Links
HOWARTH LAB
Entrepreneurship
Judge Business School
Enterprise Tuesday
networking, as well as company creation programmes (
Ignite
,
Accelerate
,
EnterpriseTECH
)
Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciencies
(CATS) research initiative for training re
searchers and connecting to industry
Milner Therapeutics Institute
connecting Cambridge academics to industry partners
Start-up accelerator schemes in Cambridge by
Start Codon
and
O2H
,
who run the
Open Cambridge
day for exploring the city’s high tech facilities,
and
Nucleate,
focused on student entrepreneurs.
Cambridge Enterprise
for tech transfer and seed funding
Cambridge Innovation Capital
for venture capital funding
Chris Abell Postdoc Business Plan Competition
run by
Entrepreneurial Postdocs of Cambridge
SpyBiotech
spun out from lab
Next Pharma Phenomenon
session on start-ups and pitching competition,
organised by Mark.
Cambridge University Technology & Enterprise Club (CUTEC)
student society
Altos labs
with Cambridge scientists for anti-ageing revolution
Non-Cambridge key sites:
In the Pipeline
blog on chemistry and drug discovery
Fierce Biotech
news
List of
Fastest growing Companies in Biotech
Y Combinator
videos and Paul Graham
essays
on start-up creation
Key books:
Research to Revenue
,
Startup Owner’s Manual
,
Zero to One
,
Serious Creativity
,
Black Swan
,
Inventology
Lab online resources
SpyInfo and SpyBank
database for SpyTag-related papers, patents, sequences.
Protein alphabet
(video, PDB links, related art)
Lab YouTube channel
including playlists “Music to SpyTag to” and “Music to mak
e vaccines to”.
Cambridge cultural events
Student newspapers:
Varsity
The Tab
Local newspapers/magazines:
Cambridge Independent
Cambridgeshire Live
Cambridge Edition
Music:
Cambridge classical music concert calendar
Corn Exchange
King’s College choir
Trinity College music society
St. John’s College choir
Theatre:
ADC Theatre
Shakespeare Festival
University seminar
listings
Journalism and the public understanding of science
Ideas Festival
, where with some of my lab we showed school children how to extract DNA from strawberries (e-mail for instructions) or
diagnose malaria with a mobile phone. Also see
Cambridge Science Centre
events and
Cambridge Festival
in March.
Cambridge University
Science News
Bad Science
: also a column in the Guardian, challenging and making fun of pseudoscience
and misrepresented science that is presented as fact on TV and in newspapers. From
clustered water to underpowered clinical trials, this is both fun and important.
Avant-garde chefs
discuss cooking with Harvard engineers
The Diamond Age
- you need to read this novel brilliantly imagining a future built on nanotechnology, where children are accompanied
by computerised teachers. Also
Quicksilver
by the same author, a novel with Isaac Newton as a key character.
The Checklist Manifesto
- How to get things right
Online Seminars
Fly-on-the-wall documentary
on a graduate student's struggles and successes in research (from Columbia).
Podcasts
from Cambridge University
iBioSeminars
from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
TED.com- e.g.
George Whitesides
: A lab the size of a postage stamp
MIT
(Howard Zinn, Stephen Wolfram)
Harvard YouTube
channel
Henry Stewart Talks
(series of teaching lectures from famous people in different biological areas).
NIH
(Chad Mirkin, Stefan Kaufmann inspiring talk on a new TB vaccine, Lichtman on the brainbow)
Princeton
(Matt Ridley, James Randi, Daniel Liebeskind, and the author of Freakonomics)
MIT OpenCourseWare
, which freely distributes MIT teaching resources
including lecture slides, reading lists, and problem sheets of courses from Mechanics to Epidemiology
Cambridge research networks
Cambridge Biosciences Doctoral Training Programme
Nanoscience Doctoral Training
Cambridge University Synthetic Biology Society
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CONTACT
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