The special mini-series of Cancer Research Matters takes a deep dive into all things science entrepreneurship.

Right, so initial contact has been made… time to take those first steps in an entrepreneurial adventure. However, it’s clear that the many skills you have gathered as an academic – and they are considerable – you’ll need a few more to help you be successful in translating your research. So, what are they? What’s the best way to sharpen up? And how – exactly – can they help? Its all in this episode… plus: Do you know your design rights from your copyright? Me either... luckily we have a patent attorney to give us a vital primer on intellectual property protection.

Appearing in this episode:

Alessia Erico

Associate Director, Search and Evaluation, and Entrepreneurial Programmes Lead at Cancer Research Horizons

Alessia leads a team responsible for sourcing new opportunities arising from Cancer Research UK-funded science, in the UK and internationally, that have the potential of translating to the clinic.

Faith Howard

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sheffield

Co-Founder at NANOncolytics

Faith is cofounder of NANOncolytics, a company developing nanoparticle technology to provide a less invasive strategy for treating inaccessible and aggressive tumours.

Matt de Vries

PhD student at the Institute of Cancer Research and Imperial College London,

co-founder of Sentinal 4D

Matt's work focuses on biomedical applications of 3D computer vision. In 2022, Matt was shortlisted for the Cancer Research Horizons Early Career Entrepreneur of the Year award for his work on co-founding Sentinal 4D.

Camille Terfve

Partner, Patent Attorney at Mewburn Ellis

Camille has expertise in bioinformatics/computational biology, digital health, AI in the life sciences, and advanced bioprocessing.

Useful links:

Entrepreneurship training from Cancer Research Horizons

Venture Builder Incubator

Cancer Tech Accelerator

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The special mini-series of Cancer Research Matters takes a deep dive into all things science entrepreneurship.

This first episode asks: why should entrepreneurship and translation interest researchers from an academic background? Isn’t this a tricky thing to navigate? What support is available? What kinds of research can be translated and what should researchers do if they think their work could lead to an intervention. It’s all in here – so get stuck in.

Appearing in this episode:

Simon Boulton

Principal Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute

Co-founder & VP Science Strategy, Artios Pharma Ltd

Chief Translation Advisor, Cancer Research UK

Simon’s lab has discovered new DNA repair genes and provided novel insights into cancer. In 2016, Simon helped to establish Artios Pharma Ltd where he functions as Vice President of Science Strategy alongside his academic roles at the Francis Crick Institute and Cancer Research UK. Artios are developing new treatments that target DNA repair pathway vulnerabilities to selectively kill cancer cells. Simon is also Chief Translation Advisor at Cancer Research UK, with the remit to guide translation and commercialisation of novel cancer therapeutics.

Tony Hickson

Chief business officer, Cancer Research UK and Cancer Research Horizons

Tony leads the Commercial Partnerships team responsible for the commercialisation of IP from Cancer Research UK-funded projects, new start-up creation, licences and corporate alliances.

Faith Howard

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sheffield

Co-Founder at NANOncolytics

Faith’s research interests are focused on delivery of therapeutics to disseminated tumours. This includes nanoenabled formulations and the development of appropriate models for studying immunotherapies. She is cofounder of NANOncolytics, a company developing nanoparticle technology to provide a less invasive strategy for treating inaccessible and aggressive tumours.

Tommy Rennison

Regional Translation Lead, Cancer Research Horizons

Tommy is responsible for sourcing and evaluating potential new projects for Cancer Research Horizons.

Phil Berry

Translation Executive at Cancer Research Horizons

Phil is responsible for sourcing and evaluating potential new projects for Cancer Research Horizons.

Useful links

Cancer Research Horizons

Cancer Research Horizons entrepreneurial training

The Venture Builder Incubator

ICURe Programme

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This episode features a round-up of the best of the first series of Cancer Research Matters.

It features some of the fantastic researchers that we have interviewed over the past year – including Professor Steve Jackson, Professor Ruth Plummer, Dr Simon Boulton, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Professor Karen Vousden, Professor Richard Gilbertson and Professor Charles Swanton.

In this episode I tease out four themes that emerged over this first series that give some interesting insights into how we work as scientists, research leaders and research translators.

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