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Welcome to Issue One of the new electronic newsletter from Anglia Innovation Partnership (AIP) – the team behind the future success of Norwich Research Park, working with our esteemed partners at UEA, NNUH, the Earlham Institute, the John Innes Centre, the Quadram Institute, and The Sainsbury Laboratory .
My tenure as CEO of AIP LLP began earlier this month. With the team’s help, and support, we have already achieved a great deal including the launch of the new Enterprise Strategy with researchers and the investment community, and we are putting together an exciting new events programme to help bring our special community back together now we are in the ‘living with Covid’ phase.
To this end there will be a community barbeque, at lunchtime, on the 16th June and further details for this will be published in the coming days. I am very much looking forward to getting to know everyone at Norwich Research Park, and within the wider community, and I am looking forward to working with you all to ensure that Norwich Research Park continues to fulfil its potential as a force for good and economic prosperity locally, regionally, nationally and internationally!
Our latest articles
Enterprise Strategy Launched!
The aim of the new strategy is to turbo-charge entrepreneurship, enterprise creation and business growth and to that end AIP LLP have teamed up with a new strategic partner QUBIS, the commercial arm of Queen’s University Belfast, who have a long and successful track record of creating new technology start-ups.
UEA’s research confirmed as ‘world-leading’ by national assessment
The global significance and real-world impact of the University of East Anglia’s (UEA’s) research has been confirmed by a major nationwide analysis. The Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF2021) has classified 91 per cent of the University’s research as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.
TSL research awarded multi-million euro grant
The Sainsbury Laboratory have announced that their Executive Director, Prof. Nick Talbot FRS, and his research group were awarded a prestigious Advanced Grant of up to €2.5 million by the European Research Council (ERC).
Three key ingredients for business success
Following our enterprise launch last week Dr Pete Jackson, Chair of Anglia Innovation Partnership LLP and serial entrepreneur, explains what three key ingredients are needed to create successful businesses from scientific innovations.
Faecal transplants reverse hallmarks of ageing
In the search for eternal youth, poo transplants may seem like an unlikely way to reverse the ageing process. However, scientists at the Quadram Institute and University of East Anglia have provided evidence, from research in mice, that transplanting faecal microbiota from young into old mice can reverse hallmarks of ageing in the gut, eyes, and brain.
International recognition for JIC Scientist
Professor Anne Osbourn OBE FRS has been elected as an international member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the United States’ highest honours for scientists, engineers and health professionals.
England’s Chief Nurse presents posthumous CNO Gold Award for Norfolk nurse
The Chief Nursing Officer for England Ruth May has awarded a posthumous CNO Gold Award to Emergency Department Staff Nurse Estrella Catalan who worked at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. Estrella sadly died of Covid-19 in February 2021 after receiving treatment in the hospital’s Critical Care Complex.
Coronavirus jams communication signals to immune cells in the gut
A computer model could help to reveal how some infectious diseases – including COVID-19 – trigger an overactive immune response in certain patients, which can drive inflammation and lead to serious complications or even death.
Get to know our new CEO
Roz Bird has just joined the team at AIP LLP as CEO and shared her background, past successes and the views, values and thoughts on the strategy that will make Norwich Research Park an even greater place for businesses to start and develop.
World Food Prize Winner
The 2021 World Food Prize winner, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, delivered the second annual John Innes Foundation lecture on Norwich Research Park all about the potential for aquatic food systems to deliver environmentally-sustainable nutrition to global populations.
Monthly Park Interview
Every month we interview someone on Norwich Research Park about their important work. This month we spoke to Bushra Abu-Helil about her work into the microbiome of chickens to address animal welfare, food sustainability and zoonotic diseases like bird flu.
Monthly News Piece
Translating science into commercial products is important for making real changes in people's lives, and something that The Smarter Food Company, a spin-out from Norwich Research Park, is working on with the creation of foods with health benefits.
Interested in having a little summer get together or know someone who is? We're putting up a marquee from June 13-17th on the grass next to Centrum that you could hire! Email us if you're interested.
Events
Plants of the future open day!
With the International Plant Health Week and Fascination of Plants Day, May is the month for celebrating plants! Scientists at the Norwich Research Park invite you to come explore the wonderful world of plants with us at our Open Day on Saturday 21st May 2022.
Norwich Cancer Research Network Symposium 2022
The second Norwich Cancer Research Network symposium will take place on the 9th June. The aims of this symposium are to celebrate the wealth of quality cancer research that is going on at the Norwich Research Park and bring awareness, so that new collaborations can be formed and new projects pursued.
Advanced Python for Biologists 2022
This Advanced level workshop by the Earlham Institute is ideal for researchers and technical workers with a background in biology and a basic knowledge of Python, to develop bigger or more complicated programs and increase skills and knowledge about the language, including object-oriented approaches to programming.
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