Five minutes with Simon Jones, CEO of Helio Display Materials
Helio Display Materials moved into the Wood Centre for Innovation in April with a mission to revolutionise television screen performance with its new technology that makes colours more vivid while reducing power consumption.
Five minutes with Rhys Newman, Co-Founder & CSO of Visionary Machines
We spoke to Dr Rhys Newman, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, about Visionary Machines and the software they are developing to create superhuman vision for machines.
Five minutes with Alex Batchelor, Co-founder & CEO at OxDX
OxDX Ltd has moved into R&D labs at the Trust’s Wood Centre for Innovation to commercialise a novel approach of detecting pathogens by the unique light signature they emit when made fluorescent.
Five minutes with James Peach, Co-founder & CEO at Human Centric Drug Discovery
Starting with migraines, Human Centric Drug Discovery is relying on human data to find a new generation of drugs to treat brain disorders.
Flurry of new companies join our two innovation centres
In the last three months, we’ve seen a flurry of new companies joining our two innovation centres in Oxford, with nine new science and tech start-ups and SMEs joining our thriving community.
Further government funding supports phase II R&D lab conversion at The Oxford Trust’s Wood Centre for Innovation
The Oxford Trust, the local charity encouraging the pursuit of science and enterprise, is to commence the second phase of its conversion of dedicated high spec laboratory facilities at its Wood Centre for Innovation in Headington, Oxford, following £0.2 million additional Local Growth Fund support, secured by the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP).
Client company Optellum announces strategic collaboration with Johnson & Johnson
Optellum, a lung-health AI company based at our Oxford Centre for Innovation, has just announced a strategic collaboration with the Lung Cancer Initiative at Johnson & Johnson. Through the collaboration, Optellum will use its AI-powered clinical decision support platform to increase lung cancer survival rates through early intervention and prevention.
How The Trust and its partners support Science and Tech Start-Ups
An independent charitable trust, The Oxford Trust was set up by Sir Martin and Lady Audrey Wood 36 years ago to “encourage the pursuit of science and enterprise”. Their experience of setting up Oxford Instruments, one of the University of Oxford’s early, and some say most successful, spinouts enabled them to appreciate the challenges that face young entrepreneurs.
High Sheriff of Oxfordshire opens up new R&D Laboratories at Wood Centre for Innovation
Imam Monawar Hussain, the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire and one of our trustees, officially opened our newly-converted class II R&D laboratories at the Wood Centre for Innovation alongside Jeremy Long, chair of the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP).
