Innovation Digest 18.5.23
Glasgow City of Science and Innovation
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We're celebrating and supporting the strengths of the Glasgow City Region's research and business communities, which have helped forge our reputation as a city region at the forefront of technology, innovation and collaboration.
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Game changing Glasgow!
In a survey asking recent graduates where they moved to for work after university, Glasgow placed as the joint top ranked UK city for student retention, keeping 51% of its graduates.
Innovator spotlight: Prof. Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow
Prof. Cronin is the Regius Professor of Chemistry at University of Glasgow. He leads the Cronin Group, whose research contributes to various applications such as developing materials for solar fuel devices to producing potential drug and drug delivery candidates.
A multi-award winner, Cronin has published over 450 papers, and given 560 lectures. He has one of the largest multidisciplinary chemistry-based research teams in the world, having raised over $35M in grants. Lee is also CEO of Chemify, which aims to digitise chemical code to enable drug discovery, chemical synthesis and materials discovery.
Hydrogen Innovation Centre to boost green energy development
The centre, based at University of Glasgow, will provide a platform for academic research groups and commercial enterprises from across Scotland to advance hydrogen technologies
Entrepreneurial teams win funding from Strathclyde Inspire
Three teams have won a share of ￡17,500 entrepreneurial award funding at the biannual Inspire100 event organised by Strathclyde Inspire - the university's flagship entrepreneurship programme for students, staff and alumni.
Glasgow HealthTech firm ‘world’s first’ use of ChatGPT-based tech for pharmaceutical marketing
Talking Medicines has developed Drug-GPT?, a groundbreaking solution that has the potential to revolutionise the way healthcare advertising agencies analyse insights on complex patient & social data. By leveraging publicly accessible data such as forums, Drug-GPT? offers access to real-world insights.
Behind the scenes...
Last week, we invited 100+ diverse innovation actors & business leaders to a series of roundtable discussions to help shape the Glasgow City Region’s forthcoming innovation action plan – key takeaways and next steps to follow…
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The Glasgow City of Science and Innovation team