Dr. Constantinos Theodoropoulos and Professor Colin Webb from the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science at The University of Manchester are the recipients of the prestigious 2011 IChemE Innovation and Excellence Award for Bioprocessing for their work on “Sustainable biorefineries through the co-production of fuels and chemicals: The biochemical production of succinic acid from [...]

Over 200 people from the Northwest’s biomedical sector gathered last night (Thursday 24th November) at the 11th Northwest Biomedical Awards at Mere Golf and Country Club. This prestigious awards dinner celebrates key achievements from companies and individuals who have made a significant contribution to the biomedical sector during 2011. The awards, organised by Bionow, were [...]

A multi-disciplinary University team from the School of Mathematics (EPS) and Manchester Business School (Humanities) has developed a novel means of helping mining companies accurately calculate reserve valuations and specify optimal production decisions. The technology provides a solution to an inaccurate methodology used as common practice within the mining industry for the past 40 years [...]

Pioneer in the treatment of acute and chronic dysphagia secures additional VC funding to accelerate commercialisation strategy Manchester, UK. 4th October 2011 –University of Manchester spin-out company, Phagenesis Ltd, the global leader in the treatment of dysphagia (inability to swallow safely) today announced that it has closed a €7 million Series B funding round designed [...]

UMI3 director Bryan Bodek has been named Ernst & Young Business Products and Services Entrepreneur of the Year 2011. Mr Bodek who is chief executive of Airline Services' serves on the UMI? board as Non Executive Director (Independent Director) Deputy Chairman. His former roles have included being a former lawyer with Manchester legal firm Kuit [...]

University of Manchester (UoM) spin-out company, BiOxyDyn, has secured a £650,000 investment from technology investment specialists MTI Partners (MTI), through its UMIP Premier Fund (UPF). BiOxyDyn, only established in 2010, has also secured nearly £500,000 of orders for its unique services from leading global pharmaceutical companies, bringing its total income to in-excess of £1m. Established [...]

National Grid, Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution, The University of Manchester Intellectual Property (UMIP) and The UMIP Premier Fund (UPF), managed by MTI Partners, are pleased to announce a £1 million Co-Managed Energy Innovation Fund. The Co-Managed Energy Innovation Fund has been created to identify and develop novel research and technologies for commercialisation and [...]

Over the past few months UMIC has been holding a Low Carbon and Environment Competition (LCEC). This competition was set up to draw out innovative, commercially viable Low Carbon projects from academics within The University of Manchester. The competition consisted of 3 heats, alongside a series of workshops designed to help applicants shape their idea [...]

National Grid’s 2009/10 Innovation Funding Incentive annual report describes Arago Technology’s composite cross arm technology as an electricity transmission innovation which should lead the way to the first major improvement in line configuration for decades and which is world-leading in concept Arago Technology was spun out of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in [...]

MTI, the leading UK technology venture capital investor, announces the sale of Myconostica Limited, the first investment in the UMIP Premier Fund (UPF), to Cambridge UK-based, Lab21 Limited, for an undisclosed sum. Myconostica develops and markets PCR based in vitro diagnostic test kits for the rapid diagnosis of life-threatening fungal infections and stems from the [...]