A.I.ComputingHardware

Robotics for Everyone – Puzzlebot

Manchester Robotics have a mission to globalise access to learning and development tools for robotics. In doing so, they intend to close the £96bn/year STEM skills gap in the manufacturing workforce and democratise educational resources for society’s most disruptive technologies: robotics, automation and AI.

#robotics
#globalisation
#education
#learning

ComputingElectronicsSoftware

Pixel Perfect - SCAMP Vision Sensor

SCAMP is a low-power, high-speed machine vision device using cutting image sensors to execute a variety of vision algorithms.

#visionsensor
#machinevisiondevice
#visionalgorithms
#sensors

Life SciencesMedtech

Rapid Diagnosis for Parkinson’s - SebOMIX Ltd

A non-invasive test for Parkinson’s Disease potentially offering rapid, non-invasive diagnosis before the onset of symptoms.

#sebomix
#parkinsons
#testing

Software

The Future of Farming - Fotenix Ltd

Fotenix Ltd has developed a cutting-edge imaging system and analytical software to help growers and farmers transform their fields.

#farming
#imaging
#software

Advanced MaterialsEngineering and Manufacturing

Still Waters - Graphene Water Technologies Ltd

Graphene Water Technologies Ltd. (GWT) specialises in the development of advanced graphene/polymer composite water filtration membranes and systems capable of treating contaminated water faster and for longer than those currently available on the market.

#graphene
#cleanwater
#filtration
#filter

Life SciencesPharma

The Missing Link - Link Biologics

In its current state, the protein TSG-6 is unsuitable for use in many treatments, despite its pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory quality. However, new research has demonstrated the ability to unlock this potential.

#arthiritis
#antiinflamatory
#osteoarthritis
#musculoskeletal

Advanced MaterialsEngineering and Manufacturing

Grafine Ltd

Maximising the performance of elastomers using a range of 2D materials, including Grafine.

#grafine
#nanomateirals
#elastomers
Patient waiting in hospital, looking towards a light in the corridor

MedtechSoftware

Adept ADAPTations - ADAPT

Providing GPs and patients (who have battled with cancer, and won but now have other health problems as a result) with individualised information about diagnosis, treatment, possible late toxicities and how these can be recognised, mitigated and managed.

#ADAPT
#cancer
#treatment

Advanced MaterialsEngineering and Manufacturing

Invisibility Cloak - SmartIR Ltd

SmartIR’s innovative tiles have ability to control visible colour and infrared light creating limitless applications.

#smartir
#infrared
#invisible

Energy and EnvironmentEngineering and Manufacturing

NovaCrack – A Virtuous Circle

NovaCrack is a rapid depolymerisation process that transforms mixed plastic waste into high-value hydrocarbons which can be converted back to virgin polymers, thereby closing the loop for a truly circular economy.

#novacrack
#depolymerisation
#plastics
#recycling

Health and Biotech

Light Sight

A light receptor with frequency-dependent activation level.

#eyehealth
#lightreceptiveproteins

Chemistry and Physics

Boiling Stones

Zeolites, derived from the Greek words zeo (to boil) and lithos (stone), are aluminosilicate minerals that seemed to froth or boil when heated in a blowpipe in flame. Zeolites are used in many industries due internal pore structure. A novel method has been developed of making zeolites with a tailored porosity in a timely and energy efficient way that also improves its performance in catalysis.

#zeolites
#catalysis
#mesopores

Life SciencesPharma

Homeostatic Hope

A new compound targeting the protein Pumilio as an antiepileptic drug.

#protein
#pumilio
#antiepileptic
#pharma

Life SciencesSoftware

Vision Quest - Caspar's Castle

Testing the visual field of children is difficult, resulting in inaccurate and unreliable outcomes which can lead to sight loss and other conditions. The University of Manchester has hopes to change that with novel software which is quite the spectacle.

#childsightloss
#casparscastle
#visionsoftware
#optometry

Life SciencesPharma

Stop Bugging Me! – Antimicrobial Peptides

Addressing concerns regarding super-resistant diseases which even the strongest medicines cannot touch, this peptide-packed technology is a remedy for the post-antibiotic age.

#antimicrobial
#peptides
#antibiotic
#pharma

Life SciencesSocial Sciences

Song of Healing – Music in Mind

The Manchester Camerata, named as the UK’s most adventurous orchestra by The Times newspaper in 2018, along with The University of Manchester, have over the last 8 years developed a new therapeutic music-making system targeted at supporting people living with or impacted by dementia.

#musicinmind
#manchestercamerata
#dementia

Health and Biotech

Fixing Achilles

An innovative device designed to be delivered by keyhole surgery which specifically addresses the biology of a regenerating tendon to improve outcomes for patients.

#tendon
#tendonrepair
#biotech

Life SciencesMedtechSoftware

Breathe Easy - Clin-e-cal Ltd

Clin-e-cal is a spinout digital health company from The University of Manchester aiming to transform respiratory care.

#clin-e-cal
#respiratory
#asthma

A.I.ComputingEnergy and EnvironmentEngineering and ManufacturingHardware

Second Wind

AI-empowered system enabling wind farm operators to lower the excessive cost of maintaining their operational assets.

#windturbine
#AI
#windfarm
#offshore
#onshore

Life SciencesMedtech

Protease Positivity

Currently, the only licenced therapy for ischaemic stroke remains largely unsuitable for many due to patients being naturally resistant to the treatment. As a result, there remains an urgent need for an accurate alternative for this vital treatment.

#protease
#therapy
#stroke

ComputingEnergy and EnvironmentSoftware

Going Underground – VRGeoscience Ltd

Spin-out, VRGeoscience Ltd, develop 3D technology to better understand deep underground structures.

#software
#geology
#undergroundmapping