Cohort three
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Dr Francisco Malaret
Venture: Nanomox
PI: Prof. Jason Hallett
Nanomox develops sustainable and cost-effective tailored metal oxides (ranging from nano to macro) for widespread applications of today and tomorrow. Read his case study here.
Dr Emanga Alobwede
Venture: BIO-F Solutions
PI: Dr Patrik Jones
BIO-F tackles the lack of sustainable and efficient fertiliser options farmers are facing, by developing eco-friendly biofertilisers based on algae isolated from British farmers soils.
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Dr Yuan-Tsan Tseng
Venture: CardioGen Valve
PI: Dr Adrian Chester
CardioGen offers an intelligent bioresorbable polymer matrix platform that utilises the body's own regenerative power to transform cardiovascular replacement of heart valves.
Dr Bernard Hernandez
Venture: EPiC IMPOC
PI: Dr. Pantelis Georgiou
EPiC IMPOC is an intelligent clinical decision support system accessible at the point of care that helps health care professionals prescribe the most appropriate antibiotics.
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Dr Zhutao Shao
Venture: Multi-X
PI: Prof. Jianguo Lin
Multi-X provides cost-effective material testing solutions, enabling novel quantitative measurement of material multi-axial properties and performance under service conditions.
Dr Pranava Madhyastha
Venture: GroundedFacts
PI: Prof. Lucia Specia
GroundedFacts is a service that detects and verifies textual, visual and audio based content with novel deep multimodal machine learning algorithms for a scalable solution.
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Dr Sarah Rouse
Venture: London Biosensors
PI: Prof. Steve Matthews
Our platform exploits the properties of designed biosensors together with next generation sequencing methods to detect biomarkers, with applications across diagnostics, therapeutics and industrial processes.
Dr Shengxi Shao
Venture: Harmful Algae in Control
PI: Prof. A. William Rutherford
We propose to develop a floating photobioreactor system that could repress harmful algal blooms with domestic algae desirable to the food, nutraceutical or pharmaceutical industry.
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Dr Helena Topouzi
Venture: Axolis
PI: Dr Claire Higgins
Axolis is a protein incorporated hydrogel for promoting wound closure and scar reduction in skin wounds.
Dr Nicolas Moser
Venture: ProtonDx
PI: Dr Pantelis Georgiou
Handheld diagnostic platform for rapid detection of dengue at the point of care in low- and middle-income countries with real-time monitoring of epidemics.