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Virtual AIMday in the Microbiome - registration for academics now open

Events General

On Wednesday 1 July we are hosting an AIMday in the Microbiome, bringing academic and clinical excellence from across the University of Oxford together with industry to help answer the most pressing challenges in this area, as identified by industry.

Are you an academic interested in finding out how your knowledge can be used to solve industry challenges? Would you like to widen your network? Meet potential collaborators / future employees? Gain insights into relevant funding schemes? If you answer YES to any of the above, now is the time to register for our virtual AIMday in the Microbiome

This event will bring together industry with academia to discuss key challenges in the microbiome sector. The AIMday format allows industry to propose challenges for one-hour roundtable discussions with groups of relevant academics and clinicians from Oxford. For academics, this is a great chance to see how your research can be applied in industry and to meet potential future collaborators. To see the list of challenges put forward by industry please click here. For more information on the event format see ‘How AIMdays work’.

This AIMday is only open to academics and clinicians affiliated with the University of Oxford/Oxford University Hospitals.

FREE registration closes on Wednesday 24 June (advance registration is essential)

Full details and to register: https://aimday.se/microbiome-oxford-2020

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