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Catchup – Salon – Being Innovation Minded
April 30 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
A weekly webinar to discuss careers and research topics. These sessions combine livestreams, guest speakers, and group online chat to exchange ideas, challenge, influence, inspire, and educate. In this session, we hear from Dr Sam Moxon and Professor Richard Unwin, discussing embedding Innovation into Research and how this can lead to new companies, spin-out and new horizons.
What if your research could do more than advance knowledge—what if it could change lives in tangible, practical ways? (Something I know we all hope for) Being innovation-minded means seeing beyond the lab, beyong the clinic or intervention and recognising the potential to turn discoveries into products, services, or companies that address real-world challenges. But how do you make the leap from research to entrepreneurship? How do you identify opportunities, navigate the risks, and create impact at scale? Today, we’ll explore what it means to think like an innovator in dementia research, unlocking the power of your work to transform care, treatment, and lives.
Speakers
Dr Sam Moxon is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. His expertise falls on the interface between biology and engineering. His PhD focussed on regenerative medicine and he now works on trying to develop 3D bioprinting techniques with human stem cells, so that we better understand and treat degenerative diseases. This work led him to Innovation and now he has an additional role as CEO of Aegis FibreTech.
Professor Richard Unwin run an independent research group at the The University of Manchester applying quantitative mass spectrometry (MS) methods to protein analysis, but in a global and targeted manner. His main interests are in chronic diseases of older age, primarily neurodegeneration but also cardiovascular disease, and age-related macular degeneration. This work also led him to being Co-Founder of Complement Therapeutics.
Programme
The format of the event is a 30 minute livestream where the speakers will each present their thoughts on this topic for 10 minutes each, the host will then ask questions and the livestream will end. The speakers will then join the online chat and interact with the audience, answering questions and giving those who attended a chance to share their thoughts on the topic.
