MILNER: EVENTS CALENDAR

This event will aim to foster collaboration between industry and the oncology/clinical/research communities.  This Life Science Conference, brought to you by Cytiva, will showcase ongoing clinical and pre-clinical research in the field of oncology, including a strong focus around functional genomics and multi-omics research. The conference will provide an opportunity for local academic scientists to […]

Join us for a talk hosted by The Milner Therapeutics Institute and Storm Therapeutics. This talk will include time for Q&A and will be followed by refreshments and networking. Date and Time: Friday 29th September, 1.30pm to 2.30 pm. Speaker: Dr Andrew Guirguis, Dawson Lab,  Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia Topic: "The […]

Join us for a Milner Special Seminar hosted by Dr Namshik Han. The seminar will include time for Q&A and will be followed by refreshments and networking. Speaker: Jeong Hun Kim, Seoul National University Hospital and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Topic: “In vivo genome editing for vision” Please register at: milner-special-seminar-october-2023.eventbrite.co.uk […]

The AI Club is a new initiative to bring together the Biomedical AI and Machine Learning community in Cambridge, to discuss common themes and explore different topics and methodologies. Theme Whole Genome Sequencing analysis Topic TBC Speakers TBC Presentations start at 5:30pm, followed by networking and pizza at 6:30pm. No registration necessary – just show […]

Join us for the October event in our popular seminar series. October Theme Focus on disease models Programme and Speakers 4:00pm Matteo Martufi, GSK "iPSC derived myeloid cells as a platform for identification of novel targets for autoimmune & neuroimmune diseases" 4:30pm Emma Rawlins, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge “Human organoid models of lung […]

The AI Club brings together the Biomedical AI and Machine Learning community in Cambridge to discuss common themes and explore different topics and methodologies. Join us to discuss this month’s theme: Healthcare Intelligence First Speaker: Shruthi Bannur (Microsoft Research Cambridge) “Learning to Exploit Temporal Structure for Biomedical Vision-Language Processing” Second Speaker: Niranjani Prasad (Microsoft Research […]

Next Tuesday 14th November, the Milner Therapeutics Institute will welcome IE Cambridge to the JCBC for their Innovation and Entrepreneurship Expo! This drop-in event runs across 3 days and 3 locations and is a chance to talk to organisations that provide different support programmes and activities for those interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the […]

An afternoon event hosted by the Milner Therapeutics Institute, with visiting speakers from the Korean Research Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) and Seoul National University (SNU) together with selected University of Cambridge speakers. The event will focus on advances and opportunities around cell and gene therapy, disease models and computational research in biomedicine, and will offer a prime opportunity […]

The AI Club brings together the Biomedical AI and Machine Learning community in Cambridge, to discuss common themes and explore different topics and methodologies. December Theme Cancer Genomics Gabriel Funingana, CRUK & The Mark Foundation Institute for Integrated Cancer Medicine “Advancing Molecular Classification and Treatment Selection in Ovarian Cancer with Whole-Genome Sequencing and Data Integration” and […]

Join us for the December event in our popular seminar series. December Theme Neurodegeneration 4:00pm Malcolm Roberts, Eisai “The E2814 journey: an antibody targeting the tau MTBR for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease” 4:30pm Lee Dawson, Cerevance “NETSseq reveals deep molecular insights into Neurodegenerative Disease progression and facilitates identification of novel therapeutic targets” 5:00pm Networking, discussion and […]

The AI Club brings together the Biomedical AI and Machine Learning community in Cambridge, to discuss common themes and explore different topics and methodologies. January Theme: New methods in single cell Speakers: Dinithi Sumanaweera (Wellcome Sanger Institute): “Gene-level alignment of single-cell trajectories” and Michael Casey (T-Therapeutics): “How informative is gene expression? Information theory for single-cell transcriptomics analysis” […]

The AI Club brings together the Biomedical AI and Machine Learning community in Cambridge, to discuss common themes and explore different topics and methodologies. February Theme AI in startups AI Club Feb Poster Speakers Brendan Swain, Shift Bioscience "Building accurate cell simulations to unlock safe cellular rejuvenation" Dean Plumbley, CoSyne Therapeutics "Building translatable multi-modal generative AI […]

The next event in our popular Seminar Series will take place on Wednesday, 28th February. This seminar will include time for Q&A and will be followed by refreshments and networking. 4:00pm Professor Gonçalo Bernardes, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge “Translational Chemical Biology” 4:30pm Louise Hosie, Epitopea “Configuring Novel Shared Tumour-Specific Antigens (TSAs) To Build […]

The AI Club brings together the Biomedical AI and Machine Learning community in Cambridge, to discuss common themes and explore different topics and methodologies. March Theme Knowledge Graphs Speakers: Fatima Baldo (Milner Therapeutics Institute) “Introduction to Knowledge Graphs in Drug Repurposing” and Antonio Fabregat (AstraZeneca) “Empowering AZ’s Data Connectivity” Presentations start at 5:30pm, followed by networking […]

Tony Kouzarides FRS, Director of the Milner Therapeutics Institute and Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Cambridge will share his career experiences in academia and business. This event will be followed by networking over food and drinks  at The LAB Cocktail Bar. This event is organized by Building Bridges in Medical Sciences (BBMS) […]

Dr Jonathan Milner, Co-Founder of the Milner Therapeutics Institute and of Abcam plc, is an experienced entrepreneur and investor. He is passionate about supporting UK life science and high-tech start-ups and has provided considerable investment, mentoring and support to over 80 companies including assisting three technology companies to IPO on the London AIM Stock exchange. […]

This event is presented as part of the Cambridge Festival. What is functional genomics and why is AI (artificial intelligence/machine learning) key to its interpretation?  To find out this and more, join the Milner Therapeutics Institute as we take you on a tour through these new areas of medical research. Be ready to encounter big data, big […]

The AI Club brings together the Biomedical AI and Machine Learning community in Cambridge, to discuss common themes and explore different topics and methodologies. April Theme: Large language models for biomedical data Speakers: Andrew Green (EMBL-EBI) "Levelling the playing field: using LLMs to bootstrap curation for ncRNA" and Kenza Bouzid (Microsoft Research) "MAIRA-1: A specialised large multimodal […]

Are you interested in working for a biotech company? This event aims to matchmake students/postdocs with biotech firms, making connections that may lead to opportunities for placement. This event is organised by Cambridge Gravity in collaboration with the Milner Therapeutics Institute. The biotech companies at this matchmaking event have been invited from the Milner Institute’s affiliated […]