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Innovator of the year 2012

Networking and award reception

Date: 28 March 2012, 4pm - 7.30pm
Venue: One Great George Street, Westminster, London

Innovator of the Year 2012 will celebrate the success of scientists who have translated their excellent research into social and economic impacts.

This event will focus on how the best researchers have positively changed the lives and work of people outside of their usual professional circles. Each finalist will invite a person whose life they have changed – they could be farmers, nurses, patients or business people, and together they will discuss how investment in research has real life impacts on economic growth and social good.

The reception will include a panel discussion, a networking reception to showcase the innovator finalists and an award ceremony to announce the winners of Innovator of the Year 2012.

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Agenda

• 4:00pm - Guests arrive for networking with tea and coffee
• 4:30pm - Panel discussion
  Working together for impact

  Chair:
  Jeremy Webb, Editor-in-Chief, New Scientist

  Speakers:
  Dr Celia Caulcott, Director of Innovation and Skills, BBSRC
  Glyn Edwards, Chief Executive, UK Bioindustry Association
  Professor Ottoline Leyser, University of Cambridge

• 5:15pm - Networking session with drinks and canapés
  An opportunity for guests to meet the finalists to discuss the routes they have taken to translate their research into economic growth and social good.
• 6:15pm - Awards presentation
  Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable MP
• 6:45pm - Further networking with drinks and canapés
• 7:30pm - Close

Finalists

Commercial Innovator

• Duncan Graham, University of Strathclyde – Molecular diagnostics for improved healthcare using designer surface chemistry and spectroscopy
• Jim Murray, University of Cardiff – BART: Bioluminescent Assay in Real Time for reporting nucleic acid amplification
• Chris Schofield, University of Oxford – Discovery of 'oxygen sensing enzymes' and their development for the treatment of human diseases

Social Innovator

• Russell Foster, University of Oxford – A New Understanding of the Eye
• Mark Hanson, University of Southampton – LifeLab Southampton: Biomedical science engagement to promote health literacy in teenagers
• Richard Mithen, Institute of Food Research – Beneforte broccoli – a consumer product from UK plant research

Most Promising Innovator

• Anthony Hollander, University of Bristol – Stem cell bandage for the repair of torn meniscal cartilage in the knee
• George Lomonossoff, John Innes Centre – A system for the rapid production of vaccines and pharmaceutical proteins in plants
• Polly Roy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – Building viruses from scratch: platform technologies to generate unconventional but safe vaccines for animal disease

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