Michaelmas 2021
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…
Using VR to reduce the perception of pain and stress
Inventors: Dr. Gita Khalili Moghaddam, Clinical Neurosciences Mentor: Dr. Alex Smeets Dr. Modhaddam, founder of GlycoVue and TumourVue, is collaborating with Partizan International Ltd and Vision3 to develop new solutions to the problem of stress and pain during medical procedures. The aim is to use virtual reality (VR) for children and adults to reduce the…
Investigating new markets and applications for the Chairless Chair concept
Inventor: Dr. Fumiya Iida, Cambridge Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab, Engineering Mentor: David Foster The research interests of the Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab lie at the intersection of robotics and biology. Through abstraction of the design principles of biological systems, Dr. Iida’s team have developed core competences in the design and control of dynamic mechatronic systems, bionic sensor…