Faculty appoints DfE strategy chief Tom Nixon to lead government practice
Tom Nixon has left his role as the Department for Education’s strategy chief to head up British AI firm Faculty’s new government practice.
Taking the RF lab outdoors - CRFS launches portable, high-fidelity RF recorder
RF hardware and software innovator CRFS announces the launch of its new RFeye SenS Portable, a small, lightweight, high-fidelity RF recorder for long-duration signal recording and playback, with applications in defense, manufacturing and telecommunications.
Recycling the previously non-recyclable
Lots of cat foods and certain drinks come in pouches made out of plastic aluminium laminate. This is a decent material environmentally, because it’s so light compared to pure aluminium, so it saves resources and fuel during transportation. But until recently it couldn’t be recycled at all. That’s changed thanks to a company called Enval, which has developed a process to separate the plastic from the aluminium. And supposedly this technique both powers and pays for itself. Phil Sansom went to visit the plant and meet Enval CEO Carlos-Ludlow Palafox...
CRFS unveils RFeye AirDefense
CRFS, a global leader in RF spectrum monitoring, management and geolocation solutions, prepares to unveil its passive 3D airborne tracking system, RFeye AirDefense, at the 56th Annual AOC International Symposium & Convention in Washington DC next week (October 28-30).
Thought Machine Helps Standard Chartered Launch Digital Bank in Hong Kong
Standard Chartered has selected Thought Machine to provide core banking capabilities for its new digital bank launching in Hong Kong, reports Alex Hamilton of Fintech Futures (Finovate’s sister publication).
Arecor and JDRF sign a joint research, development and commercialisation agreement
Arecor Ltd, the biopharmaceutical company advancing today’s therapies to enable healthier lives, announces that it has signed a Research, Development and Commercialisation agreement with JDRF, the leading global organisation funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research.
Repositive launches world-leading directory of preclinical cancer models on Science Exchange
Cambridge, UK and Palo Alto, CA, USA -- Repositive today announced that its Cancer Models Directory, containing over 5,300 preclinical cancer models, is available on Science Exchange, the widely used technology platform for outsourced R&D.
Cambridge to trial crowdfunding open access book
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is launching a crowdfunding campaign to publish a book under the open access model.
Healx raises $56m as it targets rare diseases with AI
A $56million funding round is being announced today by Healx, the Cambridge company using artificial intelligence to find new treatments for rare diseases.
Sorex has $323bn market in its cross-hairs on product launch
Cambridge University spin-out Sorex Sensors has launched its first product based on its breakthrough sensor technology.
Featurespace expands global fraud and financial crime expertise with addition of industry veteran
Featurespace, the world-leader in fraud detection, risk prevention and Anti-Money Laundering monitoring, announced the addition of Dena Hamilton as the company's newest Fraud and Financial Crime market expert.
Healx and ICR to develop AI-derived treatments for rare childhood cancer
Cambridge-based Healx, which uses AI to repurpose drugs to fight rare diseases, has forged an important new partnership to help combat a rare childhood cancer.
Double boost for mental health research
A £35 million mental health research programme led by the MRC will explore what makes teenagers more or less likely to develop mental health problems and how we might intervene early.
King bids to become queen of women entrepreneurs
Martina King, the CEO of Cambridge machine learning company Featurespace, is a contender for the coveted Woman Entrepreneur of the Year crown in Business Weekly’s 30th anniversary awards. The accolade is once again sponsored by the university’s Cambridge Judge Business School.
Thought Machine to provide SEB with core banking platform
London-based fintech Thought Machine has entered into a partnership with the Swedish financial group SEB in order to deploy its core banking system into the strategic initiative SEBx.
Círculo de Crédito and Featurespace partner to innovate the fight against application fraud in Mexico
Featurespace, the world-leader in fraud detection and risk prevention, and Círculo de Crédito, a leading credit bureau in Latin America, have announced a partnership that will introduce the ARIC™ platform to Mexico, bringing a more effective defense against application fraud to lenders in the market.
Dr Ramsey Faragher wins outstanding achievement accolade by industry experts
On Friday 20th 2019 at the annual GPS World Dinner held at the Institute of Navigation GNSS+ Conference, Dr Ramsey Faragher, Founder & CEO of Focal Point Positioning was presented with the prestigious GPS World signals leadership award for their groundbreaking SuperCorrelation technology.
Dosing complete in Phase I clinical trial of ultra-rapid acting insulin product candidate for diabetes
Arecor Limited, the biopharmaceutical company advancing today’s therapies to enable healthier lives, today announces completion of dosing and all patient visits in its Phase I clinical trial for its ultra-rapid acting insulin product candidate, AT247.
ICR Collaborates With AI Drug Discovery Company To Develop Treatments for Rare Childhood Cancer
Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, are working with Healx, a biotech company specialising in artificial intelligence (AI) to discover new possible ways of treating diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), an essentially untreatable brain cancer in children.
Ieso plots mental healthcare by AI with launch of Eight Billion Minds
Ieso Digital Health is aiming to build the next generation of mental healthcare by creating autonomous artificial intelligence-powered tools for patients.