Friday 15th June 2018, 11:00am
Kate Cameron, a current BBSRC Enterprise Fellow has won the Higgs EDGE Science and Technology Special Award prize at the Scottish EDGE Round 12 awards finals. Kate secured the top prize worth £150,000 for innovation in science and technology.
Kate’s start-up stem cell research business, Cytochroma, seeks to address the increasingly expensive but less effective practices of drug discovery through developing stable, scale-able, reliable, DILI predictive human liver cells in a fast, cheap and sensitive screening method, which will accurately identify toxicity.
Kate is a BBSRC funded Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellowship, hosted by Edinburgh Innovations. The RSE Enterprise Fellowship, Scotland’s leading bi-annual business development and training programme for the Higher Education sector, enables and accelerates promising science and technology researchers to develop into successful and world-class entrepreneurs.
“I am delighted to have won the Scottish EDGE Higgs prize, a special award for high scale potential STEM focused businesses.
As a BBSRC funded RSE enterprise fellow, I have received incredible support and access to an array of experts. The team at Entrepreneur Business School have provided fantastic training and helped me develop my business plan and pitching. Margaret Anne Craig’s mentorship has been invaluable in my EDGE prep. The prize money will enable me to build and expand my company, carry out essential validation studies and hopefully attract significant customers and investment.”
Kate Cameron, CEO of CytochromaRoslin Innovation Centre
The University of Edinburgh
Easter Bush Campus
Midlothian EH25 9RG
