KE Award Winner Blogs 2021
- Space Park Leicester - Place-Based Initiative of the Year
Guest blog from William Wells, Commercial Director, University of Leicester
After a long hard journey to secure the funding, secure partners, investors, and, finally, build it during a pandemic, the first phase of Space Park Leicester opened in summer 2021 with the second phase opening just four months later in November.
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Apollo Therapeutics - KE Deal of the Year
Guest blog from Apollo Therapeutics
In July 2021, Apollo Therapeutics – a joint venture between UCL, University of Cambridge and Imperial College London with global pharma partners AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, and Johnson & Johnson Innovation - completed a $145m fundraising round.
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Turing Data Study Groups - Academic Engagement of the Year
Guest blog from The Alan Turing Institute
Turing Data Study Groups (DSGs) are intensive collaborative hackathon-type-events hosted by the Alan Turing Institute, the UK National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. The concept for DSGs was developed in 2016 by Dr Sebastian Vollmer along with Alan Turing Institute colleagues and it builds on the successful 1968 Mathematics Study Group concept.
- Virtual Forum for Knowledge Exchange in the Mathematical Sciences - KE Team of the Year
Guest blog from Drs Joanna Jordan RTTP FIMA (Freelance Mathematical Sciences KE) and Matt Butchers (Innovate UK KTN)
We were thrilled that the work of the Virtual Forum for Knowledge Exchange in the Mathematical Sciences (V-KEMS) – a joint venture between the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS), Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Newton Gateway to Mathematics, and Innovate UK KTN – won the KE Team of the Year in the 2021 PraxisAuril KE Awards! We knew the team had worked hard to develop a unique KE offering, but we still didn’t expect to win!