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Venture Cafe Cambridge Connect
19th May @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join us in partnership with Convergent Research, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency & Meridial for the next dynamic Venture Cafe Cambridge Connect, where we’ll explore the launch of the UK’s first ever Focused Research Organisations.
Focused Research Organisations are a new institutional model designed to tackle ambitious, societally consequential scientific challenges that fall outside the scope of traditional labs or startups, launched in the UK by ARIA & Convergent Research. Through a moderated conversation and lightning talks from those launching FROs, join us to learn what this model means and how they operate, how ARIA’s scientific organizing principle supports this model, and how Meridial aim to use the approach to tackle large-scale brain mapping.
This event is designed to be substantive: you’ll leave understanding not only what FROs can build, but why this structure exists and what it unlocks for UK science. Join us and explore how Cambridge’s ambitious scientists and founders could access new models for funding, building and scaling.
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