RE: SOME SAD NEWS16 Jun 2026 17:42
Just found the below on LinkedIn. Looks like a chum sesh.
Have a good evening peoples xx
🚀 Where is the smart money going in UK Biotech? 🚀
With Cambridge Wide Open Week - A week of life sciences @ the home of life sciences (#CWOW) kicking off next week, the countdown is officially on for our Creative Disruption Forum on Dealmaking & Funding Strategies on Wednesday, 17 June at the Mills & Reeve HQ in Cambridge.
No death-by-powerpoint. No scripted pitches. Just raw, honest, Chatham House-style debate between biotech founders, investors, and pharma partners tackling the realities of scaling and funding innovation today.
We are incredibly proud to bring together a stellar line-up of industry leaders, innovators, and ecosystem enablers to drive the conversation:
💡 Biotech Founders & Leaders pushing frontiers:
Jenny Barnett (Monument Tx)
Susan Hill (Mestag Tx)
Nicki Thompson (TRIMTECH Tx)
David Venables (Laverock Tx)
Toby Wilson Waterworth (Ambrose Healthcare)
Ron (Roni) A. Jortner (Aspire Biosciences)
David Boothe (Exert Tx)
Dan Gooding (Nuformix)
Dmitry Veprintsev 🇬🇧 🇨🇭 (AAB Tx)
David Henderson (Mironid Tx)
Paul Kerr (Finn Tx)
Allan Syms (Sizzle Biotech)
Chandan Seth Nanda (ToxiProofAI)
🤝 Big Pharma, Investment & Growth Experts:
Duncan Young (AstraZeneca)
Martin Rigby (ET Capital)
Stephanie Aldridge (Innovate UK Business Growth)
Prof Steve Cohlan (Anglia Ruskin University)
James FRY (Mills & Reeve)
Steered by our resident thought-leader, Prof Tony Sedgwick, we’ll be breaking down what it actually takes to close deals, manage risk, and secure investment in the current macro environment.
The room is capped to ensure high-impact, intimate networking. If you are a life science founder, executive, or investor looking for genuine peer-to-peer dialogue, you need to be in this room.
📅 When: Wednesday, 17 June 📍 Where: Mills & Reeve HQ, Cambridge
Further details and tickets are available on this Eventbrite link:
https://lnkd.in/eSv45BuV
This #CDF starts at a slightly earlier time than usual of 9 am and finishes at 3.30 pm. Many of us from this CDF will go to the #CWOW Garden Party at Hauxton House which is 4-9 pm, and a few more will be finding a #Cambridge pub at 9 pm to watch the England vs Croatia. What's more, we'll be staying over in #Cambridge ready for our 18 June #CDF on Modern #DrugDiscovery strategies, further details of that is on this link:
https://lnkd.in/eKX3bbXY
Very much looking forward to an informative, engaging, connective and fun time in Cambridge next week, we hope to see you there!??!
#BiotechBuddies #CreativeDisruptionForum #LifeSciences #Biotech #VentureCapital #DrugDiscovery #CambridgeWideOpenWeek #Networking Louise Border