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November 10th 2021

Nine new businesses take space in the Trust’s two innovation centres

Nine new businesses take space in the Trust’s two innovation centres, Oxford Centre for Innovation & Wood Centre for Innovation

October 27th 2021

Oxford Centre for Innovation tech company Createc launches in Japan

Oxford Centre for Innovation tech company Createc launches in Japan

October 18th 2021

Five minutes with Huw Price, Managing Director of Curiosity Software

Five minutes with Huw Price, Managing Director of Curiosity Software

September 8th 2021

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).

August 19th 2021

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.

August 4th 2021

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.

July 2nd 2021

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).

June 22nd 2021

Optellum wins NHS funding

Optellum wins NHS funding for its AI decision support to detect early-stage lung cancer this week.