Edinburgh Innovations

The Power of Innovation is here! Read our Annual Review of innovation activity at the University of Edinburgh.🎉 It has been an exceptional year of impact. At the University, we’re breaking down barriers and fostering innovation by applying world-class research to the world’s challenges. We are proud of our many partnerships that have accelerated innovation and enabled the University to achieve joint first in the world for the UN SDG9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure in the 2024 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings. Discover the biggest innovation projects, partnerships and successes including our three research missions: 🍃 Tackling the climate and environmental crisis 👩💻 Harnessing data, digital and AI for the public good 🩺 Shaping the future of health and care. Discover the Power of Innovation ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e_McT29s The National Robotarium| MiAlgae| Wobble Genomics Ltd |Carcinotech Ltd | Neuranics| Aveni| ATTA Breastmilk Community| Kynos Therapeutics| Gradatim| AlveoGene| TownRock Energy| IDCORE - EPSRC Industrial CDT for Offshore Renewable Energy| BRAID UK | EIE| Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh|Smart Data Foundry| Edinburgh Earth Initiative| Bayes Centre| Edinburgh BioQuarter| Edinburgh Futures Institute| College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh| School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh| Scottish Development International| carbogenics| Scotland's Life Sciences Conference & Awards |Scottish EDGE| CanCan Diagnostics Ltd| EPSRC| Julie Anne Jacko, Ph.D.|Andrea Taylor| Ian Hatch| Susan Bodie| Aileen Appleyard| Dora Handrea| Barbara Blaney| Andrea Young| Caroline Woodside| Lorraine Kerr| Christina Boswell| Old College Capital| #innovation #collaboration #unlockinginnovation

Congratulations to School of GeoSciences spinout Carbogenics for securing half a million for its sustainable biochar technology 🎉 Learn more ⬇️

A new £50m Centre aims to develop the first therapies to stimulate heart repair and regeneration in patients with heart disease. Researchers at the MRC/BHF Centre of Research Excellence in Advanced Cardiac Therapies (REACT), co-led by the Universities of Edinburgh, Oxford and King’s College London, will work closely with the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult and with companies including AstraZeneca, AskBio and Batavia Biosciences to collaborate on tasks such as screening libraries for therapy targets and accessing gene therapy delivery technologies. They will also work with Syncona, a large venture capital firm in London, to drive further investment and progress toward application of the technology in patients. Read more ➡️https://eil.ac/REACT/L Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult| AstraZeneca| Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. (AskBio)| Batavia Biosciences| Syncona Limited | British Heart Foundation | The University of Edinburgh | University of Oxford | Medical Research Council King's College London | Andy Baker| Mauro Giacca| UK Research and Innovation #innovation #collaboration #Cardiology #Clinicalsciences #Medicaltechnologies #Therapeutics #Tissueregeneration #repair

Edinburgh Innovations invites you to our AI Frontiers: Explore Data Science Frontiers webinar! This webinar will provide companies from various sectors with the opportunity to access the latest research and expertise from the University of Edinburgh. Participants will have the chance to hear from our experts, Rosie Wilkie, Head of External Engagement, School of Mathematics and Professor Patrick Rubin-Delanchy chair of Statistical Learning at the University of Edinburgh will introduce the latest data science research and expertise at the University of Edinburgh. 📅11 December ⏰14:00-15:00 Sign up today ➡️https://lnkd.in/eAKbJbu9 The University of Edinburgh | University of Edinburgh, School of Mathematics #ai #webinar #AIMday #digital

Congratulations to our four winners in the Scottish EDGE national business awards: student startups Sunsave Solutions, SimPat, SolarSub and Creator Campus 🎉 Teodora Handrea, Student Enterprise Manager at Edinburgh Innovations, said: “We are proud to be supporting these innovative, solutions-focussed students and graduates, who are making their ideas work for a better world.” Read more ➡️https://lnkd.in/e-XeUMBx The University of Edinburgh| Andrea Taylor| Dora Handrea | College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh| Edinburgh Medical School| University of Edinburgh Business School| University of Edinburgh School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences|   

Follow the ambitious journeys of our Innovation Fellows who are harnessing their research to improve the world around us✨ Meet Dr Shama Rahman, designer, scientist, AI researcher/practitioner and Founder of NeuroCreate, an AI-driven, Neuroscience-designed digital platform enabling ‘Flow’ peak performance mental states by enhancing creativity. As an Innovation Fellow, Shama will ask how we can create and integrate technology more intuitively via people and planet-centred design, while simultaneously boosting creativity, well-being and productivity. Discover more about Shama and her innovation project ➡️https://lnkd.in/et5e6Gmd The University of Edinburgh| Imperial College London| Goldsmiths, University of London| Shenkar & Hasso-Plattner Institute | Edinburgh Futures Institute | Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh| School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh #innovation #collaboration #research #ai #Neuroscience #unlockinginnovation

📣Are you looking to collaborate with The University of Edinburgh's leading experts on Digital Frontiers? You can explore answers with experts from across the University of Edinburgh, by registering your challenges for our AIMday Digital Frontiers event! At this event you will participate in workshops where your questions are discussed with academics from relevant university disciplines: -Data Science -Supercomputing -Electronics -Digital Communications -AI, speech technology, and NLP - And more! Participate in this hybrid event on the 26th February 2025 by submitting your questions by the Friday 13 December 2024! Submit your questions ➡️https://lnkd.in/ef5PbkJj College of Science and Engineering, The University of Edinburgh| Hjalmar Eriksson| Ian Hatch | Bayes Centre| Isobel Dew | Charlotta Cederqvist #aimday #digital #ai #tech #event #hybrid

Funding available to support proof-of-principle studies, industry engagement and commercialisation activities. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) support has been provided to enable translational and commercialisation activities and engagement with industry, policy-making bodies or other stakeholders, from BBSRC-funded research. The fund aims to increase, advance and accelerate the achievement of impact from BBSRC investments in excellent bioscience research and capabilities. 📅 Deadline 5pm, Wednesday 12 February 2025. ❗ Learn more and apply now ➡️eil.ac/BBSRCIAA/L The University of Edinburgh |Emma Elliott | Hjalmar Eriksson #funding #research #bioscience

Yesterday, our staff enterprise team hosted Scottish Enterprise and the Maxitope Team for a project kick off meeting and lively discussion of the next steps to build the company, product, and pipeline towards launch in 2025. Maxitope, a startup on the Scottish Enterprise High growth Spinout programme, has developed a promising new way to improve target selection for antibodies and immunotherapies to develop more effective treatments. The team have successfully completed an ICURe program and will be refining their market and customer engagement while building up the team and pipeline. Scottish Enterprise| Jonathan Dempsey| Nick Gilbert | Patrick Kearns | Charles Dixon | Kristina Tamane| Axel Thomson

Edinburgh Innovations invites you to our AI Frontiers: Explore Data Science Frontiers webinar! This webinar will provide companies from various sectors with the opportunity to access the latest research and expertise from the University of Edinburgh. Participants will have the chance to hear from our experts, Rosie Wilkie, Head of External Engagement, School of Mathematics and Professor Patrick Rubin-Delanchy chair of Statistical Learning at the University of Edinburgh will introduce the latest data science research and expertise at the University of Edinburgh. 📅11 December ⏰14:00-15:00 Sign up today ➡️https://lnkd.in/eAKbJbu9 The University of Edinburgh| University of Edinburgh, School of Mathematics #ai #webinar #AIMday #digital