• Dr Lavanya Dalasari, MBA student

    Reflecting on an incredible journey with the Medical i-Teams at the University of Cambridge has been nothing short of amazing. From the very first day, being part of this team felt like joining a dynamic startup, all of us united by a common goal to bring real medical innovations closer to market.Our project focused on…

    23 March 2024
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  • 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…

    12 November 2023
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  • 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…

    12 November 2023
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    Rankin Shoot 28/03/23 For World Malaria Day. Rising Stars
  • 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…

    12 November 2023
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