Cambridge Wide Open Week (CWOW) returns 11–19 June 2026, sharing the spirit and buzz of the week-long, interactive festival with Oxford and London for the first time. The Cambridge-Oxford-London corridor is widely regarded as one of the most productive life...

Cambridge’s global reputation for science and technology isn’t just built on invention. Innovation is actively engineered and fine-tuned in the city - and nowhere is this more evident than the Impulse programme, the University of Cambridge’s flagship entrepreneurship initiative. Impulse curates...

A top laboratory equipment supplier is ‘keeping it local’ with the first ever installation of its pioneering system at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Vapourtec’s peptide builder is designed for use in new drug research and development. Peptides form crucial...

A biotech start-up has relocated to Norwich Research Park to continue work on its successful anti-bug products. BugBiome is developing new bioinsecticides from crop microbes (tiny living organisms). This year the company is concentrating on field trials for its lead pesticide...

Is your company looking to transform an innovation from the lab to commercial reality? Do you have an idea or research project with business potential but need skills and support to make it happen? Applications are now open for Ignite’s intensive,...

Chesterford Research Park has appointed Glencar to undertake construction of its new Sidney Sussex Building, which is expected to deliver over 60,000 sq ft of laboratory and office space. Owned by Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva...

Plans for a 44,650 sq.ft. laboratory building in the ‘Golden Triangle’ of Cambridge, Oxford and London have been submitted. This new building would bring developer Abstract’s total footprint at SCSC to 182,900 sq. ft of lab space. Cambridge - a global...

The publication of a new study commissioned by the Government Office for Science (GOS) earlier this year highlighted the East of England as a hotspot for biotechnology adoption and commercialisation.  The study titled ‘Life Sciences Beyond Human Health - A...

The city’s booming biotech sector has welcomed a new addition. Revvity, Inc. - specialists in life sciences and diagnostics - have opened a centre focusing on genomic insights for drug discovery and development. Genomics is the study of human genes and...

R&D Tax Credits have been part of the tax legislation for more than 20 years. They have gone through various changes over that period of time and that has never been more true than right now. Research and Development Tax...

British Patient Capital has invested £20m in local deep-tech and life sciences businesses, through the Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) Fund. CIC is a venture investor backing and building category-leading deep tech and life sciences companies. It manages over £1/2 billion...

New university ARU Peterborough and inventors of LCD 3D printing Photocentric have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore joint research projects, develop apprenticeships and continue professional development (CPD) routes. Photocentric is moving into the new £16.7m Manufacturing and Materials...

Age Care Technologies, the lead partner in research carried out by Suffolk’s Integrated Care Academy, has won the 2021 World Summit for the Information Society Prize for Innovation in Healthy Ageing. ACT won the prestigious award after seeing off competition...