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Caroline Green named as new Chief Executive at Oxford City Council
The current Assistant Chief Executive will succeed Gordon Mitchell who is due to step down in the new year.
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Have your say on County Council budget proposals for 2021/22
The council is proposing to increase council tax by 1.99%, and would also like to know what you think of an additional increase, up to 3%, for adult social care.
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Williams Racing appoints Jost Capito as Chief Executive Officer
Reporting into Matthew Savage, Williams Racing Chairman, he will take full responsibility for the day-to-day running of the company from 01 February 2021.
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Professor Sir Rory Collins awarded the MRC Millennium Medal 2020
He is being honoured for his transformative national and international contributions to both cardiovascular disease and UK Biobank.
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Funding and support available for energy storage companies
The Faraday Institution and Cambridge Cleantech have teamed up to help SMEs bring their innovative energy storage products to market.
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Tinbergen building demolition work completed
The Tinbergen building – located on the junction of St Cross Road and South Parks Road – was the University’s largest teaching and research building before its closure in February 2017.
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£600k investment in M40 rural eco-office development now fully let
White Commercial Surveyors has successfully leased out all the office premises at the Courtyard Office Suites at Upper Aynho Grounds.
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Sensyne Health launches diabetes monitoring product in US
The solution will be offered to US health systems and health plans through Cognizant, their US sales and marketing partner.
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Oxfordshire County Council highway team project up for national award
The project to reform its highways service has brought in an extra £400,000 a year, increased public satisfaction, and helped residents highlight which roads need fixing.
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Oxford BioDynamics appoints non-executive chairman
The biotechnology company developing personalised medicine tests based on 3D genomic biomarkers, has announced that Matthew Wakefield as its Non-Executive Chairman.
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Government funding for space innovation businesses in Oxfordshire
Several Oxfordshire-based companies have been awarded a share of over £7 million of funding to put the UK at the forefront of the latest advances in space innovation.
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Oxford University most influential research institution in the UK
With 52 individuals on the 2020 Highly Cite Researchers List, Oxford’s academics are the most cited researchers in the UK and the second most cited in Europe.
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Atkins and Faithful+Gould relocate office to Oxford city centre
This will see 60 architects, engineers, cost consultants and project managers move to a new home at ‘One St Aldates’, part of the Town Hall building.
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Milton Park refreshes brand identity and launches new website
The brand refresh has resulted in refining its values to four: ‘welcoming’, ‘dynamic’, ‘vibrant’ and ‘proud’, and launching a new brand identity and website.
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Oxfordshire County Council to accelerate A40 improvement scheme
Plans include better connections into Oxford with acceleration of a new park and ride at Eynsham as part of the Science Transit 2 (ST2) scheme for the A40.
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Therapeutics company PepGen raises $45m Series A funding
The funding round was led by RA Capital Management with participation from Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI), the company’s original seed investor, University of Oxford and CureDuchenne.