(From the Nexxus Life Sciences Website, http://www.nexxusscotland.com/)
A couple of star-gazing astronomers could help save your life. Dr Ben Panter and Professor Alan Heavens, from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Physics and Astronomy, developed a technology to analyse the starlight of distant galaxies, and now they’re using it for medical imaging. They realised that this technology, with its incredible processing speed, can apply to astronomy, medicine, or any field where incredibly large amounts of data present a problem. They have built a company called Blackford Analysis to apply their algorithm to medical imaging and other fields. Continue reading →
PRESS RELEASE – 2nd August 2010
A new software company founded by astronomy experts will embark on an ambitious program of business development at home and in the USA after securing a six-figure investment sum.
Blackford Analysis opens for business today as Scotland’s newest University spin-out company after attracting development cash from a range of investors. Continue reading →
Blackford Analysis has been accepted onto Microsoft’s BizSpark program, an innovative new program that unites startups with entrepreneurial and technology resources in a global community with a common goal of supporting and accelerating the success of a new generation of high-potential Startups. Continue reading →
Update: Blackford Analysis has now filled all positions. If you are interested in hearing about similar posts in the future, please contact the company using the email address below
Blackford Analysis seeks a software engineer to join the team developing our first product, a solution that improves radiologist throughput by 10%, with the potential to save $1.2bn in the USA alone.
We’re looking for someone who lives and breathes programming, and has a deep and varied knowledge of multiple platforms, languages and concepts. The essential skills are an excellent grounding in C/C++ and windows, but experience of .net, java and CUDA would also be helpful. Most of all we need you to understand the customer’s needs, and be able to write software that addresses them. Continue reading →
Blackford Analysis Ltd. has been invited to exhibit at the National e-Science Centre’s Data Intensive Research workshop. The Blackford team will be demonstrating their real-time Registration Engine, aligning medical scans in under a second. Ben Panter and Alan Heavens will be on hand to discuss applications of the technology in other sectors. Continue reading →
