Cambridge West is opening its doors for the Cambridge Wide Open Day.

Companies from across Cambridge West will be joining together to showcase their incredible work as part of the Cambridge Wide Open Day, an event which offers a unique insight into the city’s world-renowned innovative industries.

The West Cambridge site is home to University of Cambridge Departments, research institutes, businesses, and start-ups from a range of industries with many academics, entrepreneurs, and employees working across over 100 establishments.

The Cambridge Wide Open Day offers a unique opportunity to meet businesses from across West Cambridge and discover the ground breaking innovations happening on your doorstep.

With the West Hub as the central meeting point for the day, attendees will be able to learn more about the research and developments happening here whilst making new Cambridge connections.

This unique opportunity enables engagement across the broader community - from facilitating introductions that encourage cross-collaboration and boost investment to inspiring the next-generation workforce.

Whether you’re based at the site, you live nearby or you’re from a further field, we welcome you to West Cambridge to learn about and connect with the businesses that call it home!

Schedule for Talks and Demos:

11.30 – 12.00 – Nucleomics

Topic: Sepsis kills 1 in 5. How Cambridge Nucleomics’ rapid diagnostic test will save lives.

Presenter: Dr Hendrik Runge, CEO, Cambridge Nucleomics

12.15-12.45 – Cambridge Zero

Topic: Cambridge Zero Research Engagement: enhancing climate-related research across the university

Presenter: Dr Erik Mackie, Head of Research Engagement Cambridge Zero, University of Cambridge

13.15-13.45 – Semarion

Topic: SemaCyte Demo

Presenterts: Dr Tarun Vemulkar, Co-Founder & CTO, Semarion, Dr Jeroen Verheyen, Co-Founder & CEO, Semarion

14.00-14.30– Rapid X Talk & demo

Topic: Know your infection in 5 minutes

Presenter: Shuler Xu, Co-Founder & CTO of RapidX Bio

Companies Attending:

Cambridge Enterprise: The University of Cambridge is a place of ambition, innovation and imagination. Through Cambridge Enterprise, University research and expertise continues to deliver life-changing outcomes with world-changing impact. Cambridge Enterprise is responsible for supporting the translation of University research to create globally leading economic and social impact. Deeply embedded in the UK’s leading innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem, we have strong relationships with industry, investors and visionaries.

Maxwell Centre: The Maxwell Centre, located at the heart of the West Cambridge Campus, is the centrepiece for industrial engagement and collaborative innovation; we also have a strong connection with the School of Clinical Medicine. The Maxwell Centre provides an active interface linking leading University of Cambridge research across Physical Sciences and Technology with industry and policymakers, to align and connect expertise, and collaboratively develop solutions within strategic challenge areas.

The Maxwell Centre is committed to supporting meaningful partnerships based on: responsible research and innovation, fostering diversity, recognition of mutual complementarity of discovery science and downstream applications, open access to trustworthy expertise, and commitment to delivering positive impacts on the environment and humankind.

Impulse:  Impulse is now in its 8th year of helping high-potential individuals (e.g. PhDs, Postdocs, researchers, and early-stage entrepreneurs) turn their exciting deep tech and life science innovations into viable businesses. Driven by a network of passionate mentors, top-tier entrepreneurs, business experts and investors, participants are given training on commercialisation and the opportunity to refine their business model and develop their personal network.

Cambridge Network: Connecting and supporting businesses. Working with start-ups, scale-ups and established organisations, we facilitate and encourage connections through a diverse range of events, jobs, training courses and peer learning groups to continue to support the success of the Cambridge Cluster

IE Cambridge: IE Cambridge is here to support, inspire and develop entrepreneurial thinking. It's a resource for staff and students interested in all aspects of enterprise and innovation, pointing you to a huge range of activities and support available across the University.

ideaSpace: ideaSpace provides office space and resources for anyone looking to start a new, high impact company in Cambridge. ideaSpace members and their employees benefit from a stimulating working environment, the ability to share experiences with like-minded start-up founders and gain access to some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs and investors.

