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The UK’s growing life science industry
A group of leading Cambridge biotech entrepreneurs and investors have co-authored a letter in today's Times with colleagues to highlight the promising future for their industry in the UK. They praise the government for its support and welcome last week's Budget...
How many women will sit in the reformed House of Lords?
While it is admirable for the House of Lords Constitution Committee to state today that we need more women judges in the UK as fewer than one in four is female, it also needs to put its own House in order to improve its representation of women. The House of Lords...
Tempting Fate offers Prince Harry advice on finding love
I met up with a former client of mine for lunch today, the lovely Liza Moore who runs a successful dating agency in the Cambridge area called Tempting Fate. There is one client I am sure she would love to get on her books, one of the most eligible young men in the...
Can a Cambridge start-up win Orange’s £200,000 prize for being different?
Sponsored Post Cambridge's innovative start-ups are among the best in the world and recognised as a special "phenomenon". Now they have the chance to win up to £200,000 worth of professional services to take their business one step further in a national...
Declining role of women in public decision making
I am joining a round table discussion today in London about the lack of involvement from women in legislative decision making on policies that affect our every day lives. It follows research conducted by the Centre for Women and Democracy who received funding from the...
Abcodia nominated for awards
I'm thrilled to be joining Abcodia's CEO Julie Barnes (pic) and COO Chris Hodkinson at the Business Weekly annual awards dinner at Queen's College, Cambridge tomorrow evening as the newly formed molecular diagnostics company has been shortlisted for two awards. I've...
EU medicinal herbal remedy laws need urgent review
The medicinal herbal remedy industry is at risk in Europe following the introduction of new EU laws a year ago, according to Greer Deal, Director of Global Regulatory Services. She tells me that the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive is being flouted by...
Women’s winning boardroom formula
It was very pleasing to learn today that the number of women on FTSE 100 boards looks likely to exceed its target, avoiding the need for quotas. "Women are joining FTSE 100 boards at such a fast rate that they are likely to exceed the target of 25 per cent female...
Sir Christopher Evans on entrepreneurs, life science and ‘knob heads’
The British life science industry is thwarted by lack of investment with a slow regulatory process which is impeding its development, said Sir Christopher Evans, the biotech king who is regarded as one of Europe's leading medical science entrepreneurs, if not the...