In this episode we explore Cambridge Judge Business School’s EnterpriseTECH and EnterpriseTECH STAR programmes as innovative programmes that support research translation from the perspective of Head of Entrepreneurial Learning Programmes Dr Rebecca Myers.

Rebecca shares her journey from being a mature student to becoming an organic chemist working in the University’s Chemistry Department for nearly 20 years to leading on the development of two successful entrepreneurship programmes that serve the research community: EnterpriseTECH and EnterpriseTECH STAR.

Rebecca gives insights into the inner workings of the programmes from their early days and how the learning and skills participants gain act as a catalyst in furthering entrepreneurial journeys.

Rebecca joined the Entrepreneurship Centre in 2018 intending to build educational programmes on entrepreneurship that serve the research community. The first was EnterpriseTECH in 2018, which has had close to 450 students attend. Then came EnterpriseTECH STAR in 2019 to help researchers begin the journey towards forming their own new ventures.

For close to 20 years, Rebecca’s home was the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. She is an organic chemist by training having done her PhD with Professor Chris Abell FRS. Rebecca then worked with Professor Steven Ley CBE FRS in the Department of Chemistry. She was also the Associate Director of the Cambridge-CRUK PhD Training Programme in Medicinal Chemistry led by Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian FRS for ten years. Her research and publications cover many areas of medicinal chemistry, particularly around cancer research.

Rebecca values collaborative efforts and is passionate about cultivating meaningful research impact and creating opportunities for researchers to thrive beyond academia.