Articles for January 2011
Our articles for January 2011 are shown below.
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Sir Ranulph Fiennes: Making the dream come true
Legendary explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes is the speaker for the first Enterprise Tuesday talk of Lent Term, which takes place at the Department of Engineering this afternoon (18 January).
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Astex announces milestone in oncology collaboration
Cambridge Enterprise portfolio company Astex Therapeutics, the UK-based biotechnology company developing targeted therapies for oncology and virology, has received a milestone payment from its collaboration with Novartis.
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The positive impact of academic innovations on quality of life
A device that allows the blind to see via electrical pulses applied to the tongue, a collagen scaffold to treat damaged joints, a new vaccine to prevent shingles, an artificial lung that provides patients with both mobility and comfort during treatment, a program that vastly improves literacy among middle and high-school age students, a device that transforms wheelchairs into all-terrain vehicles, a vaccine to prevent HPV.
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Cambridge Enterprise announces 2010 results
Income generated from the University of Cambridge’s commercialisation activities continued to rise in 2010, as did the number of intellectual property, consultancy and equity agreements signed on behalf of the University and its researchers.
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Sphere Fluidics
This year, the Discovery Fund made an investment in a new University spin-out which is developing droplets that serve as ‘miniature test tubes’.
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Making drug delivery safer
More than 10,000 drug administration errors involving injectable medicines are reported every year in the UK alone, with thousands more likely going unreported. Such errors can result in harm to the patient and, in some cases, even death. Drug administration errors can lead to increased costs for health care providers from extra bed days, administration costs and even potential litigation.
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Learning the lingo
Today, there are over four times as many people learning English than there are native speakers. Close to 40% of those learners are using some form of software to increase their understanding of the English language.
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Even better than the real thing
Augmented reality brings together real and virtual worlds. Simon Taylor and Connell Gauld, two graduate students in the Department of Engineering, along with Senior Lecturer Dr Tom Drummond, have developed an augmented reality application which could change the way we use smartphones.
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Retirement and risk
As more and more pension schemes are closed or scaled back, individuals are being asked to take an increasingly active role in their financial planning for retirement.The public at large has a relatively low level of financial literacy, and there is a constantly widening gulf between this and the knowledge required to accurately assess the complicated credit, insurance and investment products which are available in ever-increasing numbers.