NU/1246-1 STEMGEL: Commercialisation of university research through provision of management skills to assist in successful spin-out company creation

Prof. Che Connon of Newcastle University has invented a cell encapsulation technology which provides a novel solution to the many problems associated with the transportation and storage of cells and cultures. The proposal is to set up a company ("StemGel") to exploit the commercial opportunities presented by the core technology platform. Those opportunities span a wide range of segments of the overall life sciences sector, including, but not limited to, research tools for the individual laboratory researcher throug...