Professor Ann Dowling “Towards a Silent Aircraft”

Thursday 10th November 2011
Ann Dowling made her talk about the design of a ‘silent’ aircraft accessible on many different levels. Although she apologized to sound specialists in the audience, I am sure they would have got a lot out of her talk and I found myself wishing I had brought my 12 year old daughter along, such was the breadth of the appeal.
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Profile: Dr Madhuri Warren – CEO and Founder, Pathology Diagnostics Ltd

Dr. Warren graduated from Clare College, University of Cambridge with a first class honours degree in Medicine, and after UK board certification in histopathology and a CRUK PhD Fellowship in molecular biology at the ICR, London, pursued an extensive career in academic medicine and cancer research in London and Cambridge, including authorship of over 30 papers and articles in high ranking journals. She established an academic pathology research lab in Cambridge before founding Pathology Diagnostics Ltd. She has led this company from start-up to a high growth business which has won several awards over the last 3 years including ERBI Best Biotech/Medtech Start Up Company.

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Profile: Dr Ann Clarke – co-founder, The Frozen Ark

I was a mature student of 23 when I did a BSc in Zoology at Edinburgh University followed by a PhD. Thereafter I became a research scientist at Nottingham University in the Medical School and at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge studying the immunologicial intereactions that occur between the mammalian mother and her baby. The work tried to understand why the baby, whose inherits half its antigens from the father which are foreign to her, is not rejected like any other foreign graft. I was also an Inspector for the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority for 6 years, taught at Nottingham University and was a member of 6 scientific expeditions to the islands of French Polynesian Islands and the Tongian Archipeligo. As a result of these trips, on my retirement in 2000 I became involved in the creation of a charity, which we named The Frozen Ark. I have been busy on this project to preserve the genetic resources of the world’s endangered wild animals before they go extinct ever since.

Profile: Dr Jenny Brookman – College Supervisor in Molecular Sciences

I have been a steering group member of Cambridge AWiSE since 2004.

I am from Sydney Australia and gained a BSc Hons (I) from the University of Sydney followed by a PhD in Biochemistry from the Australian National University in Canberra.    I arrived in England in 1978 as a post-doc in cell and developmental biology at the former Mill Hill labs of the ICRF, now Cancer Research UK. With a move to Cambridge, I continued my research at the University in molecular genetics and genomics, specialising in development in the model organism Drosophila.
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An Audience with Professor Dame Sandra Dawson (24th Nov)

Please join us at  “An Audience with Professor Dame Sandra Dawson”
A joint event organised by Cambridge Businesswomen’s Network and Cambridge AWiSE.

Dame Sandra Dawson is an inspirational speaker and this event has been two years in the making!

About Dame Sandra Dawson 

Professor Dame Sandra Dawson is a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, the KPMG Professor of Management Studies at Judge Business School (where she served as Dean for ten years), and was the first female Master of Sidney Sussex College. In 2004 she was awarded a DBE for her contribution to higher education and management research.
Sandra Dawson graduated with a BA in sociology and history from Keele University and worked as a research assistant, lecturer and professor at Imperial, London, before moving to Cambridge in 1995. Last year Alistair Darling appointed her non-executive director of the UK Financial Services Authority, and she is currently a non-executive director and trustee of Oxfam. She has held board positions in numerous health organizations and financial services companies.
Sandra writes and teaches on leadership, governance, and the management of change and is author of numerous articles and several books.  She is married with three grown-up children and lives in Willingham.

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The Accidental Entrepreneur: Different Pathways to Success (28th Nov)

Why do people become entrepreneurs?  Please join us for a fascinating insight into entrepreneurship with a panel of four entrepreneurs whose career paths defy stereotypes.
Chaired by Claire Ruskin, CEO Cambridge Network.

One not to miss… 
“The Accidental Entrepreneur: Different Pathways to Success”.
Monday 28th November 2011, 6.30-9.30pm, Hidden Rooms, Cambridge.
Our panel:
Dr Ann Clarke (co-Founder, Frozen Ark)
Andrew Hatcher (MD, Applied Knowledge)
Julie Barnes (CEO, Abcodia)
Dr Madhuri Warren (Founder and MD, Pathology Diagnostics)

How and why do people come into entrepreneurship? For many so-called “accidental entrepreneurs” the driving force may be a particular skill they have that they can’t utilise any other way, or the ability to recognise a gap in the market that they realise needs to be filled, or it might be that their personal circumstances have meant that a “proper job” is out of the question.  In this meeting we’re providing a forum where people can showcase that you can be successful without conforming to the stereotypical image of an entrepreneur and that actually it is OK to have a different notion of success.

