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

Consultancy in Health and Life Sciences; a taster for the curious! Venue: Oxford University Careers Service (56 Banbury Rd, OX2 6PA)   Interested in how a consultancy approach can help innovators in Health and Life Sciences? Interested in how your skill set can be honed and channelled to tackle a consulting project? Interested in exploring new employability skills,aaa

Innovation in Child Health Hackathon Venue: Oxford University Careers Service (56 Banbury Rd, OX2 6PA) Innovation Forum Oxford acknowledges the need for creating awareness for paediatric innovation amongst our science entrepreneurs, academics, healthcare providers and all the stakeholders that can support. Our campaign is focussed on bringing new energy and ideas to the many unsolved challenges across paediatricaaa

The Oxford branch of the Innovation Forum recently supported the EIT Health Innovation Day organised by the Entrepreneurship Centre, Said Business School, Oxford. The event took place at the Oxford Foundry and aimed at defining and solving challenges in mental health following the “design thinking” process. The day brought together scientists, clinicians, MBA students, andaaa

Oxford has always led the way in education, research and innovation. Unsurprisingly, thousands of influential leaders have begun their journey here. The list of famous Oxonians includes 51 Nobel Prize winners, 27 British Prime Ministers and countless CEOs, all of whom have disrupted their field, changing the status quo. Our partners, TechTonic will be hostingaaa

The sell-out evening at the Oxford careers service on October 12th was an inspiring showcase of the exciting innovation occurring in the Oxford ecosystem, and showed-off some equally impressive entrepreneurs and technology. Martin Ducker, from Spherox Pharmaceuticals, pitched his cell assay to block infiltration of the highly aggressive glioblastoma brain tumour and triumphed in firstaaa

Written by: Dr Mira Kassouf IMAGINE IF! in Oxford Oxford continues to top the World University Rankings, a testament of the excellence and impact in academic and innovative pursuits. Innovation Forum Oxford (IFO) is embedded in this exquisite environment that keeps on giving; when you think the place is saturated with support for startups, thenaaa

Meet the Oxford team of Innovation Forum, a team of talented entrepreneurially minded scientists and clinicians from the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University. During the 2016/2017 academic year, they have delivered an impressive catalogue of initiatives to inspire and educate the next generation of science-entrepreneurs and to accelerate innovation by connecting academics withaaa

“Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs” IMAGINE IF! Idea Competition OXFORD PITCHING FINAL Are you interested in what 10 teams of Oxford science entrepreneurs have identified as problems and needs? And how they went about addressing them by applying their science and expertise? Join us on Thursday 12th October 2017 at 18:00, at the Centenary Room, Careers Serviceaaa

Academics more and more often think beyond publishing their discoveries in top journals and consider the commercial potential of their findings. This is particularly prominent at the University of Oxford, where last year, scientists span out 21 discoveries into companies, attracting ~£50 million in early-stage funding grants, investment and partnerships with pharma. This year, start-upaaa