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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 2h

💊 The next Cambridge New Therapeutics Forum takes place on 22 Oct at the Babraham Institute!

Join researchers across Cambridge for short talks on 3D genome organisation, stem cell disease models & multi-omics tech.

📅 Don’t miss it — register now: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 6h

We’re thrilled to share that recordings from the 2025 Milner Therapeutics Symposium are available to view on our YouTube channel! 📽️ 👀

🔗 View the playlist at: www.youtube.com/play... #MilnerSymp25

Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 1d

🚀Applications are open for Founders SYNC 2.0, Cambridge’s co-founder matching accelerator! SYNC 2.0 brings together ambitious students, PhDs, researchers and recent alumni to form co-founding teams and launch startups.

📅 Closing date: 31 October
founders.cam.ac.uk/s...

Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 2d

Not long left to register!

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre @crukcamcentre.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 Abstract submission deadline: 19 Oct!
Showcase your research at the Cambridge Lung Cancer Symposium 2025 🫁

📅 21 Nov | 08:30–18:00
📍 CRUK Cambridge Institute

Register 👉 zurl.co/mSAtf
Submit 👉 zurl.co/YuC6I

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Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre @crukcamcentre.bsky.social · 2d

✨ Tomorrow is Allied Health Professions Day! Meet Vicki, Senior Paediatric Oncology Physiotherapist at @cuh.nhs.uk – one of the many incredible Allied Health Professionals making a real difference in patient care. 💙 #AHPsDay
📹 Watch the full video as she shares more about her role: zurl.co/RKnMJ

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 2d

Don't play Roulette with Vector Candidates: Rethinking Vector Design & Delivery Methods from the Lab Bench to Gene Therapy 🧬

Join @Translation_Mcr & @CambridgeATS for this G2T webinar with guest speaker Alan Griffith, @VectorBuilder!

🗓️ 15 Oct, online

www.tickettailor.com...

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 2d

👀 Looks like a fantastic meeting courtesy of @keystonesymposia.bsky.social, @kjarmache.bsky.social and former Symposium speaker and Milner friend @ckadoch.bsky.social! 🧪👇

Karim-Jean Armache @kjarmache.bsky.social · 28d

On behalf of @ckadoch.bsky.social and myself, we are pleased to present our upcoming @KeystoneSymposia, #KSEpigenetics26 Epigenetics and Gene Regulation in Health and Disease, March 2-5, in Geneva, Switzerland. keysym.us/KSEpigenetic...

Epigenetics and Gene Regulation in Health and Disease: Linking Basic Mechanisms with Therapeutic Opportunities | Keystone Symposia

Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Epigenetics and Gene Regulation in Health and Disease: Linking Basic Mechanisms with Therapeutic Opportunities, March 2026, in Geneva, with field leaders!

keysym.us

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 5d

FGSL Webinar: Overexpression of LIGHT on cancer cells facilitates T-cell cross-priming 🔬

Join the Functional Genomics Screening Lab as they welcome Dr Lorena Boquete Vilariño for this special webinar.

🗓️ 15 October
⏰ 11am
📍 Online

🔗 Register now at cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/me...

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 5d

The call for the second Cohort of the Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme is open! 🧠

This is a bold opportunity for innovators and original thinkers who aspire to revolutionise neurotechnology.

⏳ 13 October, 4pm.
🔗 connecthealthtech.mn...
🔗 cambridgeneuroworks....

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 5d

We were saddened to learn of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon. The @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social is where the concept for the Milner was formed and where we were housed until 2019.

Read a quote from our Director Sir Tony Kouzarides at: www.linkedin.com/posts/milner...

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 6d

This week, Nicola McCarthy, Head of Research & Alison Schuldt, Head of Partnerships, visited the research centre of long-time Consortium partner Shionogi! A privilege to meet with their distinguished scientists.

Read more about our pharma Consortium at: milner.cam.ac.uk/con...

