Start-Up Breakfast with IP Drop-In & Lab Tours

​As part of Cambridge Wide Open Day, we're throwing open the doors to First-Step by journey for a relaxed drop-in breakfast.

​Come and explore our flexible lab space for start-ups in near the West Cambridge Campus, enjoy some breakfast rolls and meet our IP specialists from Marks & Clerk — one of the UK's leading patent and trade mark firms — who'll be on hand for informal chats throughout the morning.

​Whether you're thinking of starting a new venture, or are an established start-up, or simply curious about what's possible in Cambridge, you're welcome!

​Meet the Marks & Clerk team:

​Tom Grendon has a background in theoretical physics having earnt a MSci. degree in Natural Sciences (Maths and Physics) at Durham University. His technical focus on patent applications has been focused in the fields of, in particular, telecommunications, image processing and medical devices.

​Georgia Rundle is part of M&C’s Life Science team, having completed an integrated Master’s degree in Biosciences from Durham University, where she specialized in biomedical studies and graduated in 2021. Some recent work includes a secondment with a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Cambridge as well as agri-tech having worked across a broad spectrum of exciting technologies, such as chimeric plant proteins, genetically modified crops, and advanced plant transformation systems.