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Deodorant Innovation: Opportunities and emerging technologies
In this blog, our Senior Innovation Consultant, Dr Katerina Steventon, looks at emerging industry trends in deodorant innovation and current research taking place, whilst addressing the affect body odour has on consumers' mental health - with insights from our...
Highlights from our Marine Biofouling Webinars
Recently NBIC, Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) jointly hosted a series of 3 webinars focused on the challenges and opportunities presented by Marine Biofouling. Our Senior Innovation...
From Academic to Entrepreneur
Some academics dream to become entrepreneurs early on in their career, however, the decision to switch to a distinctly different career path and associated risks may prevent them from embarking on the journey. We have asked researchers that have decided to step...
Feminine health and hygiene: an exciting category with a potential for growth
Feminine health is a personal care segment with an increased demand from consumers, who are taking a more active role in their health and wellbeing. Vaginal infections require medical treatment but the preventative role of personal care is on-trend, in particular...
Research, Innovation and University Engagement
What is research? This is a question that requires some thought, especially when research is being carried out by a partnership between a university and a company. Our partner Dr Gill Westgate, from Cosmetics Cluster UK (CCUK), looks at research and development in the...
Concluding the Oral Care Industry Appeal with CCUK
Having worked with the Cosmetics Cluster UK (CCUK) on an appeal for companies operating in the oral care sector, we would like to conclude this call. We have reached out to industry and encouraged SME’s to come forward and join NBIC as an industry partner, for...
YMS2020: Inspiring the next generation of scientists…online
NBIC is proud to have supported this year’s Young Microbiologists Symposium (YMS) with the theme ‘Microbe signalling, organisation and pathogenesis.’ Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting was held as a virtual event on 26-27 August. In this entry for the...
Microbiome-targeted skincare
Our Senior Innovation Consultant, Dr Katerina Steventon was one of the speakers at the Cosmetics Business Future of Clean Skincare event which took place on 15 September. We’ve put together some key points from her presentation surrounding microbiome-targeted...
India Biofilms Society: Building a Community of Researchers
NBIC have recently connected with the newly formed India Biofilms Society with the goal of better connecting the UK and India biofilms communities. In this blog, Snehal Kadam and Karishma S Kaushik reflect on how the society was established and detail their plans for...
How to manage and influence the skin microbiome
New approaches to the skin microbiome have evolved over recent years; the industry started to view ‘the microbial layer’ as the most outer layer of our body e.g. the Givaudan-termed ‘Stratum microbium™' and acknowledged the importance of bacteria on the skin, renaming...
Open Innovation for SMEs in the Personal Care Sector
Open Innovation is often ‘an innovation in itself’; it enables a company to integrate external knowledge and ideas and co-create products or services, commercialise existing technologies or improve competencies in new markets. Successful open innovation increases...
CITER research webinar: Biofilms in Health and Disease
On 24 June 2020, Cardiff Institute for Tissue Engineering and Repair (CITER) hosted their first virtual research webinar, Biofilms in Health and Disease, giving researchers a unique opportunity to discuss rapid advances that have developed in the field over the past...