UCL Announces Seventh Annual Enterprise Awards

UCL has announced its Awards for Enterprise to recognize the achievements of students, graduates and academic staff to furthering enterprise and entrepreneurship on campus with a ceremony on the evening of Thursday 29 May. In a first for the Awards, which are in their seventh year, designer Wayne Hemmingway was presented with the inaugural 'UCL Entrepreneurial Alumnus of the Year'. He was selected by a panel that included members of UCL's Enterprise Division, our Alumni Relations team and a small number of external judges. New for 2014, the award recognizes an alumnus of UCL who is a serial entrepreneur and the impact they have had on wider society. In their seventh year, the Awards celebrate the exciting new business ideas of student and graduate entrepreneurs - ranging from Granddad's Kitchen, offering Caribbean seasonings inspired by the father of 'Hackney Heroine' Pauline Pearce, to a new web platform set to revolutionize property investing - as well as showcasing the entrepreneurial activities of staff and sector-leading partnerships between UCL and the business community. Following a long-standing partnership to further neuroscience research, Eisai, the Japanese pharmaceutical company, has been awarded the UCL Corporate Partner of the Year Award 2014. The organizations have also recently formed a major drug discovery alliance with the concept of open innovation to investigate radical new ways of treating neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.