This year’s cohort is heavily skewed towards healthtech companies, representing 18 per cent of the total.
The UK is now third in the world for healthtech investment after the US and China, and over the course of 2020 we saw an increase in early stage investment, from $2.27bn in 2019 to $2.32bn in 2020.
Healthtech companies among the fastest-growing tech start-ups include LabGenius, which develops new protein-based drugs using machine learning – lowering the associated costs and risks of drug development; Belfast-based Locate a Locum, which enables temporary healthcare workers to connect; Oxford-based Vitaccess, a platform which quantifies patients’ experiences of treatments and illness; and London-based Blink, a communications platform for Frontline workers.
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Daphne Rubin-Vega played Mimi in em Rent. /em It was a lot of fun to actually be able to practically apply my research of partying . she says. I knew these people. I knew this world. She s pictured above with Adam Pascal in New York Theatre Workshop s 1996 production of rent.
On Jan. 25, 1996, a new rock musical by a little-known writer, Jonathan Larson, gave its first performance. Friends and family filed into a small off-Broadway theater to see
Rent. The show was a retelling of
La Boheme, set on the Lower East Side of New York, as people were dying of AIDS. It became an international phenomenon, winning the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, among others, but the performance almost didn t happen. Early that morning, Larson died of an aortic aneurysm. I spoke with some of the people who were there that night.
On Jan. 25, 1996, a new rock musical by a little-known writer, Jonathan Larson, gave its first performance. But that show almost didn t happen: Larson died of an aortic aneurysm early that morning.
the shooting death of a 13-year- old girl least loved ones and lawmakers demanding answers. how a city police officer became a focus of this intense investigation. hello, again. i m jessica kartalija. here s what people are talking about. we are learning more about that officer this noon as wjz has reported sources say the weapon used to kill monae turnage was found inside his car. wjz is life with the investigation. spent afternoon, everybody. we can tell you that police have taken a dna sample from that officer and a major focus of homicide unit is figuring out just how deep his role may have been in all of this. reporter: city leaders and loved ones have expressed outrage, disgust, and sadness over the death of monae turnage. police say the eighth grader was shot while playing with two friends and a .22-caliber rifle over the weekend. investigators believe the boys dragged her across an alley and hid her body in the backyard where her brother eventually found her after a