Imperial Enterprise

😍It's coming up to the most exciting time of the year... #LondonDemoDay returns: https://hubs.ly/Q02L4dQK0 📆 Wednesday 18 September 🕓 16.00-20.30 BST Hosted by The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), this year's event will see five of our top startups and spinouts from LSE, UCL, King's College London and here at Imperial College London seeking to raise between £100,000 and £1.5m to invest in their companies. Kudos once again to the teams at LSE Generate, King's Entrepreneurship Institute UCL Innovation & Enterprise and our own Imperial Enterprise Lab for bringing this all to life. See you there! #StudentEntrepreneurship #StudentFounders #StudentStartups #UniversityStartups #UniversitySpinouts

📢 Are you on the hunt for job that fosters entrepreneurship and supports startups? Look no further: https://hubs.ly/Q02Lj4Q_0 Imperial Enterprise Lab's WE Innovate programme is entering a new and exciting phase, and is looking for an enthusiastic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager. This role offers a unique chance to lead the delivery of impactful programmes, workshops, and events that support the entrepreneurial journey of our talented students, recent alumni, and postdocs. You’ll play a crucial role in shaping the future of women-led startups and fostering a vibrant community of #InventedAtImperial innovators. If you have a strong background in innovation, learning design, and project management, and are eager to make a difference in a world-class institution, we’d love to hear from you! 🚀 Join us and help drive the future of innovation!

💪 We are a community of game-changers and impact makers. As A-level results arrive, we eagerly anticipate the achievements of the incoming students who will join us this autumn and shape the future. Each year, our Imperial College London community continues to make a mark on the Forbes #30Under30 lists and 2024 was no exception. We extend our heartfelt congratulations to the #OurImperial alumni featured this year, including founders of some of our most innovative startups: 💦 Beren Kayali – Co-Founder of Deploy™ (Manufacturing & Industry) 💊 Lewis Hornby – Founder and CEO at Jelly Drops (Social Impact) ⚰️ Aura Murillo Pérez – Co-Founder of Resting Reef (Social Impact) 🌿 Carlo Fedeli and Thibaut Monfort Micheo – Co-Founders of FlexSea (Manufacturing & Industry) Discover more inspiring alumni who made the list here: https://hubs.ly/Q02Lf7vC0 #Innovation #StudentStartups #StudentEntrepreneurship #Alevels #SixthForm #ALevelResultsDay #ALevels2024

💻 AI research donation from AMD 1️⃣0️⃣1️⃣... https://hubs.ly/Q02KWk120 Here at Imperial College London we've been at the forefront of technology (re-)invention for generations, and with new advances in AI, we're at the coal face of the research underpinning both the hardware and software that will revolutionise the world. This latest donation is a recognition of our world-leading status here, in particular the expertise of Professor George Constantinides and Dr Aaron Zhao. “Because we can develop the processor architecture around the algorithm, we get really high performance.” #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #ChatGPT #AIHardware (In future, this post might be written by AI. For now, it's still us humans doing the important work!)

When AI meets chemistry, the possibilities are endless... https://hubs.ly/Q02KMXQZ0 Hear from our aichemy's co-Directors, Professor Kim Jelfs, from Imperial College London, and Professor Andrew Cooper, from University of Liverpool, along with other members of the Hub's leadership. 📆Thursday 5 September 🕚11:00-12:30 The webinar will help you: - Gain insights into AIchemy's vision and objectives - Discover our research priorities - Hear about the Hub’s activities and events - Find out about funding opportunities You will also have the opportunity to contribute your suggestions on various aspects of the Hub, helping shape the future programme of activities. Of particular interest to industry partners in the #Chemical and #Manufacturing sectors.

🧠💻Big news for tiny implants: https://hubs.ly/Q02KMPyg0 “The range of conditions we can currently treat with neural or bioelectronic implants is quite limited.” - Professor Timothy Constandinou, Professor of Bioelectronics at Imperial College London and co-founder of MintNeuro Over a billion people worldwide are affected by neurological conditions like stroke, epilepsy, #Parkinson’s and #MotorNeuroneDisease. #NeuralImplants offer a promising route towards developing new treatments and therapies for conditions like these. Established bioelectronic interventions like cochlear implants have already helped over 1 million people, and this latest partnership with Amber Therapeutics, funded through an Innovate UK Smart Grant, aims to co-develop a 'neural chiplet', which is a tasty proposition!

Celebrating our previous achievements 🔙 Last week we rounded out the academic year, meaning it's time to look at all the lovely data and fantastic achievements for the year. While we compile our 2023-24 data, check out what we managed in 2022-23👇 ✍️ 921 Commercial and consultancy deals signed (that's three every day!) 📄 101 patents filed and 128 patents issued (that's one every three days) 🤝 £267m raised from investors by #OurImperial startups and spinouts - phenomenal numbers! For more of this and insights into how our ecosystem continues to support our innovators at Imperial College London, check out our annual metrics: https://hubs.ly/Q02KqTZD0 Check out more in-depth features on Research Impact Management Office and Imperial College Advanced Hackspace as well as other great numbers from Imperial Consultants (ICON), Imperial Enterprise Lab, Imperial White City Incubator and our Imperial Enterprise community.

💉Making MusiCC with Human Challenge Trials During the COVID-19 pandemic, Human Challenge Trials became a vital way of understanding the virus and how to vaccinate against it. Based on centuries-old methodology, the new advances helped us contain the disease at a pace never-before experienced. Building on that, our Research Impact Management Office are about to embark on supporting leading researchers from Imperial College London and beyond on a new project, MusiCC, funded through the European Union's Horizon Europe Programme and CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations), and you can read more about it in this feature in The Times from earlier this year: https://hubs.ly/Q02KbkDP0 Picture credit: Ernesto Mastrascusa/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

💸Giving back when going forwards: https://hubs.ly/Q02Kb5F70 The Imperial College London innovation ecosystem is full of connections across our community. Last year, we launched the Imperial Entrepreneurs' Pledge to enable our startup founders to contribute their support in a range of ways, from funding for Imperial Enterprise Lab or Imperial College Advanced Hackspace, through to helping someone come to Imperial who might otherwise not be able to. And they do so through pledging a contribution after they reach a certain stage in their company's progress. Look out for stories from our first pledgers over the coming weeks, and contact the team directly for more information about the scheme and how you can get involved.

🔬🦠Commercialising cell membranes and proteins tests with Molecular Dimensions: https://hubs.ly/Q02JWwzm0 Imperial College London and Molecular Dimensions are looking to commercialise a high-throughput test to advance our understanding of integral membrane proteins, which are vital targets for 60% of prescribed drugs. Developed by Professor Bernadette Byrne and her team in the Department of Life Sciences, the new technique uses a screen to identify lipids that restore the stability and function of these proteins. This has the potential for revolutionising biological research and leading to development of new life-improving medicines in the cases of hypertension, depression, or infectious diseases, where medicines work by altering or exploiting how integral membrane proteins function.