The idea for this event arose from discussions about the motivations and realities of women starting up businesses and becoming entrepreneurs. However, ‘accidental’ entrepreneurs aren’t limited to women, indeed many entrepreneurs – both men and women – have fascinating tales about how they ended up doing what they do.

Programme
a) Introduction
b) Dr Shima Barakat (CfEL) – themes that have emerged from research into women entrepreneurs
c) Panel discussion chaired by Claire Ruskin – personal stories from entrepreneurs in the hi-tech and biotech sector who ended up as entrepreneurs “by accident” or not as their initial objective
d) Open discussion with panellists
Panel: Ann Clarke (co-Founder, Frozen Ark), Andrew Hatcher (MD, Applied Knowledge), Julie Barnes (CEO, Abcodia),  and Dr Madhuri Warren (Founder and MD, Pathology Diagnostics)
 
Event details
“The Accidental Entrepreneur: Different Pathways to Success”.
Organised by Cambridge AWiSE, CfEL and Startup Masterclass. 
Monday 28th November 2011, 6.30pm (for 7pm)-9.30pm.
CamAWiSE members and early bird: £5
Non-members:  £10
(includes one complimentary drink on arrival)

Please register in advance at http://startupmasterclass.co.uk/programme/cambridge/

Venue: Hidden Rooms, 7a Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BA.  The entrance to the Hidden Rooms is the side door to the right of the entrance to Pizza Express.
 
You can download a flyer from http://camawise.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/the-accidental-entrepreneur-28nov11.pdf

Profile: Dr Jenny Koenig – Consultant with Science ETC

Cambridge AWiSE member – DR JENNY KOENIG

I’m a consultant with Science ETC – a Science Education, Training and Communications Consultancy.

I’m also a Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge where I teach pharmacology and maths for biologists part time during term and am Dean (also part time). I also work at the Disability Resource Centre in the University of Cambridge helping students with Specific Learning Difficulties develop their study skills.

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Profile: Dr Tanya Morton – Application Engineering Manager at MathWorks

Cambridge AWiSE member – DR TANYA MORTON

I have been a steering group member for Cambridge AWiSE since 2004.

I am privileged to be the Application Engineering Manager at MathWorks. MathWorks is the developer of MATLAB and Simulink, software tools that are widely used by scientists, engineers, and mathematicians.

My team help customers apply MathWorks’ tools to their technical challenges in education and business. The Application Engineering role gives an unrivalled appreciation of the diversity of applications of mathematics. My team supports a variety of application areas including optimisation, statistics, modelling, image and signal processing, and control design. We work with customers across a broad range of industries including automotive, aerospace, education, energy production, finance, and biotech/pharmaceutical.

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“Mentoring for Success” – a great success!

Our ‘Mentoring for Success’ Meeting on Tuesday 11th October was itself a great success. About 35 women attended from diverse backgrounds in academia, industry and enterprise. The Workshop was led superbly by Jacqui Hogan, the current MentorSET manager. Jacqui discussed the mechanism of the mentoring partnership between mentor and mentee. This led to a practical mentoring exercise for everyone to play the role of mentor then mentee and work through their own specific career issues. It produced a very interactive evening and encouraged many to think about a mentoring partnership so it was particularly pleasing that the workshop resulted in the beginnings of several mentoring pairs. The evening highlighted clearly the role CamAWiSE can play in facilitating access to the MentorSET mentoring scheme and the benefits of the networking at Cambridge AWiSE meetings.

Jenny Brookman

Workshop - exploring the mentor-mentee partnership

Jacqui Hogan, MentorSET manager

Cambridge Science XChange

Part of the Festival of Ideas, this free day of science activities for all ages is from the founders of the Cambridge Science Centre www.cambridgesciencecentre.org). Professor Athene Donald will speak in the afternoon about science for all and why girls may feel excluded from science.
Sunday 23rd October,11am-4pm, FREE (drop in event) . Please download a flyer Cambridge Science XChange.