The i3HS spinout company launched in 2019 by SHS colleagues Tony Payton and Martin Fergie, has been recognised by Mills & Reeve’s as being one of the top 20 most innovative companies in the North West. Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Science, Dr Tony Payton and Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, Dr Read more…
A sustainable development pathway for our digital society requires new means to self-regulate the consumption of physical resources including energy. In a new video showcasing his project, Economic Planning and Optimized Selections (EPOS), Dr Evangelos Pournaras (School of Computing) outlines his research on collective learning, a novel human-centred artificial intelligence paradigm, and its applicability Read more…
Clinical oncologist Professor Ananya Choudhury is leading one of the world’s most innovative radiotherapy treatment machines here in Manchester, one of the first seven of its kind globally. Here she tells us how the MR-linac is transforming patient outcomes since it started treating patients in 2019. “I’m in what I Read more…
Innovation in advanced materials offers the disruptive potential to transform the way we build our future cities, as well as the transport and infrastructure systems that connect them. Alongside its health impact, the COVID-19 pandemic has upturned the global economy, with the International Monetary Fund estimating it could cost as Read more…
The University of Manchester and Finland’s Aalto University have entered into a strategic cooperation agreement to further health-AI research. Aalto University’s excellence in artificial intelligence (AI), combined with our University’s strengths in data science and AI combined with health systems, will accelerate vital research and development in data-driven healthcare and Read more…
Engineers from the University of Sheffield are developing the next generation of autonomy as part of a pioneering new spin out company. Based on eight years of research led by Professor James Marshall and Dr Alex Cope from the University’s Department of Computer Science, Opteran is pioneering lightweight, low cost Read more…
Iain Hagan and Wendy Trotter from the Cell Division group at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute have developed a new approach to synchronise the cell division cycle of an entire population of human cells in culture. Iain believes the approach – now published in Open Biology – will be a game changer for cell biologists. Read the full story here.
Scientists have made a breakthrough in their work to develop semi-autonomous colonoscopy, using a robot to guide a medical device into the body. The milestone brings closer the prospect of an intelligent robotic system being able to guide instruments to precise locations in the body to take biopsies or allow Read more…
Gene editing has been used to fix broken retinal cells in a laboratory setting. Researchers hope it will pave the way for a treatment for the most common form of inherited blindness. The discovery was made possible by a breakthrough in understanding the genetic mutations which cause retinitis pigmentosa. The Read more…