Jenny Bailey, CEO of Ferryx, with trophy
Gut bacteria Press release issued: 1 July 2021
Ferryx, a biotech company tackling gastrointestinal inflammation, pitched against ten other startups from Bristol’s world-leading tech scene, has won ‘Best Elevator Pitch’ at SETsquared Bristol’s Tech-Xpo on Wednesday 30 June.
SETsquared Bristol is a University of Bristol-led incubator, supporting the growth of technology-based businesses, helping them move from initial ideas into commercial viability.
Tech-Xpo is SETsquared Bristol’s flagship pitch, demo, connect showcase, providing a platform for startups to showcase their innovative technologies and raise investment.
Founded in 2019 as a spin-out from the University of Bristol, Ferryx are tackling the problem of no effective treatment for gastrointestinal inflammation during active disease which does not present negative side effects.
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Some of Britain’s biggest names in the education field of history are warning that the subject could be at risk of becoming a degree for the elite, after two modern universities announced plans to close down their history courses.
Aston University in Birmingham and London South Bank University informed staff last month that they would be cutting history degrees. Aston is consulting on plans to close its entire department of history, languages and translation, and London South Bank has said its degree courses in history and human geography will not recruit from this autumn.
Leonardo da Vinci, as played by Aidan Turner in new period drama
Leonardo, is a man out of his time. He imagines the world from above, sees pioneering cinematic compositions on blank walls, designs war machines that will not be fully realised by other minds until centuries later. Yet this Leonardo is also erratic, and hamstrung by his quest for perfection.
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It is true that the painter often delayed and procrastinated, taking years to complete many of his famous works and leaving countless more unfinished. Bringing humanity to the universally accepted fact of Leonardo’s genius is a new drama, written by Frank Spotnitz and Steve Thompson. But how do you create a 21st-century drama that conveys the ground-breaking nature of Leonardo’s work?