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SUMMARY:Pioneer Presents: Healthy Ageing Launch Event
DESCRIPTION:Every person – in every country in the world – should have the opportunity to live a long and healthy life. \nJoin us for this exciting Pioneer Presents event to hear from experts carrying out cutting-edge research and innovation into healthy ageing\, creating the environments and opportunities that enable people to be and do what they value throughout their lives.  \n  \nLiving well with age-related diseases \nAgeing is a driving factor of various age-related diseases\, including neurodegenerative diseases\, cardiovascular diseases\, cancer\, immune system disorders\, and musculoskeletal disorders. Efforts to find drugs that improve the health span by targeting the pathogenesis of ageing have now become a hot topic in this field. \nThe role of nutrition in healthy ageing \nEating a nutrient-rich diet is the key to maintaining a high quality of life and staying healthy for years to come. By understanding the importance of nutrition\, it is possible to boost immunity\, guard against chronic diseases\, and make sure the body gets what it needs to age in a healthy manner. \nAgenda \n10:00 Coffee and Registration\n10:30 Welcome and introduction to Pioneer Group Jeroen Houtzager\, Pioneer\n10:45 Adding Life to Years: The Healthy Ageing Challenge George MacGinnis\, Challenge Director\, Healthy Ageing\, UK Research and Innovation\nSession One: Healthy ageing research\n11:15 Nutrient-sensing pathways in cognitive aging Professor Gary Frost\, Imperial College London\n11:35 A healthy gut – the key to maintaining a healthy immune system with age Dr Niharika Duggal\, University of Birmingham\n11:55 Increasing health span by targeting fundamental ageing mechanisms Professor Richard Faragher\, University of Brighton\n12.15 Lunch and Networking\nSession two: Scaling up and spinning out innovations for healthy ageing\n13:00 The role of collaboration in developing cell and gene therapies for healthy ageing\nLee Dunham\, Director of Business Development\, Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult\n13:20 A collaborative framework for drug discovery in healthy ageing Dr Graeme Wilkinson\, Head of Virtual R&D and Strategy Leader – Ageing\, Medicines Discovery Catapult\n13:40 Developing life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases Harshit Shah\, Senior Director\, Jazz Pharma\n14:00 Regenerative therapies for age related hearing loss Dr Terri Gaskell\, our Chief Technology Officer. Rinri Therapeutics\n14:20 Macrophages and glycoimmunology in healthy ageing Dr Masih Alam\, Director\, ImmunDNZ\n14:40 Immuno-oncology\, autoimmune disease and infectious disease Martin Gouldstone\, CEO\, OncImmune\n15:00 Networking\n15:00 Optional Tour of Kent Science Park Ventures Building; Perfect for small to medium start-ups\, this newly refurbished building contains CL2 labs and office space.\n16:00 Close \n  \nVenue: The Hub – Kent Science Park\nBroadoak Road\nSittingbourne\nME9 8AG\nLocation: what3words location/// places.stamp.played \nClosest train station: Sittingbourne\nFree shuttle bus operates to and from Sittingbourne train station and Kent Science Park. Bus stop location: After exiting the station\, cross the road and pass to the left of the Travelodge. Pick up the white Chalkwell minibus outside the Premier Express shop.\nPlease email us with your train arrival & departure times so we can make sure we have the appropriate number of additional services running for this event. \nDirect trains to Sittingbourne every 30 mins from each of these London hubs:\nLondon Stratford International – 51 minutes journey time\nLondon St Pancras International – 58 minutes journey time\nLondon Victoria – 61 minutes journey time \nBy car: \n\nComing from London on the M2 take J5 then the first exit (A249).\nExit onto the slip road to Sittingbourne.\nAt the roundabout\, take the fourth exit onto Key Street / London Road (A2)\nContinue along the A2. Follow one-way system left onto St Michaels Road (A2).\nAt the traffic lights\, turn right onto Bell Road.\nAt the mini roundabout\, turn left onto Woodstock Road (B2163).\nContinue onto Ruins Barn Road and then turn left onto Broadoak Road towards KSP.\n\nTurn into KSP from Broadoak Road. You’ll be greeted at the gatehouse\, and signs will direct you to car parking close to The Hub where the event is taking place. \n— \nAt Pioneer Group\, we believe in the power of innovation and collaboration\, to tackle our human and planetary health challenges. \nPioneer Presents is our inspiring new event series exploring the challenges that we\, as a life-sciences community\, strive to solve.
