Delta G New therapies from understanding ageing

In October 2004 Delta G was proud to receive £130,000 seed funding from The Cambridge Challenge Fund and NESTA.

Cambridge University Challenge Fund. Cambridge University Challenge Fund helps realise the commercial potential of ideas originated by Cambridge University and its associates. The Fund provides; PathFinder funding to carry out market and IP assessments, plan marketing strategies; applied research funding to prove a concept, assess the market; and seed funding up to £250K to set up a new company, joint venture or partnership. The Fund works closely with Cambridge Enterprise Office and the Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre. See the CCF web pages here www.challengefund.cam.ac.uk/index.html for more on the CCF

The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, the organisation that invests in UK creativity and innovation. Set up by Act of Parliament in 1998, NESTA uses the interest on a National Lottery endowment to pioneer ways of supporting and promoting innovation and creativity across science, technology, the arts and learning. For further details, including how to apply, head to www.nesta.org.

Delta G also has a major collaboration with the Medical Research Council, though its Dunn Unit of Human Nutrition in Cambridge, as decribed in Collaborations above