2010-2011
i-Team on Policy, Easter 2011, with the Centre for Science
By i-Teamer, Dave Bosworth Science can play a vital role in creating informed and useful policy, but often important research does not reach the attention of policy makers. Over the past three months, a group of early career researchers has been investigating the pathway to linking researchers with appropriate policy makers. The i-Team on policy…
Lindsay Moore
i-Teams was a highlight of my time at Cambridge! My teammates were amazing, and I learned so much about business and entrepreneurship. I felt like I was part of an exciting new project and contributing to the development of an important technology!
Cambridge Carbon Capture update – winner of the Shell Springboard
Cambridge Carbon Capture, a i-Teams project during Michaelmas 2010 has scooped £40,000 from the Shell Springboard programmefor its Idea to combat climate change. Michael Priestnall, the firm's founder and Chief Technologist of said: "CCC has spent the last year with Professor Fray and his team in the Department of Materials Science to prove the feasibility of…
Improving infant health in the developing world while breastfeeding
Contact: Stephen Gerrard, Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology & Arron Rodrigues, Engineering World Health Cambridge Other information: JustMilk Originally based on an idea from a conference at MIT where a team of students were challenged to reduce mother to child HIV transmission, Stephen, Arron and their team are working to develop nipple shields designed to deliver anti-retrovirals to…
Influencing government policy through scientific research
Contact: Dr. Christopher Tyler, Centre for Science and Policy Mentor: Nancy Bocken, Engineering Academic research which is relevant for informing government policy usually has a narrow set of obvious policy applications. On closer inspection much of this research would also have relevance to a wider range of policy areas. For example, research on ecosystems may be obviously applicable…
Investigating uses for a polymer “doorway” into living cells
Contact: Professor Nigel Slater, Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology Mentors: Dr Jason Mellad & Alex Hellawell, Innovia Professor Slater and his team have been working for the past 15 years on the problem of how to get delivery payloads into cells across living cell membranes. The problem is that most payloads are hydrophilic or highly charged…
Using a new basic technology to revolutionise multiple applications, from
Contact: Dr. Easan Sivaniah, Physics Mentor: Dr. Julian White, Skalene Dr. Sivaniah's team in the Cavendish have been working on developing new porous structures. Porous materials are widely used in many applications, from filters to catalysis to fuel cells to solar cells to many others. In most cases the reason for using a porous material…
Releasing perfumes and other vapours on demand
Contact: Dr. Jenny Tillotson, Institute of Biotechnology, Dept Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Cambridge & Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London Mentors: Rachel Jones, Instrata and Simon C R Lewis Before coming to Cambridge, Dr. Tillotson worked as a designer, pioneering ideas in wearable and responsive perfumes. Starting from a design perspective, she has now worked…
Novel Uses for a Portable, Daily Disposable, Neuromuscular Stimulation Device
Contact: Jerry Walker, St. Bartholomews Hospital, London and Dr Rachel Fallon, Sky Medical Technology Ltd Mentors: Marc Bax, Panchromos and Rob Moir, Innovia Technology The research team at St. Bartholomew's Hospital has developed a small, battery-powered self adhesive device [weighing 16g] that attaches to the back of a person's knee delivering current to a nerve situated just…