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UCL partners with Amazon Web Services to accelerate digital innovation with societal impact
UCL has joined forces with Amazon Web Services to speed up innovations in healthcare and education through the UCL Centre for Digital Innovation (CDI). Find out more about the partnership: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/enterprise/case-studies/2024/sep/ucl-partners-amazon-web-services-accelerate-digital-innovation-societal-impact Film produced by ‪‪filmbright‬
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9/11/2024
UCL Hydrogen Showcase - shorter version
UCL is a leading hub for hydrogen activity and innovation in the UK. The UCL Hydrogen Innovation Network hosted a Hydrogen Showcase to demonstrate UCL’s capabilities for hydrogen activity and innovation in the UK. They brought together some of the leading voices on hydrogen research within industry, academia and government. The event emphasised collaboration as the most effective way to utilise hydrogen to achieve the UK’s net zero goals by 2050 and a sustainable energy future. Find out more about the UCL Hydrogen Showcase: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/nov/hydrogen-critical-achieving-net-zero-goals-minister-says-during-ucl-east-visit
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9/10/2024
Tremors Vs Tremors Parkinson's Project
The Tremors vs Tremors project, in collaboration with creative agency Innocean Berlin and audio production company DaHouse, has created a series of bespoke songs based on the personal narratives, favourite genres and tremor recordings of five people with Parkinson’s. The album was launched by a team of UCL researchers, to help provide relief for people with the condition. Find out more about the project: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/mar/researchers-transform-parkinsons-tremors-music
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9/5/2024
Gene therapy develop at UCL transforms lives of people with haemophilia A

A new treatment for people with haemophilia A, developed at UCL, is offering a new quality of life for people with the debilitating disease.

The technology was developed by Professor Amit Nathwani (UCL Cancer Institute and Institute of Immunity & Transplantation) and his team at UCL and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA.

It was licensed by UCL Business (UCLB), the commercialisation company for UCL, to BioMarin Pharmaceuticals Inc. in 2013.

Find out more in the case study on the UCL Innovation & Enterprise website.

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4/12/2024
Positive Impact:  A new generation of business with society at heart
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
Disability Innovation Lectures: Innovation for Inclusion
Watch Professor Sujatha Srinivaasan, as she discusses the development of home-grown technologies, alongside business models which support venture growth in low-resource settings.
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11/17/2023
Exploring circular solutions in fashion
Fashion companies currently rely on fast fashion: making new things, selling them, and then hoping we buy more.

UCL Innovation & Enterprise brought UCL’s community together with Liverpool John Moores University, Barclays Eagle Labs, and SevenStore.com to explore sustainability, innovation and techniques to repurpose existing garments.

Find out more about how we’re supporting UCL academics to work with external partners to solve challenges facing individuals, organisations and society: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/enterprise/innovation-challenge-events-and-funding
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9/25/2023
Innovation in women’s health
Working with Barclays Eagle Labs, UCL Innovation & Enterprise brought together UCL researchers and external partners to explore current challenges in women’s health and ideas for innovative solutions.

Find out more about how we’re supporting UCL academics to work with external partners to solve challenges facing individuals, organisations and society: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/enterprise/innovation-challenge-events-and-funding
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9/25/2023
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