2005-2006
Wireless acoustic sensors
Contacts: Dr Adrian Stevenson & Professor Chris Lowe, Institute of Biotechnology The platform technology, developed at the Institute of Biotechnology, is based on a wireless acoustic sensor for use in biomedicine as a diagnostic monitoring system, or as a real-time sensor in the food, beverage, fermentation, life sciences, environmental, water, military or security industries. It may…
Potential cure for TB: How to create a viable business
Contacts: Professor John Archer, Genetics Mentor: Julian Hickling, Working in Tandem More information: http://www.cambridge-mit.org/cgi-bin/default.pl?SSSID=532 Tuberculosis is widespread as a disease of developing countries and poor people within developed countries, killing at least 2 million people per year, with 8.8 million new cases in 2002. The main treatments for TB involve a complex 6-9 month course of up…
Creating value by combining a multitude of traffic information to
Contacts: Michael Simmons & Professor Peter Landshoff, Centre for Mathematical Sciences Mentor: Caren Weinberg More information: http://www.ntdf.org.uk Organisations in the UK collect data on travellers in a variety of different ways, but most do not have enough data to make accurate predictions. For example, although most of us know that the roads are busier when it rains,…
Piezo-electric nanotube devices for microfluidic applications – investigating possible uses
Contacts: Dr. Finlay Morrison & Professor Jim Scott, Earth Sciences Mentor: Iain Simpson, TEAM Consulting Most nanotechnologies are viewed as "solutions in search of a problem". However, the development of piezoelectric arrays of very small tube diameters has obvious application to systems in which high-speed delivery of very small (picolitre) droplets where monodisperse, uniform droplet size…
Potential cure for TB: How to create a viable business
Contacts: Professor John Archer, Genetics Tuberculosis is widespread as a disease of developing countries and poor people within developed countries, killing at least 2 million people per year, with 8.8 million new cases in 2002. The main treatments for TB involve a complex 6-9 month course of up to five antibiotics, which were developed from 1947 to…
Tracking movements of crowds – potential security applications
Contacts: PDr. Gabriel Brostow, Engineering Mentor: Caren Weinberg The Vision & Robotics Group at the Engineering Department has worked on a wide range of projects related to computer analysis of videos and photos. The crowds project, carried out by Dr. Gabriel Brostow has focused on analysing security camera footage of crowds of people, and includes aspects such…