Medical
Apply for Medical i-Teams
Application deadline: Monday December 7th at 23:59 Teams notified: Tuesday December 15th Course dates: Monday evenings from January 18th, final presentations Thursday March 18th "Our team was like a small company, working together towards a common goal.” Interested in how new medical technologies are commercialised and made available to patients and clinicians? Looking for some…
Developing a new mRNA-based regenerative treatment for heart disease
Inventors: Dr Jin Seok Lee & Dr Catherine Wilson, Gurdon Institute Unlike other organs, the adult heart cannot heal itself because its cells lose the ability to multiply. When someone suffers a heart attack, up to 1 billion heart cells die. Instead of growing new muscle, the body repairs the damage with tough scar tissue. This weakens…
GraySpace – Improving the continuity of care for long-term conditions
Inventors: Leontina Koleva, Physiology, Jana Albader, Clinical Biochemistry & Maria Fernanda Torres, Epidemiology GraySpace aims to address the problem of continuity of care between medical appointments, aiming to improve patient outcomes and to increase patient retention. Healthcare today is linear: a patient leaves a consultation, and care pauses until they proactively return. There is no…
OssTrack – using ultrasound to diagnose osteoporosis
Inventors: Jessica Tang, Meghali Banerjee, Adanna Onukogu, Anita May John, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford & Imperial College, London Osteoporosis affects over 500 million people globally, causing fragility fractures that result in severe pain and disability. In adults, the diagnosis of osteoporosis requires a measurement of bone mineral density (BMD) with a Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA)…
Supporting families during paediatric intensive care treatment
Inventor : Dr Nazima Pathan, Paediatrics Dr Pathan is a clinical academic working in paediatric intensive care. She has developed a digital tool called MyPICUStory to act as mental health support for the parents and siblings of babies in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). When a child is admitted to intensive care, parents go…
Using wearable electronics to monitor and identify health conditions in
Inventor : Ruben Ruiz-Mateos Serrano, Electrical Engineering & Polytecks Polytecks is a newly-formed spin-out from the University of Cambridge, which has participated in the Maxwell Centre’s impulse programme, Innovate UK’s iCURE and SPARK 1.0. Based on work from the founder’s PhD research, Polytecks is focused on improving the measurements used to diagnose and monitor cardiac…
Measuring and improving pelvic floor health
Inventors: Professor Tamar Makin, Hristo Dimitov & Allie Williams, Neuroscience Pelvic floor damage can cause pelvic pain, back pain, incontinence and sexual dysfunction, and can affect both women and men. Typically, patients with pelvic floor issues are given exercises to carry out but are not regularly monitored. The inventors have developed a non-invasive method to…
Analysing the route to market for a new technology to
Inventor: Dr. Xiaoyi Chen, Chemistry The inventor has developed a new technique for stabilising drug formulations. This technique would allow drugs such as insulin and semaglutide to be transported and stored without needing refrigeration, which would increase the access to such drugs in countries without reliable refrigeration chains, and long-term should help reduce the cost…
Identifying target markets for detailed artificial anatomical models
Inventors: Dr. Mark Golab, Dr. Sam Massey & Dr. Senthooran Kathiravelupillai, Cambridge Surgical Models Cambridge Surgical Models (CSM) is an early-stage start-up based in Cambridge and founded by Cambridge University alumni. CSM is focused on producing the next generation of high-fidelity human anatomical models for use in surgical training and medical education. Their products aim to…