• i-Team on Policy, Easter 2011, with the Centre for Science

    By i-Teamer, Dave Bosworth Science can play a vital role in creating informed and useful policy, but often important research does not reach the attention of policy makers. Over the past three months, a group of early career researchers has been investigating the pathway to linking researchers with appropriate policy makers. The i-Team on policy…

    21 July 2013
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  • Lindsay Moore

    i-Teams was a highlight of my time at Cambridge! My teammates were amazing, and I learned so much about business and entrepreneurship. I felt like I was part of an exciting new project and contributing to the development of an important technology!

    24 February 2023
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  • Improving infant health in the developing world while breastfeeding

    Contact: Stephen Gerrard, Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology & Arron Rodrigues, Engineering World Health Cambridge Other information: JustMilk Originally based on an idea from a conference at MIT where a team of students were challenged to reduce mother to child HIV transmission, Stephen, Arron and their team are working to develop nipple shields designed to deliver anti-retrovirals to…

    4 July 2013
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  • Influencing government policy through scientific research

    Contact: Dr. Christopher Tyler, Centre for Science and Policy Mentor: Nancy Bocken, Engineering Academic research which is relevant for informing government policy usually has a narrow set of obvious policy applications. On closer inspection much of this research would also have relevance to a wider range of policy areas. For example, research on ecosystems may be obviously applicable…

    4 July 2013
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  • Investigating uses for a polymer “doorway” into living cells

    Contact: Professor Nigel Slater, Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology Mentors: Dr Jason Mellad & Alex Hellawell, Innovia Professor Slater and his team have been working for the past 15 years on the problem of how to get delivery payloads into cells across living cell membranes. The problem is that most payloads are hydrophilic or highly charged…

    4 July 2013
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