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BIONABU Health Entrepreneurship and Innovation Summit 2022

October 2022

Event date: 22nd October 2022

HGF is a gold sponsor at the Bionabu Health Entrepreneurship and Innovation Summit 2022.

The summit will be held at St Thomas’ Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London on October 22nd. This event will enable MedTech students, innovates, entrepreneurs, professionals and investors to share their passion, expertise and experience.

HGF Partner & Patent Attorney Craig Thomson will be speaking as part of the ‘Mind the Gap’ panel and will be involved in the ‘Conversation Clusters’ where his topic is ‘Technology & Intellectual Property’.

 

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