This was the first event of a series of four Symposia presenting the Knowledge Exchange projects supported by The Bloomsbury SET. The event was chaired by Dr Ray Kent (RVC) with presentations from:

• Dr Penny Morton, Programme Manager, Translation at the Medical Research Council, UK
• Dr Gabriela Juarez Martinez – KTN Life Sciences (Pharma/MedTech), Knowledge Transfer Network
• Prof Joanne Webster: Impact of a novel point-of- contact diagnostic test for targeted treatment of zoonotic hybrid and livestock schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa
• Dr Ben Swift – Bloomsbury SET Innovation Fellow – Bacteriophage technology: rapid point-of-care detection and antibiotic resistance profiling of tuberculosis infections
• Dr Kevin Tetteh – Bloomsbury SET Innovation Fellow – Development of a suspension bead assay targeting the zoonotic malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi
• Dr Laura Buggiotti – Bloomsbury SET Innovation Fellow – Mining RNA unmapped reads: developing a fast diagnostic tool for infectious disease in cattle
• Dr Susana Campino, with Prof Taane Clarke, Dr Martin Walker: Neglected malaria parasites: genomic discovery and translation