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SUMMARY:Driving regeneration post-COVID via the Life Sciences - Speaker to
  be confirmed
DTSTART:20210225T180000Z
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DESCRIPTION:George Freeman (https://www.georgefreeman.co.uk/) has written 
 and spoken widely on the potential of Britain's science and innovation eco
 nomy to support a sustainable economic recovery and unlock trade and inwar
 d investment opportunities . Before becoming a Conservative MP he worked i
 n venture capital for the biomedical industry. In Parliament\, he got the 
 nickname of 'high tech Hezza' and was appointed the first UK Minister for 
 Life Sciences at the Department of Health and the Department of Business\,
  Innovation and Skills (BIS). He is a co-founder of the 2020 group of cons
 ervative MPs (which he describes as the ‘radical progressive centre grou
 nd’ of the Conservative Party.)\n\nProfessor Nigel Slater is an Emeritus
  Professor of Chemical Engineering\, Life Fellow at Fitzwilliam\, and the 
 Qiushi Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Zhejiang. He
  is a former Pro-Vice Chancellor and Head of the Department of Chemical En
 gineering and Biotechnology at Cambridge\, where he held the Chair of Chem
 ical Engineering 1999 from 2000 to 2020.\n\nWe hope you can join us at 6pm
  on Thursday 25th February. To book your place\, please click: https://www
 .fitz.cam.ac.uk/onlineforms/view.php?id=315825
LOCATION:Zoom
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