ON eNews
October 2020
We can always be better! Welcome to this October 2020 edition of the One Nucleus eNews. Conscious that as I write this introduction society as a whole; the Life Sciences sector and indeed all of us at an individual level are still operating through various degrees of Covid-19 disruption. That brings challenges and many will look at the decisions by others in puzzlement perhaps along the lines of ‘when was that ever a good idea?’. That said, I strongly suspect we have always looked at other peoples’ decisions at times and had similar thoughts. It is not a Covid-19 phenomenon in my experience and questioning of others along with curiosity are surely the drivers of invention, innovation and progress. There continues however to be good news as well as bad. Light at the end of the tunnel is still burning as we hear about the progress being made in vaccine development, diagnostics and therapeutic research in the battle against Covid-19 alone. That would be doing our sector a disservice, since there is also great progress outside of the Covid-19 focus. I am sure all of our eyes are caught by the excellent flow of new investment and R&D collaboration news within the sector where the UK looks on track for a tremendously successful year across multiple therapeutic and technology areas. Under the Covid-19 news canopy, often created by large corporate or Governmental bodies and in the main stream media spotlight, we should not overlook the green shoots of new companies forming, new enabling technology advances and growing personal journeys not focussed on Covid-19. Much of the news flow can be viewed on any of the One Nucleus online channels such as our website, LinkedIn Group or Twitter where we post, share or like member news to keep you updated. This last week it was a pleasure to host the Daiichi Sankyo webinar, raising awareness of the areas in which they would like to enter R&D collaborations. A fantastic 100+ registrations from across the United Kingdom. We are already seeing follow-up connections and hope to see many more. I have always felt that One Nucleus is very fortunate to be working in one of the most innovative industry sectors there is and even more fortunate that we get to facilitate a large number of those innovative people and organisations meeting and interacting. I feel it imperative One Nucleus is innovative also to support such a network. In forthcoming communications, you will hear about some changes, plans and new activities we will introduce to harness what we had, what we have learned to date and what we will continue to learn in the future. I thank our network for the support, feedback and inspiration to try these new things. Jonathan Ive, Chief Design Officer at Apple once said; “It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better”. The One Nucleus team are never shy of a challenge, are eager to implement some of the changes and keep striving to be better. For sure we will not always take the right turn at the first attempt, but I welcome everyone to join us on the incredible journey.