Medical
Assessing the route to market for a diagnostic tool for
Inventors: Professor Tuomas Knowles & Dr Aviad Levin, Chemistry Current diagnoses of Parkinsons disease rely on post-mortem analysis or the presence of symptomatic disease. However by the time symptoms emerge the disease itself has already progressed sufficiently to cause permanent neurological damage. Parkinsons, in common with several other neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimers and Huntingdons…
Harnessing the power of bacteria for disease prevention and sustainable
Inventor: Dr. Alicia Showering, BugBiome The founder of BugBiome, Dr. Alicia Showering, studied differences in the skin microbiome during her PhD research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In particular she researched how differences in the skin microbiome are associated with attractiveness to mosquitoes and how this then influences whether the mosquitoes…
Identifying degraded proteins and peptides in food and other protein-based
Inventor: Dr. Matthew Collings, Archaeology & Peptinsure The team in Archaeology has developed extensive expertise in analysing ancient food residues and parchment and leather samples. Through their data analysis techniques they have been able to progress from only identifying 3% of the compounds present in a food sample to now being able to identify closer…
Investigating the need for a Splayer device to reduce hand
Inventor: Mr. Amit Agrawal, Consultant Oncoplastic and Reconstructive Breast Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospitals During breast surgery, the skin needs to be retracted for a period of time and then put back in place. Traditionally this is done either with a metal and plastic retractor or with the surgeon’s own fingers, but this can be very…
Assessing the best markets for a new way of measuring
Inventors: Dr. Isaac Johnson, CRUK & Verinnogen, and Mike Irvine, Verinnogen Mentor: Dr. Elena de Orbe, i-Teams alumni Many experiments and treatments rely on measuring and monitoring the sizes of three-dimensional structures in the body. Typically tumours are measured using two caliper-based measurements, which are then used to provide an estimate of the three-dimensional volume,…
Identifying new applications for continuous monitoring of bodily fluids
Inventors: Dr. Farah Alimagham, Dr. Keri Carpenter & Dr. Tanya Hutter, Clinical Neurosciences Publication: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c01149 The brains of patients suffering from traumatic brain injury undergo rapid chemical changes in the first days following the initial trauma. Accurate and timely monitoring of these changes is important for improving patient outcomes. Conventionally this is done by collecting…
Exploring the use of VR systems in helping autistic children
Inventor: Bang Ming Yong, Institute for Manufacturing Mentor: TBC The inventor has been working with Virtual Reality (VR) systems over the past 4 years, investigating their use in a variety of scenarios. More recently he has been working on the use of VR to help with training approaches to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), in partnership…
Developing tools for early-stage cancer diagnosis
Inventors: Ulrich Keyser, Mohamed Alawami, Max Zhu, Kaikai Chen, Cambridge Nucleomics Mentor: TBC Cambridge Nucleomics is a new university spin-out company based on technologies developed at the Keyser Lab in the Cavendish Laboratory. Using a combination of nanopores and single-molecule barcoding, the system is able to detect and count single molecules of DNA or RNA…
Using wearable technology to improve the ergonomics and postural awareness
Inventors: Dr. Brandon Smith & Ms. Stasa Stumpa, Clinical Neuroscience and Surgeonomic Mentor: TBC Since the dawn of surgical practice as we know it today, innovations to improve patient outcomes have been rife - from new instruments and robotics, to intra operative visualisation, to sterility and patient-support equipment to ensure comfort and wellbeing during and…
