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

🚀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 · 1d

Not long left to register!

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre @crukcamcentre.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 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 · 1d

✨ 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 · 1d

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 · 1d

👀 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!

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Milner Therapeutics Institute 🧪 @milnerinst.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

🚀 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 · 11d

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 · 12d

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 · 13d

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 · 14d

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 · 15d

🚀 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 · 18d

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 · 18d

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 · 19d

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 · 19d

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 · 20d

📣 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 · 21d

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

We are delighted to announce that Daiichi Sankyo has joined the Milner Therapeutics Consortium!

Through the Consortium, Daiichi Sankyo will be able to establish research collaborations of mutual benefit with academics across Cambridge.

Read more at: www.milner.cam.ac.uk/daiichi-sank...

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

Founders Growth Community: 1:1 meetings with pharma companies

🗓️ 25 September
⏰ 2–4pm
📍The Glasshouse, Cambridge

This month’s networking session has reached capacity, but you still have until 8 September to request 1:1 meetings with pharma companies!

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