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 7d

Did you attend BioCentury Inc.’s Grand Rounds Europe conference in Cambridge last month? ✨

Read our takeaways from the event at the link below, and feel free to add your own in the comments 👇

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Milner Institute joins BioCentury’s Grand Rounds Europe conference - The Milner Therapeutics Institute

Share via: Facebook X/Twitter LinkedIn

www.milner.cam.ac.uk

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 8d

Testa Challenge: Verify your technical or digital innovation 🚀

Organised by @TestaCenter – a non-profit company owned by @Cytiva, this challenge is for companies in the technology/digital/data/IT sector to test and verify their technology.

testachallenge.com

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 9d

🚀 Bringing discoveries to life through partnerships and enterprise: How to engage with the Milner Therapeutics Institute. An event held in collaboration with @CambNetwork.

🗓️ 3 November, 4:45-6:45pm 
📍 West Hub

🔗 www.cambridgenetwork...

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 12d

Did you that the Founders Growth Community offers free workshops and masterclasses, designed specifically for founders and CEOs navigating the scale-up, commercialisation, or growth stages of their ventures? 🚀

Check out the LinkedIn page here: www.linkedin.com/com...

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 13d

Testa Challenge: Verify your technical or digital innovation 🚀

Organised by Testa Center – a non-profit company owned by @cytiva.bsky.social, this challenge is for companies in the technology/digital/data/IT sector to test and verify their technology.

testachallenge.com

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 14d

Have you explored our refreshed website? 👀 Earlier this year, we restructured the Milner website around our three strategic focus areas:

🧬 RESEARCH
🤝 PARTNERSHIPS
🚀 ENTERPRISE

Visit our new website here: www.milner.cam.ac.uk

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 15d

How to Approach US Investors & Raise Funds 🚀

Join FGC and Paul Sekhri, President & CEO of vTv Therapeutics, for insights on navigating the US investment landscape & positioning your company to raise capital.

📅 20 Nov
📍Cambridge
🔗 lnkd.in/euZUuCuR

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 16d

🚀 Applications are open for the Bio-spark Entrepreneurial Programme!

Are you an early career researcher hoping to consider options outside the academic world? Are you looking for advice, experience or mentorship?

🗓️ Apply by 13 Oct
🔗 www.gravity.cam.ac.u...

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations to Milner affiliate Abselion for winning The Award for Collaboration at the Cambridge Indy Business Awards! 🏅

Also to CardiaTec, who were highly commended in the category of Small Business of the Year! 👏

🔗 www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/business/win...

Photo by Keith Heppell.

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 19d

The call for the second Cohort of the Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme is now open! 🧠

This is a bold opportunity for innovators and original thinkers who aspire to revolutionise neurotechnology.

⏳ October 1
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Transforming brain health - Cambridge NeuroWorks

Building a future where neurological disorders no longer limit human potential. We bring diverse minds together to fearlessly collaborate and to fund breakthrou…

cambridgeneuroworks.org

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 20d

Be in the room where ideas begin!

@camrare.bsky.social #RAREsummit25, 3 patient voices will pitch research ideas shaped by their communities & lived-experience priorities in the Rare Disease Research Network Showcase.

Tickets: www.camraredisease.o...

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 20d

Join @aiclubbiomed.bsky.social for talks on Quantum Computing in Biomedicine!

🗓️ 2 October
⏰ 5:15pm
📍Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre

Speakers: Kate Marshall, IBM Quantum & University of Oxford: “An Introduction to Quantum Computing and Applications in Biosciences”

www.milner.cam.ac.uk...

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 21d

📣 Milner Seminars: Focus on spatial biology

Please join us tomorrow for the next instalment of our seminar series, with talks from Esther Baena (Owkin Science) and Mats Nilsson (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social and @sangerinstitute.bsky.social)

Find out more and register: ow.ly/YgA450Wu1UW

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 22d

🚀 Join the future of neurotechnology innovation! Cambridge NeuroWorks is recruiting for two key roles at Babraham Research Campus:

💡 Commercialisation & Impact Builder
💡 Accelerator Cohort Administrator

Deadline: 26 Sept.

Apply here: www.babraham.com/vac...

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