2021-2022
Exploring the use of VR systems in helping autistic children
Inventor: Bang Ming Yong, Institute for Manufacturing Mentor: TBC The inventor has been working with Virtual Reality (VR) systems over the past 4 years, investigating their use in a variety of scenarios. More recently he has been working on the use of VR to help with training approaches to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), in partnership…
Developing tools for early-stage cancer diagnosis
Inventors: Ulrich Keyser, Mohamed Alawami, Max Zhu, Kaikai Chen, Cambridge Nucleomics Mentor: TBC Cambridge Nucleomics is a new university spin-out company based on technologies developed at the Keyser Lab in the Cavendish Laboratory. Using a combination of nanopores and single-molecule barcoding, the system is able to detect and count single molecules of DNA or RNA…
Using wearable technology to improve the ergonomics and postural awareness
Inventors: Dr. Brandon Smith & Ms. Stasa Stumpa, Clinical Neuroscience and Surgeonomic Mentor: TBC Since the dawn of surgical practice as we know it today, innovations to improve patient outcomes have been rife - from new instruments and robotics, to intra operative visualisation, to sterility and patient-support equipment to ensure comfort and wellbeing during and…
Identifying the best routes to market for a simulation tool
Inventors: Dr. Simon Fairclough & Professor Rachel Oliver, Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride Mentor: TBC Multi-layer semiconductor devices are the heart of the modern electronics industry and are constantly being developed to produce ever more energy efficient and smaller devices. The inventors are world-leading experts on Gallium Nitride (GaN), and have already created a spin-out…
Making autonomous systems safer and more trustworthy using uncertainty-tracking computing
Inventor: Dr. Phillip Stanley-Marbell, Electrical Engineering & Signaloid Mentor: TBC Autonomous systems such as self-driving cars, drones and robots represent a rapidly-growing market that will touch every aspect of human life. To be widely deployed, they must be trusted by humans. Today, they are not: 70% of U.S. drivers report they would be afraid to…
Exploring the market need for easily-manufactured vibration-dampening polymers
Inventors: Dr. Eugene Terentjev & Mohand Saed, Physics & Cambridge Smart Plastics Mentor: Bob Pettigrew The research team are experts in creating smart polymeric materials with unusual properties, and have set up a startup company called ‘Cambridge Smart Plastics’ which has successfully received funding from Innovate UK. The i-Team will be focusing their research on…
Detecting water contaminants with touchscreen devices in low and middle
Inventors: Professor Lisa Hall (Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology) Dr. Ronan Daly, Sebastian Horstmann (Department of Engineering) Mentor: Dr. Clara Aranda-Jan More information Touchscreen technology is ubiquitous in our everyday lives : the screen on a typical smartphone is covered in a grid of electrodes, and when a finger touches the screen the local…
Assessing and enhancing the quality of chlorinated water in Africa
Inventor: Francesca O’Hanlon & Rebecca Donaldson, Blue Tap Mentor: Dr. Ian Willis Blue Tap is a social enterprise founded by Cambridge University students which aims to deliver safe drinking water to families all over the world. Their initial technology provides chlorine dosing technology designed to be used in decentralised water systems. Chlorine is one of…
Improving the long-term monitoring of neurosurgical patients in low resource
Inventors: Brandon Smith, Angelos Kolias & Professor Peter Hutchinson, Clinical Nuerosciences Mentor: Dr. Bill Matthews In global healthcare settings, there is a lack of formalised long-term outcome monitoring, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where loss to follow-up rates following hospital discharge remain high. Where solutions have been implemented, they are often exclusive to specific…