Ideas with Impact Partners Programme

Applications now open for Ideas with Impact Partners' Programme, where philanthropy accelerates the growth of the brightest ideas at the University of Manchester.

Advanced MaterialsEngineering and Manufacturing

Invisibility cloak - SmartIR Ltd

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

Health and Biotech

A vision of success - Complement Therapeutics Ltd

Taking on two devastating immune system diseases, AMD and GA, Complement Therapeutics Ltd is developing new strategies to enhance one of the most promising areas in patient care.

Advanced MaterialsEngineering and Manufacturing

High Performance Metal Organic Frameworks

High surface area materials with the potential for gas storage, separation and catalysis. The range of potential applications for metal organic frameworks is vast, covering areas such as cosmetics, medicine and clean tech.

Chemistry and Physics

Bringing light to NMR spectroscopy

In situ, illumination of liquid-state samples makes it possible for a wide range of light-dependent chemical and biological phenomena to be studied by one of the most powerful analytical techniques – nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

Health and BiotechLife SciencesPharma

TaBriX- Innovative solutions for anti-infective therapies

TaBriX is developing innovative solutions to create anti-infectives for the future.

Electricity

Modular power management systems for smart electrification: Cedyr Labs

Cedyr Labs is creating modular power systems for OEMs that make the smart electrification of products simple.

Life SciencesMedtech

The cellular level – eNAMPT stimulation

The University of Manchester spinout, Apini, have developed a new series of small molecule compounds, specifically designed to inhibit the pro-inflammatory activity of eNAMPT

Chemistry and PhysicsEngineering and Manufacturing

Novel transfer chute

A new design of transfer chute, with a low cost-to-benefit ratio, to solve a problem so intrinsic with chutes designed before it

Energy and EnvironmentHealth and BiotechLife Sciences

EvoPlant: A rapid transgene-free technology used to improve plant traits

EvoPlant has developed a targeted technique which has the potential to improve photosynthesis, drought tolerance and herbicide resistance.

Social Sciences

Helping older adults improve strength, balance and optimise healthy ageing

Based on scientific research from clinical trials, Keep on Keep up (KOKU) provides tailored exercises and evidence-based games which can be easily completed independently at home, by older adults, ensuring they improve their strength and balance.

Education and CultureSocial SciencesSociety

Song of healing – Music in Mind Ltd

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.

Life Sciences

Ravan Bio - Live longer and healthier

Ravan Bio is identifing and re-purposing combinations of existing drugs and nutraceuticals to treat age-related conditions by targeting senescent cells.

Energy and Environment

Quantifying recycled content in plastics and packaging – ReCon2

The use and disposal of synthetic polymers in packaging and other applications has become a critical environmental issue, and one that we must control as a society.

A.I.ElectronicsHardwareSoftware

Atomic Mechanics

Interactions brought to life on any surface... Atomic Mechanics sensors enable any surface to sense human-like touch interactions.

ComputingSoftware

Crystal clear - CrystalGrower

CrystalGrower is a tool to develop a greater understanding of how crystals grow at the nanoscale through simulation of crystal habit and surface topography that, in turn, helps predict and control functionality.

ComputingEngineering and ManufacturingSoftware

Silence is golden - compact attenuators for use in tight spaces

The University of Manchester have developed a novel approach to noise control, able to decimate decibels and provide unparalleled silence.

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.

Energy and EnvironmentEngineering and Manufacturing

A virtuous circle - NovaCrack

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.

Health and BiotechLife SciencesMedtech

Dysphagia treatment - Phagenesis

Invaluable treatment to transform the lives of patients who have difficulty swallowing.

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.

Health and BiotechLife SciencesPharma

Vaccination innovation – Novel virus-like particle platform

A novel virus-like particle platform which could transform vaccine antigen delivery and gene therapy.

Life SciencesMedtechSoftware

Dental development - Manchester Imaging Ltd

Manchester Imaging Ltd is a successful spinout from The University of Manchester using software solutions to capture cavities and train the next generation of dentists.

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.

ComputingSoftware

Whirlwind development - TornadoVM

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

ComputingElectronicsHardware

University robotics technologies

The University of Manchester are developing innovative robotic solutions to carry out inspections and maintenance underground, underwater, and in confined spaces.

ComputingSoftware

Enhancing the Visual Experience of AR & VR

With an upgrade on the industry-standard trichromatic colour space, The University of Manchester have revised colour mapping to improve image quality and transform the palette of visual image creation.

Life SciencesPharma

Spotting cell senescence - SenTraGor

SenTraGor is an innovative, easy-to-use reagent for the reliable detection of Senescence in cells.

Engineering and Manufacturing

Creating hard, tough and degradable polyester resins - BisDox

Thermosets, or cross-linked polymers, are a class of materials with a permanent molecular architecture. One of the benefits of thermosets is that they can add additional stability, enhanced strengths, improved elasticity, and reduced creep compared to their linear counterparts. These properties are essential for a wide range of applications in insulators, adhesives, pipes, construction and transportation.

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.

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.