Thermoset plastics

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 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.

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.

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.

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
The VEGA remotely operated vehicle (ROV) developed by The University of Manchester to access hard-to-reach spaces.

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

Hyper-realistic display images - Revised colour mapping

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.
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.
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.

Life SciencesMedtech

Targeted cancer therapy - ManTRa Diagnostics

ManTRa Diagnostics has developed tumour-site-specific gene expression signatures to assess hypoxia which has the potential to deliver major advances in personalised cancer medicine.

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.
A group of people with dementia playing musical instruments, assisted by a Music in Mind therapist.

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

Identifying Genetic Biomarkers

GeneGini enables Academic and Pharmaceutical Researchers to prognose, diagnose and sub-categorise more diseases with better accuracy and sensitivity.