Oxford Startup TalkAbout launches Tour Guide App at Bodleian
In conjunction with Shakespeare’s Dead at the Bodleian’s Weston Library: TalkAbout Guides App available 1 July – 18 September 2016, free download for iOs and Android.
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In conjunction with Shakespeare’s Dead at the Bodleian’s Weston Library: TalkAbout Guides App available 1 July – 18 September 2016, free download for iOs and Android.
The latest technologies stemming from research at Oxford and Cambridge were presented Tuesday to investors at an event held at the Royal Society of Chemistry. With 17 spinouts already this calendar year, the two universities report that a similar joint event last year led directly to investment in several of the ventures that presented.
Oxford University Innovation will be renamed Oxford University Innovation, in order to enhance the already strong links between Oxford University Innovation and the University1. This will strengthen awareness of the company and its services within the wider University, and better portray the University’s ownership of the company.
Oxford spinout EvOx Therapeutics will harness the body’s own precision communications system to deliver drugs to specific parts of the body, with the aim of treating conditions which are currently untreatable including those affecting the brain, as well as autoimmune diseases and cancers.
Universal flu vaccine developed at Oxford already showing promise in Phase II clinical trials. Large investment of £10m from Oxford Science Enterprises. Further programs include vaccines to boost cancer immunotherapies.
One of the most ambitious Oxford spinouts to date is on route to becoming a powerhouse in age-related regenerative medicine, developing drugs which can treat cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, heart failure, macular degeneration and other major age-related conditions
Oxford Nanoimaging -- a University of Oxford spinout -- will commence sales of an elegant desktop optical microscope capable of zooming in on objects as tiny as structures inside living cells. This super-resolution microscope will allow scientists to watch how individual molecules perform chemical reactions in real-time.