, Arvia, a spin-out from The University of Manchester, was awarded £100,000 to further their development of a chemical and [...]

A Proof-of-Principle project supported by the UMIP Premier Fund has been boosted by the award of a Nobel Prize for the background science. The prize was given to Professor Andre Geim and Dr Konstantin Novoselov, both at The University of Manchester, for their research on Graphene. Graphene is a flat layer of carbon atoms tightly [...]

MTI, the UK’s leading early-stage hi-tech venture capital investor and manager of the innovative UMIP Premier Fund (UPF), was presented with the “Equity Gap Fund of the Year” award at the annual ALLSTARS Investors Award ceremony in London. The UMIP Premier Fund primarily makes late-seed stage investments, planning to invest in a total of 15 [...]

Nanoco Group (LON:NANO) has received US$600,000 as a milestone from a major Japanese electronics company in relation to the design and development of quantum dots – which are used in the LED backlighting of LCD televisions. Quantum dots are fluorescent nano-sized particles of semi-conductor material which have the ability to emit light in a specific [...]

The University of Manchester’s Intellectual Property Commercialisation Company, UMIP Ltd, was shortlisted in two categories at the PraxisUnico Awards which were held at the Association’s Gala Dinner at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham on 16th June. UMIP was shortlisted in the Business Impact Aspired category for AIM-listed Nanoco. Nanoco designs, develops and manufactures [...]