A blood test for bowel cancer that can help save thousands of lives, a spin-out company that uses sensor technology to monitor greenhouse gases, a mobile app that generates CAD files from images captured on a phone’s camera feed, and a cloud-based system for monitoring student academic performance are the creative innovations that have won this year’s DCU President’s Awards for Innovation sponsored by Fujitsu.
Presented by David Delaney, director of innovation at Fujitsu Ireland, and Prof Brian MacCraith, President of DCU, the Awards encourage and recognise innovative achievements by DCU students, researchers and staff.
Joint winners in the academic research category were the research team at DCU’s Biomedical Diagnostics Institute and DCU spin-out AmbiSense.
The Biomedical Diagnostics Institute team developed a bowel cancer screening test in collaboration with Randox Laboratories which could save thousands of lives by spotting the disease at the earliest possible opportunity. This significant breakthrough in the screening for bowel cancer could be available for widespread use within the next two years by the 2,500 people diagnosed with the disease each year; and
AmbiSense, created by Prof Dermot Diamond, uses sensor technology to monitor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. Its platforms are used in landfill management, coal mining safety and for monitoring fracking processes. To date, AmbiSense has raised €500,000 from Enterprise Ireland and private investors and has five employees.
In the student category Liam Sexton, a final year Biomedical Engineering student, was recognised for a mobile app capable of generating a computer aided design (CAD) drawing file of an object captured on a phone’s camera feed. The app uses reverse engineering to extract information from the physical object, using it to create a computer model. The technology significantly enhances product design processes by allowing a member of the design team quickly create electronic drawing files when away from the office that can then be sent to the desktop team of further modelling and analysis.
The administration & support staff award was won by David Molloy, an analyst programmer in DCU’s School of Electronic Engineering has developed GURU, a secure, cloud-based system for monitoring student academic performance – eliminating wasteful paper processes.
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