Spinoff Prize Outlook 2024

Nature introduces the finalists and those that made it on to the longlist for this year’s award.

Determining who needs chemotherapy can be an expensive and complex task. A new technology could make the process more accessible.

Joining a drug candidate to a protein that malignant cells naturally take up allowed one firm to come up with a potent anti-cancer therapy.

Drooling into a tube is not only more comfortable than nasal testing, it could also detect disease earlier.

Getting molecules into cells using viral vectors or electroporation is expensive and laborious. The winner of the Spinoff Prize 2024 is showing that laser-heated nanoparticles could be an alternative solution.

Although not chosen to be finalists, these seven science-based university spin-off companies offer potentially high-impact innovations.

Innovation straddles policy, change management, budgeting, negotiating and influencing skills. Researchers need all these and more, says David Bogle.

Landing tenure is a pipe dream for most postdoctoral researchers. They need business skills to help them thrive outside academia.

Longitudinal evaluation of the Biomedical Entrepreneurship Educational Program suggests the program successfully educates and inspires the next generation of life science and biotechnology innovators.

Early-stage researchers can greatly benefit from education and skills development in venture creation and commercialization of discoveries.

Biotech startups benefit society by solving unmet scientific and medical needs, but more can be done to move their technologies to market more quickly.

This International Women in Engineering Day (INWED 2024) Communications Engineering celebrates women in innovative startups.

Collaborations between researchers and companies can progress swimmingly and teams quickly validate findings and mature methods. All too often, things can’t advance and the ‘Valley of Death’ looms. New ways to collaborate, underpinned by computational muscle, can help.