URL:https://thepioneergroup.com/event/pioneer-presents-healthy-ageing-launch-event/
LOCATION:Kent Science Park\, Kent Science Park\, Broad Oak Road\, Sittingbourne\, Kent\, ME9 8AG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Pioneer Presents: Securing funding for bio-based product development and commercialisation
DESCRIPTION:Securing funding for bio-based product development and commercialisation \n12.00 pm – 13.30 pm\, Monday 29th April 2024 \nJoin us online\, with our partner PNO Consultants\, to gain a better understanding of how to write a successful funding bid. \nAs a company that submits over 120 Innovate UK applications per year\, in this workshop PNO Consultants will share our approach to grant writing\, providing hints and tips on how to prepare a compelling bid in order to increase your chances of success. \nWhether you are currently considering a grant submission or simply exploring the types of grants that could be right for your business\, by attending this event\, you will gain a better understanding of how to write a successful bid with a unique insight into what the assessors of applications are looking for. \nThis workshop will also provide you with an overview of the most interesting schemes currently available for development of bio-based and biodegradable materials. \nAgenda\n12-12.30pm Introduction and background \n• Welcome and overview of PNO Consultants Ltd \n• Introduction to the UK’s grant funding landscape \n• What can grant funding support be used for? \n12.30-1.30pm What makes a successful application \n• Tips & tricks \n• Q&A \nPost-webinar: One-to-one consultations (optional) \nContact: claire.flanagan@pnoconsultants.com to arrange your individual session \nAbout PNO\nPNO UK has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients\, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone\, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience\, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned\, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes. \nDr Claire Flanagan\, Senior Innovation Consultant \nClaire started her career as a synthetic chemist for a CRO carrying out custom synthesis projects on behalf of pharma clients. She then returned to academia to complete a PhD in directed evolution of biocatalysts before working initially as a researcher then as a project manager. This included managing the IBCarb network – a Phase 1 BBSRC Network in Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy (NIBB) and winning funding for and managing CarboMet\, a Horizon 2020 Coordination & Support Action. \nClaire joined PNO in 2019 and works closely with clients to develop innovative R&D project proposals for submission to various UK national (Innovate UK\, DSIT\, DESNZ\, DASA\, NIHR) and European funding (Eurostars\, Horizon Europe) competitions. She has a demonstrable track record of successfully securing grant funding on behalf of clients across the biotech\, chemical\, pharma\, agritech and bio-energy sectors and is particularly interested in technologies and innovations that are aimed at improving sustainability and will contribute to the growing circular and biobased economies to achieve the UK’s Net Zero ambitions. \nContact details: \nDr Claire Flanagan\, Senior Innovation Consultant \nClaire.Flanagan@pnoconsultants.com \nwww.linkedin.com/in/dr-claire-doherty-flanagan
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SUMMARY:Pioneer Presents: Planetary Health - Green Carbon for the UK Chemicals Sector
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this exciting Pioneer Presents live event to hear from experts across the UK Chemicals sector and their endeavours to become more sustainable\, through the development and deployment of renewable carbon feedstocks. \nWe live in a world driven by linear economies\, where we take resources\, make things\, consume them\, and throw them away. This way of living uses finite raw materials and produces vast waste. In contrast\, in a circular carbon economy\, things made from carbon\, such as chemicals and plastics\, are created and consumed in a way that minimises our use of virgin-fossil resources\, cuts waste and reduces carbon emissions. We must accelerate our transition to a truly circular carbon economy. \nThe chemicals and plastics sector are responsible for nearly 10% of global GHG emissions\, with the use of fossil carbon from below ground\, being the main cause of anthropogenic climate change. Reductions in the inflow of further fossil carbon from the ground into our system must be reduced as quickly as possible and by high volumes. While the UK rightly emphasises reuse and avoidance\, the chemical and material industries are essentially only possible with carbon-based feedstocks – and unlike the energy sector\, the chemicals sector cannot be “decarbonised”. Instead\, this industry must be de-fossilised. \n \n\nCircular Carbon Economy \n  \nAgenda\n09:00 Coffee and Registration\n09:30 Welcome and introduction to Pioneer Group Toby Reid\, Pioneer Group\n09:45 Alternative feedstocks for the UK chemicals industry Adrian Higson\, NNFCC\n10:15 Polymers in liquid formulations: Opportunities for a sustainable future Professor Anju Massey-Brooker\, Royal Society of Chemistry\n10:35 Green innovation in carbon technologies Ameilia Barton\, Appleyard Lees LLP\n10:50 Break\nSession One: Chemical Recycling\n11:10 Polymer recycling technology for the textiles industry Professor Du\, University of Huddersfield\n11:30 Producing renewable base chemicals while preventing the incineration of plastic waste Dr Abi Mountain\, Head of Product & Partnerships\, Itero Technologies\n11:50 Engineering Biology for reducing plastic pollution Professor Pickford\, University of Portsmouth\n12:10 Lunch and Networking\nSession Two: Carbon Capture and Utilisation\n13.00 Recycling carbon with biomanufacturing Dr Anne Delille\, PhD\, Government Grants Finance Manager\, LanzaTech\n13.20 Flue2Chem Project David Bott\, SCI\n13.40 CCU in the Northeast Process Cluster – A Hub for Industrial Symbiosis Ryan Siddall\, Head of Technical\, NEPIC\n14.00 Industrial gases for chemicals Michael Burnett\, Innovate UK Business Connect\n14:20 Break\nSession Three: Biomass for Biochemicals and Bioenergy\n15:00 A hierarchy for biomass utilisation Anna Zhenova\, Green Rose Chemistry\n15:30 Biorefineries as a hub for a de-fossilized chemical industry Chris Holt\, Ensus\n15:50 Producing Carbon-Neutral\, Renewable Chemicals From UK-Sourced Biomass Andy West\, Sonichem\n16:10 Net zero acrylics Mark Reynolds\, Mitsubishi Chemicals\n16:30 Scaling-up to create biobased value chains Dr Mark Corbett\, Director\, The Biorenewables Development Centre\n16:50 Close \n— \nVenue: Wilton Centre\nLocation: what3words: warm.royal.direct \nLunch & refreshments will be provided. \n  \nAt Pioneer Group\, we believe in the power of innovation and collaboration\, to tackle our human and planetary health challenges. \nPioneer Presents is our inspiring new event series exploring the challenges that we\, as a life-sciences community\, strive to solve.
URL:https://thepioneergroup.com/event/pioneer-presents-planetary-health-renewable-carbon-for-the-uk-chemicals-sector/
LOCATION:Wilton Centre\, Wilton Centre\, Redcar\, TS10 4RF\, United Kingdom
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