Lent 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)…
