Health and Life Sciences Focus Nurturing an Authentic Leader’s Mindset Cultivating a Confident Negotiator WE ACE is a training and coaching programme dedicated to women entrepreneurs in health and life sciences, with a focus on leadership and negotiation. The History of WE ACE In 2018 Innovation Forum Oxford (IFO) created ACE (Awareness, Connectivity, Exchange) Saturdays–aaaa

Update: This piece was originally published in 2020. One year on (Apr 2021) the UCL-Ventura device is now in use across UK hospitals and the designs have been distributed to over 100 countries internationally. A recent UK aid shipment to India included 100 UCL-Ventura devices. An overdue ‘insider’ story to tell: our own Innovation Forumaaa

  Meet the Oxford mentors for the 2018-19 edition of IMAGINE IF! What makes the IMAGINE IF! idea competition different is mentorship: a bespoke flexible process, organised and facilitated by Innovation Forum Oxford and delivered by a diverse panel of experts in coordination with the mentees.  This tailored mentorship scheme plays a crucial role in propelling the early-stageaaa

Last June, Innovation Forum partnered with JnJ Innovation to organise the “She started it“ event at Oxford. The evening started with screening of a film, co-directed by journalists Nora Poggi and Insiyah Saeed, that features five women founders in the tech sector. It showed the true and raw reality of being an entrepreneur and theaaa

This year’s 4th Global Innovation Forum Leaders Conference will bring together innovators, investors and policymakers and industry leaders from across the world to the Saïd Business School, Oxford. The conference will be held on the 4th-5th of December 2017 and will feature renowned speakers from academia and entrepreneurship as well as celebrating the biotech industry inaaa

Brexit has watermarked Britain’s future and has thrown not only the country but the whole scientific community into an enigma with a desperate need to stabilize its critical condition.  This may affect Britain tapping into shared science and funding as well as discouraging scientific talents globally.  What becomes of access to EU funding for manyaaa

Applications are now open for the Innovation Forum Leaders Conference 2017 taking place on 4th to 5th December in Oxford, UK.   This year we have an apply to attend process in order to ensure a high caliber, selective audience and quality partnering opportunities across a good mix of industry, startups, academia and policy makers.aaa

Do you have a great idea for a science-based start up? Join the global network of innovators across 16 branches world wide, and become a scientist-entrepreneur via our IMAGINE IF! accelerator! Innovation Forum invites you to participate in the 4th edition of the first truly global competition and accelerator program for science-based ventures.  IMAGINE IF! accelerator’s mission isaaa

LAB282 is a new funding partnership in Oxford, which has just awarded its first grants. We interviewed Dr Thomas Hanke, Expert in Residence at LAB282 and Head of Academic Partnerships at Evotec. Read on to find out what is so unique about LAB282, what it can offer and, most importantly, how to get them toaaa

Find out what it means to be a health and life-sciences entrepreneur! On 30th November 2016 Innovation Forum Oxford closed the first round of four lectures in the series in Health and Life-Sciences Entrepreneurship, organised in collaboration with the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and University of Oxford’s Medical Sciences Division. Here is the summary ofaaa