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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 20h

Did you attend BioCentury Inc.’s Grand Rounds Europe conference in Cambridge last month? ✨

Read our takeaways from the event at the link below, and feel free to add your own in the comments 👇

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Milner Institute joins BioCentury’s Grand Rounds Europe conference - The Milner Therapeutics Institute

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 1d

Testa Challenge: Verify your technical or digital innovation 🚀

Organised by @TestaCenter – a non-profit company owned by @Cytiva, this challenge is for companies in the technology/digital/data/IT sector to test and verify their technology.

testachallenge.com

Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 2d

🚀 Bringing discoveries to life through partnerships and enterprise: How to engage with the Milner Therapeutics Institute. An event held in collaboration with @CambNetwork.

🗓️ 3 November, 4:45-6:45pm 
📍 West Hub

🔗 www.cambridgenetwork...

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 5d

Did you that the Founders Growth Community offers free workshops and masterclasses, designed specifically for founders and CEOs navigating the scale-up, commercialisation, or growth stages of their ventures? 🚀

Check out the LinkedIn page here: www.linkedin.com/com...

Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 6d

Testa Challenge: Verify your technical or digital innovation 🚀

Organised by Testa Center – a non-profit company owned by @cytiva.bsky.social, this challenge is for companies in the technology/digital/data/IT sector to test and verify their technology.

testachallenge.com

Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 7d

Have you explored our refreshed website? 👀 Earlier this year, we restructured the Milner website around our three strategic focus areas:

🧬 RESEARCH
🤝 PARTNERSHIPS
🚀 ENTERPRISE

Visit our new website here: www.milner.cam.ac.uk

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 8d

How to Approach US Investors & Raise Funds 🚀

Join FGC and Paul Sekhri, President & CEO of vTv Therapeutics, for insights on navigating the US investment landscape & positioning your company to raise capital.

📅 20 Nov
📍Cambridge
🔗 lnkd.in/euZUuCuR

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 9d

🚀 Applications are open for the Bio-spark Entrepreneurial Programme!

Are you an early career researcher hoping to consider options outside the academic world? Are you looking for advice, experience or mentorship?

🗓️ Apply by 13 Oct
🔗 www.gravity.cam.ac.u...

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations to Milner affiliate Abselion for winning The Award for Collaboration at the Cambridge Indy Business Awards! 🏅

Also to CardiaTec, who were highly commended in the category of Small Business of the Year! 👏

🔗 www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/business/win...

Photo by Keith Heppell.

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 12d

The call for the second Cohort of the Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme is now open! 🧠

This is a bold opportunity for innovators and original thinkers who aspire to revolutionise neurotechnology.

⏳ October 1
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Transforming brain health - Cambridge NeuroWorks

Building a future where neurological disorders no longer limit human potential. We bring diverse minds together to fearlessly collaborate and to fund breakthrou…

cambridgeneuroworks.org

Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 13d

Be in the room where ideas begin!

@camrare.bsky.social #RAREsummit25, 3 patient voices will pitch research ideas shaped by their communities & lived-experience priorities in the Rare Disease Research Network Showcase.

Tickets: www.camraredisease.o...

Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 13d

Join @aiclubbiomed.bsky.social for talks on Quantum Computing in Biomedicine!

🗓️ 2 October
⏰ 5:15pm
📍Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre

Speakers: Kate Marshall, IBM Quantum & University of Oxford: “An Introduction to Quantum Computing and Applications in Biosciences”

www.milner.cam.ac.uk...

Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 14d

📣 Milner Seminars: Focus on spatial biology

Please join us tomorrow for the next instalment of our seminar series, with talks from Esther Baena (Owkin Science) and Mats Nilsson (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social and @sangerinstitute.bsky.social)

Find out more and register: ow.ly/YgA450Wu1UW

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 15d

🚀 Join the future of neurotechnology innovation! Cambridge NeuroWorks is recruiting for two key roles at Babraham Research Campus:

💡 Commercialisation & Impact Builder
💡 Accelerator Cohort Administrator

Deadline: 26 Sept.

Apply here: www.babraham.com/vac...

Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 16d

We are delighted to announce that Daiichi Sankyo has joined the Milner Therapeutics Consortium!

Through the Consortium, Daiichi Sankyo will be able to establish research collaborations of mutual benefit with academics across Cambridge.

Read more at: www.milner.cam.ac.uk/daiichi-sank...

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 16d

Founders Growth Community: 1:1 meetings with pharma companies

🗓️ 25 September
⏰ 2–4pm
📍The Glasshouse, Cambridge

This month’s networking session has reached capacity, but you still have until 8 September to request 1:1 meetings with pharma companies!

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Medicine at Cambridge @medcambridge.bsky.social · 19d

Time for lunch! Don't forget to check out what our wonderful exhibitors have to offer at their stands⬇️

Cambridge Enterprise | @lifearc.bsky.social | @milnerinst.bsky.social Flagship
Pioneering partnership

@medcambridge.bsky.social #ResearchDay @vpd-hlri.bsky.social

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 19d

Be in the room where ideas begin!

@camrare.bsky.social #RAREsummit25, 3 patient voices will pitch research ideas shaped by their communities & lived-experience priorities in the Rare Disease Research Network Showcase.

Tickets: www.camraredisease.o...

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CambridgeCardio @cambridgecardio.bsky.social · 20d

All welcome to the next seminar in our series: Caitlin O'Meara of @medicalcollegeofwi.bsky.social. Reactivation of Pro-regenerative Macrophage IL-13 Signaling to Promote Cardiac Functional Recovery in Adults. Thurs 25 Sept, 1-2pm @vpd-hlri.bsky.social

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 20d

We welcomed two groups taking walking tours of the @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social yesterday, as part of Open Cambridge! Dr Shaun Maguire was pleased to present an overview of research at the Functional Genomics Screening Laboratory (FGSL).

www.milner.cam.ac.uk/research/

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 21d

Founders Growth Community: 1:1 meetings with pharma companies

🗓️ 25 September
⏰ 2–4pm
📍The Glasshouse, Cambridge

This month’s networking session has reached capacity, but you still have until 8 September to request 1:1 meetings with pharma companies!

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 22d

The call for the second Cohort of the Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme is now open! 🧠

This is a bold opportunity for innovators and original thinkers who aspire to revolutionise neurotechnology.

⏳ October 1
🔗 connecthealthtech.mn...
🔗 cambridgeneuroworks....

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 23d

Apply now for the Bio-spark Entrepreneurial Programme! ✨

If you can think beyond usual boundaries, have an appetite for innovation & are in search of intellectual spark that will make a difference to human health, this is the programme for you. 💡

www.gravity.cam.ac.uk/bio-spark/

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 23d

🚀 Join the future of neurotechnology innovation! Cambridge NeuroWorks is recruiting for two key roles at Babraham Research Campus:

💡 Commercialisation & Impact Builder
💡 Accelerator Cohort Administrator

Deadline: 26 Sept.

Apply here: www.babraham.com/vac...

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 26d

Founders Growth Community: 1:1 meetings with pharma companies

🗓️ 25 September
⏰ 2–4pm
📍The Glasshouse, Cambridge

This month’s networking session has reached capacity, but you still have until 8 September to request 1:1 meetings with pharma companies!

forms.cloud.microsof...

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