Cambridge Zero: Cambridge Zero exists to maximise the University of Cambridge’s contribution towards achieving a resilient and sustainable zero-carbon world. Cambridge Zero is not just about developing greener technologies or a zero-carbon university. We are harnessing the full range and breadth of the Collegiate University’s capabilities, both in the UK and globally, to develop solutions that work for our lives, our society and our economy.

Avidity IP: European & UK Patent Attorneys since 1989. Avidity-IP’s team of Patent Attorneys have many years of experience in dealing with challenging and contentious patent cases. Commercially focused; specialising in Life Sciences and Medical Technologies Avidity-IP has developed into a highly respected intellectual property firm representing multi-national clients at the:
Unified Patent Court (UPC)
European Patent Office (EPO)
United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO)

British Antarctic Survey: The British Antarctic Survey strives to uncover the secrets of the Polar Regions and the frozen regions of the Earth. Their expertise spans the depths of the oceans to the inner edge of space.

Their research highlights the fragility of the Earth’s frozen environments, and what that means for our planet. We have been living and working in the extremes of Antarctica and the Arctic for over 60 years. Their scientists discovered the hole in the ozone layer and identified key evidence for climate change in ancient ice – our science continues to inform decision-makers.

Semarion: Semarion is built on fostering collaboration across disciplines to tackle foundational bottlenecks in drug discovery. We operate at the edge of the physical and life sciences by using microchip industry materials and techniques to transform cell-based research.

Cambridge Nucleomics: Cambridge Nucleomics is developing a fully automated one-hour diagnostic test for sepsis (blood poisoning), the acute medical condition killing one in five. Every hour between onset and treatment counts, but existing tests take days. Cambridge Nucleomics identifies the cause and recommends the optimal treatment in just one hour. The test is based on a proprietary ultra-fast RNA-sequencing technology invented in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Find out about our mission to save lives!

RapidX: RapidX Bio, are pioneering a new era of healthcare. Their cutting-edge technology and intuitive app seamlessly bridge symptoms to treatment within minutes. Say goodbye to long waits and uncertainty. Welcome to personalized, instant healthcare solutions.

YPMH: The William Templeton Foundation for Young People’s Mental Health (YPMH) is a charitable foundation working to improve the lives of young people by facilitating innovative approaches to resolve mental health conditions.

YPMH was established in memory of Will Templeton, by his parents Anne and Peter, and his brother John. The family’s aspiration is to enable the ‘joining-up’ of excellent research and practice across the many fields associated with young people’s mental health to improve prevention, identification, diagnosis and treatment of conditions such as depression and anxiety.

West Hub: The West Hub is a versatile meeting place for university members, businesses, entrepreneurs, and the community, offering open workspaces, social areas, and bookable conference rooms. It's a free-access venue featuring a library, café, restaurant/bar, media lab, post office, and convenience store, meeting various needs in one location. The hub hosts diverse events like exhibitions, concerts, seminars, workshops, and sports activities, engaging both university and external audiences.

Royce @ Cambridge: The Henry Royce Institute is the UK's national institute for advanced materials science research and innovation, providing a network of open access deposition, fabrication and characterisation research facilities at the University of Cambridge. The Institute's aim is to drive the development of energy-efficient materials. All equipment is available for use by researchers from academia and SME’s, both locally and nationally, seed funding is often available. Financed by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Royce Cambridge leads the Atoms to Devices research theme. Steering towards activities that underpin the development of novel devices of the future, Royce Cambridge supports the engineering of new technologies that can translate into applications.

The National Physical Laboratory: NPL is the UK’s National Metrology Institute (NMI), a world-leading centre of excellence that provides cutting-edge measurement science, engineering and technology that underpins prosperity and quality of life in the UK.

With rapid advances in science and technology, NPL is building the measurement capability that supports the UK in addressing key national challenges. NPL scientists are developing new measurement, curation and analysis techniques that will provide confidence, as data is being generated faster and in greater volumes than ever before.