S2S, the Science to Start-up workshop series, is a fundamental programme that teaches how to establish a start-up in today’s fast-paced  and competitive market. Herein we provide a brief summary of the events.     9th of May – Idea generation/ Lean Canvas  Davide Turi gave an inspirational talk on the step-wise approach to generatingaaa

Marina Rincon-Torroella is passionate about analyzing and improving the healthcare system. She defines herself as a workaholic; something that we found apparent when we looked at her career path so far. She works at Mayo Clinic and wears many hats. Her main focus at Mayo Clinic is to assist with their business development. Outside ofaaa

BioMe Oxford is a start-up company based in Oxford, UK, founded by Oxford PhD graduates.  Our mission is to unlock the gut microbiome for research and healthcare applications.  To do this, we are developing an accurate and cost-effective solution for targeted gastrointestinal sampling.   There is growing evidence showing that variations within the microbiome are associatedaaa

The 2017 edition of the IMAGINE IF! accelerator program attracted enthusiastic response from global innovation and R&D networks during the application period held over June–September. Applications from over 200 companies have been evaluated. Local finalists across Innovation Forum branches worldwide were selected in August on the basis of their business plans and the potential ofaaa

Grand Challenge is the most ambitious cancer research grant in the world – a series of £20m awards seeking international, multi-disciplinary teams willing to take on the toughest challenges in cancer – providing the freedom to try novel approaches, at scale, in the pursuit of life changing discoveries. In the first round, 9 teams wereaaa

Last June, the Innovation Forum partnered with J&J Innovation to organise the “She started it“ event in Oxford. The evening started with a screening of a film, co-directed by journalists Nora Poggi and Insiyah Saeed, that features five women founders in the tech sector. It showed the true and raw reality of being an entrepreneuraaa

Do you have a great idea for a science-based start up? Join the global network of innovators across 16 branches world wide, and become a scientist-entrepreneur via our IMAGINE IF! accelerator! Innovation Forum invites you to participate in the 4th edition of the first truly global competition and accelerator program for science-based ventures.  IMAGINE IF! accelerator’s mission isaaa

Are you an ambitious entrepreneur, researcher, academic or scientist looking to transform an innovation and prepare it for commercial reality? Are you looking to invigorate innovation within your company, build skills and strengths in the R&D teams, maximise the potential of new ideas and revitalise business in these challenging economic times? Ignite is an intensive,aaa

The Innovation Forum is pleased to partner with the Milner Therapeutics Institute and Entrepreneurial Postdocs of Cambridge (EPOC) to launch the Milner Innovation Representatives programme. This initiative will allow us to identify cutting edge research with translational potential. The Milner Innovation Representatives who are all dedicated volunteers in Cambridge will proactively reach out to otheraaa

On 1st June at Bush House, Aldwych in London, Innovation Forum King’s College London will be hosting an event on The Future of Science Innovation: Building Collaborations between Academia Start-ups and Industry The event will include an interactive panel discussion that will aim to dissect key factors for successfully starting and maintaining industry-start-up collaborations, and how canaaa