Directors - University of Manchester

Luke Hakes

Chair

Luke Georghiou

Non-Executive Director

Jo Kelley

Non-Executive Director

Martin Schröder

Non-Executive Director

Simon Thorpe

Non-Executive Director

Stephen Dauncey

Non-Executive Director

Andrew Wilkinson

Chief Executive Officer

Jane Shelton

Finance, Legal & Portfolio Management Director

Some cool projects

Life SciencesMedtech

In the genes - Gene-cell therapies

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy can devastate a person’s life, resulting in mobility limitation and heart failure. Now, the latest in gene technology is being used to offer targeted therapies to patients in order to bring expertise to this vital area.

#musculardystrophy
#genetics
#disease

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.

#scamp
#machinevision
#pixels

Collection of MRA brain or Magnetic resonance angiography image ( MRA ) of cerebral artery in the brain for detect stroke disease.

Life SciencesMedtech

Protease positivity

Currently, the only licensed 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
#ischaemic

ComputingSoftware

Whirlwind development - TornadoVM

TornadoVM: A practical and efficient framework for accelerating managed programming languages on heterogeneous hardware accelerators

#tornadovm
programming
#software

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