2026-2027
Enstic – identifying insects by sound
Inventors: Freddie Sarathchandra & Lea Jung, enstic Website: https://enstic.com Insects matter to us in very different ways. Some spread disease, some pollinate our crops, and some are invasive species that threaten native wildlife. Yet monitoring is still slow and manual: traps are set, specimens are posted to a lab and an expert identifies them under…
MyMedGuide – improving access to medical guidelines
Inventor: Charlie Artingstoll MyMedGuide is a digitalised medical guidelines platform for healthcare workers in low-resource settings. Currently such guidelines are either only available in paper form, or can be difficult to find online. While many are based on the WHO guidelines, they are usually then adapted for the local country and the local setting. Originally…
PhytoMerge – transforming agriculture with a new crop-breeding technology
Inventor: Anoop Tripathi, Plant Sciences Agriculture faces a fundamental challenge. We need to produce more food while using fewer resources and adapting to increasingly unpredictable environmental conditions. This challenge is particularly severe in low and middle income countries, where millions of smallholder farmers depend on crops that are vulnerable to drought, heat and disease. The…
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)…
A new zero-waste recycling technology for Li-ion batteries
Inventors : Esther Gray, Dr Javier Rubio Garcia & Professor Manish Chhowalla, Materials Science & Metallurgy The inventors have developed a novel method for recycling spent Li-ion batteries, which is faster and less energy intensive than existing approaches. Currently spent batteries are shredded into a black powder which is rich in critical metals. This powder is…
Developing a solution for long-duration seasonal heat storage
Inventors : Luc Liedtke, Juan-Luis Pinón Ramírez, Collin Smith, Laura Torrente-Murciano The inventors have developed a novel approach to storing thermal energy. Based on a reversible chemical reaction combined with proprietary materials, the technology is being developed to integrate with heating systems to intermediate the fluctuations between renewable energy generation and useage on a weekly, monthly…
Transforming light wavelengths to increase agricultural and solar energy efficiency
Inventors : Dr Monica Saavedra & Dr Boris Breiner, Lambda agri The inventors have developed an active additive that converts UV light to red light. The converter molecule is very efficient at this energy conversion, and has also been designed to be non-toxic, bio-degradable, low-cost, and manufacturable at scale. The first commercial applications for this…
