New UNIfy festival aims to inspire with series of interactive events UNIfy Festival is a new annual event - running from April 12 to 16 - which aims to showcase the links between the University and the city. The festival is open to everyone and comprises 16 online webinars, covering a range of topics from Cars, Culture and Cinema to plans to create a virtual online 3D city. This year’s event will be online but future festivals will be based on-campus, allowing people to explore and get to know the University, its academics and researchers. There are three broad themes, based around Heritage and Culture, Building Resilience and Enterprise and Innovation.
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London South East were delighted to welcome Incanthera to our April Investor Webinar last night (6.04.2021), where Chairman Tim McCarthy and CEO Dr Simon Ward presented and took questions.
Incanthera are an AQSE-listed oncology and dermatology therapy business with close ties to the University of Bradford cancer therapy labs. They develop and licence innovative technologies for the treatment of cancer and skin cancer.
They recently raised 1.14M from an oversubscribed share placing which is intended to see them through lucrative commercial negotiations with two global cosmetic companies as they agree licensing arrangements for their innovative anti-skin cancer cream Sol.
By quickly commercialising Sol, they hope to create a regular revenue stream to develop the business as they work on a significant pipeline of other cancer treatments.
The UK has a strong genetics research base: but to date, academics have found it difficult to progress gene therapy research into clinical trials and beyond. The Sheffield Gene Therapy Innovation and Manufacturing Centre (GTIMC) is one of three new hubs, announced this month, that will tackle these challenges.
The investment in the three ‘cutting-edge hubs’ totals £18m ($24.9m), with the sites dedicated to advancing the clinical development of new genetic treatments.
The Sheffield hub will also include a GMP (good manufacturing practice) facility that will support gene therapy projects emerging from universities across the UK. As well as manufacturing clinical grade adeno-associated viruses (AVV), it will also be ready to investigate ways to ‘radically increase yields and reduce productivity barriers in future years’.
Usman A. Tar is Professor of Political Science and Defence Studies, and Distinguished Endowed Chair of Defence and Security Studies (26RC Endowment) at the Nigerian Defence Academy. He is Director of the Academy’s flagship Centre for Defence Studies and Documentation. He is a member of the board of the Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuidling Network (SSRC/APN), New York, USA. Previously he was Associate Research Fellow at the Africa Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Bradford, UK. He authored several books including
The Politics of Neoliberal Democracy in Africa (2009), G
lobalization in Africa: Perspectives on Development, Security and the Environment (2016),
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