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Kristen Stoops appointed Business Development Director at Oxford Nanopore Oct 2011
GenomeWeb notes that Kristen Stoops has been appointed Business Development Director.
Stoops has more than 14 years of business development experience in life sciences technology companies, including a seven-year tenure with software firm Spotfire (now part of Tibco), where she directed all aspects of its commercial partner program in life sciences.
From 2006 to 2008, Stoops served as director of informatics business development at Helicos BioScience...
PHG (Public Health Genomics) Foundation report: Oct 2011
The PHG Foundation has issued a report on the implications of whole genome sequencing for health in the UK. The report provides a comprehensive review of the potential clinical applications of DNA sequencing and the issues that need to be considered when making the most of new technologies to benefit patients within the NHS. The report recommends that the NHS needs to consider the following key issues:
• Creation of new biomedical informatics expertise within the NHS and building database...
Nanopore web special in Nature Nanotechnology Oct 2011
For a review of some of the best papers on nanopores in recent years, this web special in Nature Nanotechnology features many of Oxford Nanopore's collaborators, across the areas of biological and solid state nanopores. Watch out for Professor Hagan Bayley, Professor Mark Akeson, Professor Gene Golovchenko, Professor Dan Branton.
Accelrys NGS Collection for Pipeline Pilot Aug 2011
If you are interested in reading more about the Pipeline Pilot NGS Collection, developed by Accelrys in conjunction with Oxford Nanopore collaborators, you can request a download of a case study at the Accelrys website.
Oxford Nanopore and Accelrys signed an agreement in March 2011he NGS Collection will be the preferred and supported informatics solution for secondar...
Professor Hagan Bayley elected to the Royal Society Jun 2011
Professor Hagan Bayley, on whose science Oxford Nanopore was founded in 2005, has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society said: “It is a true pleasure to welcome this year’s new Fellows to the Royal Society. They join the ranks of the UK and Commonwealth’s leading scientists, counting themselves among early Fellows such as Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle and Charles Darwin. The Society aims to expand the frontiers of knowledge by championing the development and use o...
AGBT, February 2011 Feb 2011
Every year, the world's genome researchers and technologists descend on Marco Island for a review of the latest science and technology advances in the field. Recent conferences have seen an increasing emphasis on the clinical applications of DNA sequencing, and the 2011 conference featured a plenary session and concurrent session on Cancer Genomics.
With a subdued blogging and tweeting policy, live writeups were less common but writeups from
Oxford Nanopore wins techMARK Emerging star award Nov 2010
techMARK is an index on the London Stock Exchange, gathering a range of technology companies from software to healthcare. The techMARK awards, sponsored by PWC, recognise achievement in the these companies and the Emerging Star award is given to a private company showing substantial growth, with great potential to contribute to the UK economy. For more information about the awards, click here.
