2013-2014
Building Collaborative Networks – finding the best market opportunities
Contact: Dr. Rafael Carazo Salas, Genetics Mentor: Simon Pulman-Jones The WEAVER software was first invented to meet the researchers' own needs as they reached the end of a collaborative research project across three countries. How could they ensure that their meeting attendees received the maximum benefit from being in the same place at the same…
Enhancing teacher professional development with advanced digital technology
Contacts: Dr Steven Watson & Dr. Phil Kirkman, Faculty of Education Mentor: Dr. Moira Sheehan, Villiers Park Educational Trust The team at the Faculty of Education are developing a range of advanced multimedia materials to help existing teachers improve their teaching, as well as to help train new teachers. The materials will include a range…
Capturing industrial CO2 emissions and adding value to large-scale mining
Contact: Michael Priestnall, Cambridge Carbon Capture & Dr Vasant Kumar, Materials Science Mentor: Wouter Meuleman, Illumina The inventors have been working jointly with researchers in Cambridge and Sheffield to develop a 2-stage chemical process that adds value to large-scale magnesium-containing mineral silicate rocks and metal-ore wastes through conversion and recovery of higher value materials. One high-volume, low-cost product of the process -…
Developing a new platform for protein biomarker diagnostics
Contacts: Dr. Aron Rachamim & Dr Sai Giridhar Shivareddy, Engineering & Orphidia Mentor: Dr. Karin Schmitt A team of researchers from the department of Engineering have developed and patented a new idea in medical diagnostics, which could revolutionise the time to market for new biomarker diagnostic tests. Currently new diagnostic tests are developed in the…
Delivering nutrients and medications via breastmilk – developing an appropriate
Contact: Rebekah Scheuerle & Stephen Gerrard, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, and JustMilk Mentor: Marc Bax The JustMilk Nipple Shield Delivery System (NSDS) is a device for dosing infants with nutrients and medications during breastfeeding. By supplementing breast milk with nutrients and medicines, the device has the potential to combat malnutrition, and prevent or treat conditions including…
Finding the best market for a self-cleaning anti-reflective coating for
Contact: Professor Ulli Steiner, Physics Mentor: Paul May The research team has been working on anti-reflective coatings for more than 10 years. Although such coatings are widely used already, they decided to investigate them from a physicist's perspective to try to design more optimal coatings which have good optical properties and are mechanically robust. Current…
Commercialising a point-of-care blood testing system
Contact: Dr Tanya Hutter, Department of Haematology Mentor: Karin Schmitt Using her background in optical sensors, Dr Hutter has developed a new type of blood sensor, based on microfluidic chips and optical measurement techniques. Blood tests to look at the number of red blood cells and assess if a patient is anaemic are performed regularly…
i-Teams Plus – a further investigation of a hydrogen generation
Contact: Enass Abo-Hamed & Dr. Roger Coulston, Chemistry Mentors: Dr. Julian White & John Hunter A previous i-Team in Easter 2013 investigated the uses for a new method of hydrogen-production, and concluded that the two best markets for the technology were those where hydrogen is used as a fuel for combustion, and that of hydrogen…
Video data analysis via object segmentation – labelling video content,
Contacts: Ignas Budvytis, Dr. Vijay Badrinarayanan, Prof. Roberto Cipolla, Department of Engineering, Cambridge Interactive Video Solutions Ltd. Mentor: Adrian Swinburne Website: http://www.cambridgeivs.com The research team, working in the Department of Engineering under the supervision of Professor Roberto Cipolla, have developed a new technique for segmenting videos that enables individual objects and their respective boundaries to be…