Postdigital education in a biotech future

Questionnaire for a Biotech

How and when did your company start, and where are you located? NovaDigm was founded in 2005 by a group of investigators at the los Angeles Biomedical research institute (lA BioMed) and the Division of infectious Diseases at Harbor-UclA Medical center. The company received its first venture capital funding from Domain Associates in 2008 and established its corporate headquarters and laboratory ...

Education in a Smart City: Future Impacts on Education?

Postdigital Play and the Aesthetics of Recruitment

This paper analyses reconfigurations of play in newly emergent material and digital configurations of game design. It extends recent work examining dimensions of hybridity in playful products by turning attention to interfaces, practices and spaces, rather than devices. We argue that the concept of hybrid play relies on predefining clear and distinct entities that then enter into hybrid situati...

Special: Biotech in Russia

Traditions of Russian fundamental and applied life sciences go back to the last third of the nineteenth century, the reign of “Tzar-Liberator” Alexander II. Basic scientific schools in organic chemistry and life sciences appeared in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Kiev, and Warshaw. Since then, Russian bioscience and biotechnology has experienced rises and falls together with the whole country.

Medical education: future-proof?

External site visits as part of the process of accreditation are an important aspect of quality control of medical education programmes. In 2011/2012 all medical schools (University Medical Centres, UMCs) in the Netherlands had such a visit. According to the accreditation system of the Netherlands and Flanders, accreditation has to be renewed every 6 years. The preparation of the site visit sta...