Winners of the Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2024 revealed

Nine of the most exceptional and innovative life sciences and medtech companies and industry collaborations from across the Midlands have been recognised as winners of the Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2024. Held at the prestigious Athena in Leicester on 9 May, the Business Awards 2024 were Medilink Midlands’ most spectacular...

Medilink Midlands launches its Strategic Innovation Gateway series (SIG)

The first Strategic Innovation Gateway (SIG) got underway with a hugely successful, extremely well-attended event held on the 1st May 2024 at Charnwood Campus, focused on Rehabilitation Technologies. CEO of Medilink Midlands, Melanie Davidson, welcomed everyone to the event and introduced the speakers from Loughborough University, University of Nottingham and Nottingham...

Advanced Precision Technologies achieves ISO accreditations

An engineering company in Chatteris is celebrating after achieving not one, but two new ISO accreditations. Advanced Precision Technologies, which manufactures complex components for the motorsport and medical sectors using 5-axis CNC machining, has been awarded ISO 9001 Quality Management System and ISO 14001 Environmental Management System accreditations. The accreditations...

Round table report: What’s next for AI in healthtech

Recently Medilink Midlands CEO Melanie Davidson took place in a round table hosted by The Business Desk. The round table, sponsored by Tank, a digital marketing agency, saw clinicians, academics, healthtech and data security experts discuss the potential benefits of implementing new technologies, focusing specifically on the role of AI,...

Discovering more about… the Ambitious Essex Innovation Accelerator

Aimed at early stage start ups within the Essex area, the Ambitious Essex Innovation Accelerator has been created to encourage and engage with new entrepreneurs and fledgling businesses looking to commercialise their innovations. Helping to establish the project is clinician, entrepreneur and healthcare provider, Dr Poobashni Govender who, having founded...

Health Minister attends life sciences event at Charnwood Campus

A Government Health Minister joined the first life sciences event of Leicestershire Innovation Festival 2024. Andrew Stephenson CBE MP visited Charnwood Campus to join more than 100 delegates considering innovation as a potential solution to health disparities and inequalities. Attendees included senior representatives from the NHS, as well as clinicians,...

Pioneer Group and CPI collaborate on ‘Golden Ticket’ programme for planetary health innovations

Pioneer Group, a company combining laboratory development and operation with venture building, has teamed up with CPI, the independent deep tech innovation organisation, to launch a Golden Ticket programme for innovations in planetary health. The 2024 Golden Ticket Programme is open to hydrogen and climate technology companies that are innovating...

From Quishing to Cookies: How to Understand and Defend Against Advanced Social Engineering Attacks

Social engineering attacks, also known as ‘human hacking’, are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with cybercriminals finding new in-roads to harvest sensitive data. Techniques such as phishing and spear phishing are responsible for the majority of social engineering cyber-attacks. They are designed to manipulate employees to share personal data or credentials, which...