Our IMAGINE IF! Finalists battle it out showcasing their scientific ideas via live pitches to our judging panel who decide the winning team. The Cambridge IMAGINE IF! Programme is a local competition and pre-accelerator program tailored for health-tech and life sciences early-stage ventures. The program aims to foster the commercial ideas of scientific and techaaa

Mentoring Early-stage Science Start-ups and Creating Successful Ventures Innovation Forum Cambridge interviews IMAGINE IF! Mentor Miranda Weston-Smith Miranda has mentored and judged the IMAGINE IF! competition and accelerator programme in Cambridge for several years.  We talk to her about being a mentor, the life sciences sector in Cambridge, and creating successful ventures.     Innovationaaa

The next big frontier in medical research and innovation: mental health.   About this Event Although there has been a gradual change over the past 20 years in the recognition and public acceptance of the importance of mental health problems, there is a persistent translational gap between preclinical research and psychiatric treatment. Novel strategies areaaa

  The World Health Organisation calls climate change “the greatest threat to human health in the 21st century.” We need innovative solutions. The scale of the climate crisis is immense – and its repercussions are toxic to human health. Whether through rising temperatures, air pollution or changing patterns of disease, climate change is having a profoundaaa

Since the dawn of time, ageing has been viewed as an inevitable fate, with conditions like cancer and dementia becoming more common as we get older. A growing number of scientists are questioning this common assumption. What if ageing was just another curable disease? Would there be ways to extend our lifespan from today thanksaaa

A summit to explore building sustainable healthcare businesses with biodata At the BioBeat18 summit on Disrupting biodata healthcare on Thursday 15 November 2018, leaders will explore how to build biodata healthcare businesses.  With the convergence of data and biology the technological possibilities are vast.  How we deliver them for a healthier world, in a sustainableaaa

Join the global IMAGINE IF! network of Innovators across 16 branches world wide, competing for the non-dilutive $30,000 award. The participation is free, don’t miss this opportunity and apply now! Registration deadline for local finals will vary. If you miss your local deadline you can still apply through the independent stream by the 14th of July 2016. Innovation Forum’s Cambridge branch invites you to theaaa

Epigenetics is the next frontier of genome science. Put simply: a change of phenotype without change in genotype; look at it more closely, and it opens a myriad of new avenues for research from evolutionary biology through physiology to pharmacology. But how far have we gone in our understanding of basic epigenetic processes and is epigeneticsaaa