This episode we explore Positive Impact. UCLB is helping to create a new generation of businesses from UCL academics specifically with positive societal impact at their heart. The commercialisation process can be a long road requiring financial, legal, and practical support.
Nigel Campbell meets two inventors, Buffy Price Co-founder and COO of Carbon Re, an AI and Climate Tech company spinout from UCL and Cambridge, and Professor Pete Coffey from UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Founder of Tenpoint Therapeutics; both who are on that journey on how their inventions might improve our future world.
We also talk to Dr Anne Lane, CEO of UCLB to find out how UCLB finds the bright ideas which will improve lives, and what it takes to scale to a point where they are having true impact.
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2/9/2024
In this episode, Katy Bruce, CFO of UCL Business, and Charu Gorasia, CFO of UCL, will discuss the mutually beneficial relationship between the technology transfer office, such as UCLB, and the university. They will dive into the research income financial cycle and how the commercialisation income is distributed back into the research ecosystem. This podcast will also cover the challenges around commercialisation income, how to tackle these and what does the future hold
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11/17/2023
In the ninth episode of this podcast series, Ana Lemmo Charnalia, Senior Business Manager at UCLB, is in conversation with Orla O’Donnell , Divisional Manager at the UCL Div of Biosciences and former Chief Operating Officer of Health Digital CIC, a Community Interest Company incorporated in 2015 to commercialise HeLP-Diabetes. It is also an opportunity to celebrate Professor Elizabeth Murray’s life, who led the development of HeLP-Diabetes. Join them in this discussion about their experiences and learnings from an early-stage social venture to the national roll-out of an online programme for people with Type 2 diabetes.
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9/14/2023
Over a 15 year journey, UCLB spinout company Senceive Ltd became the world leader in the design, manufacture and supply of wireless enabled remote condition monitoring solutions for use in rail and construction applications. Recognition of the innovative and scalable nature of Senceive’s solutions to keep people and critical infrastructure safe, led to the company being acquired by Eddyfi in April 2021. In this podcast, Senceive’s now retired CEO Graham Smith and Dr Steven Schooling from UCLB discuss their experiences and learnings as they turned an early-stage university spinout into a highly successful and profitable commercial enterprise, which at exit generated strong returns for all shareholders
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8/22/2023
In the seventh episode of this podcast series, Jessica Bolton-Murray, Head of Project Management at UCLB, is in conversation with Tanel Ozdemir, Investment Manager for the UCL Technology Fund. The Project Management team at UCLB provides support and direction to any number of project at UCLB, working towards a commercial endpoint. The team have been providing bespoke project management services to all UCL Technology Fund projects, since inception in 2016 and have built a close working relationship, enabling them to move funded projects from proof of concept (POC) to licencing. Join them in this light-hearted discussion to find out how to access services, the challenges of POC, and what could be in store for the future
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7/18/2023
From chronic diseases, the climate crisis, to social injustice, how are we tackling the biggest problems of the 21st century? As UCLB celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2023, this new monthly podcast series will explore how we have supported UCL academics to create impact across several areas, such as: medical research, patient healthcare, the environment, and our wellbeing in a contemporary society.
New episodes will be released every third Thursday of each month.
Soundtrack by Harry Penfold and Thomas Shearwood.
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6/13/2023
In the fifth episode of this podcast series, Marina Santilli, UCLB Associate Director, Engineering & Physical Sciences is in conversation with Dr. Daniel Hulme, CEO and Founder of Satalia. Satalia was UCL’s very first AI spinout company which is now part of the WPP Group of global companies. Daniel and Marina discuss how AI can help businesses make better and faster operational decisions by leveraging data, optimisation algorithms and machine learning techniques leading to significant savings and additional revenue. Daniel also discusses a holistic approach to a digital workforce and the future of AI in the light of recent progress in the field of generative AI
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5/17/2023
In the fourth episode of this podcast series, UCLB’s Director of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Dr Steven Schooling, is in conversation with Marina Santilli, UCLB Associate Director, Engineering & Physical Sciences about the development and scaling of UCLB’s express licensing platform e-lucid (https://e-lucid.com/). Early in her UCLB career, Marina recognised that there was a need for more effective tools to manage the licensing of lower value IP assets such as software and materials and in this podcast they discuss the journey from creating a minimum viable solution which addressed UCLB’s initial licensing needs through to the evolution of the e-lucid platform into a tool which has been adopted by some of the world’s leading universities, technology transfer and research organisations as they seek to enhance their impact outcomes.
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4/19/2023