Breaking the Wall of Tropical Skin Diseases Elias Barbosa 2023 Emerging Talents Breaking the Wall of Tropical Skin Diseases Elias Barbosa is addressing neglected tropical diseases, affecting over a billion people and leaving chronic sequelae, by developing experimental models for leishmaniasis and Hansen’s disease using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The project aims to accelerate the development of regenerative therapies to address both the diseases and their chronic sequelae,… Watch Video Share
2023 Emerging Talents Breaking the Wall of Tropical Skin Diseases Elias Barbosa is addressing neglected tropical diseases, affecting over a billion people and leaving chronic sequelae, by developing experimental models for leishmaniasis and Hansen’s disease using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The project aims to accelerate the development of regenerative therapies to address both the diseases and their chronic sequelae,… Watch Video Share
Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Dilip Menon Dilip Menon 2021 Social Sciences & Humanities Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Dilip Menon Dilip Menon was talking about creating a paracolonial framework that goes beyond the nation state, and that looks at the ways in which humanity’s destiny is framed by shared heritages through oceanic connections. In a time of global warming, the rising waters, and vast human migrations, we need a politics… Watch Video Share
2021 Social Sciences & Humanities Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Dilip Menon Dilip Menon was talking about creating a paracolonial framework that goes beyond the nation state, and that looks at the ways in which humanity’s destiny is framed by shared heritages through oceanic connections. In a time of global warming, the rising waters, and vast human migrations, we need a politics… Watch Video Share
Affordable Renewable Energy: Breaking the Wall of Solar Wind Hybrid Nurudeen Issa 2022 2022 Winner 2022 Winner | Emerging Talents Emerging Talents Affordable Renewable Energy: Breaking the Wall of Solar Wind Hybrid Nurudeen Issa and his team are developing an innovative solar-wind hybrid for households and businesses that will offer renewable energy in an affordable way. Watch Video Share
2022 2022 Winner 2022 Winner | Emerging Talents Emerging Talents Affordable Renewable Energy: Breaking the Wall of Solar Wind Hybrid Nurudeen Issa and his team are developing an innovative solar-wind hybrid for households and businesses that will offer renewable energy in an affordable way. Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall of Aphasia Cemalcan Uslu 2023 Emerging Talents Breaking the Wall of Aphasia Cemalcan Uslu is tackling the challenges of Aphasia, a language disorder stemming from brain damage, with his innovative software concept, Speechia. This interdisciplinary project merges linguistics and medicine, offering a tailored 5-step approach to assist individuals with Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasia, enhancing sentence formation and comprehension through speech recognition, language… Watch Video Share
2023 Emerging Talents Breaking the Wall of Aphasia Cemalcan Uslu is tackling the challenges of Aphasia, a language disorder stemming from brain damage, with his innovative software concept, Speechia. This interdisciplinary project merges linguistics and medicine, offering a tailored 5-step approach to assist individuals with Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasia, enhancing sentence formation and comprehension through speech recognition, language… Watch Video Share
BREAKING THE WALL OF SEALING WOUNDS Science Breakthrough of the Year Science Start-Ups BREAKING THE WALL OF SEALING WOUNDS Presented by: Marius Rosenberg Adhesys Medical has developed a new technology which can seal internal and external wounds. We have developed the only known product capable of both functioning as a hemostat and as a sealant inside the body. To be used by surgeons, it seals wounds and stops bleeding… Watch Video Share
Science Breakthrough of the Year Science Start-Ups BREAKING THE WALL OF SEALING WOUNDS Presented by: Marius Rosenberg Adhesys Medical has developed a new technology which can seal internal and external wounds. We have developed the only known product capable of both functioning as a hemostat and as a sealant inside the body. To be used by surgeons, it seals wounds and stops bleeding… Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall to Next-Generation Protein Sequencing Glyphic Biotechnologies 2021 Global Call Winner Science Start-Ups Breaking the Wall to Next-Generation Protein Sequencing Nominated by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT Presented by: Joshua Yang Watch Video Share
2021 Global Call Winner Science Start-Ups Breaking the Wall to Next-Generation Protein Sequencing Nominated by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT Presented by: Joshua Yang Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall of Circular Plastics Economy Tomislav Stolar 2023 Emerging Talents Breaking the Wall of Circular Plastics Economy Tomislav Stolar is addressing the pervasive issue of plastic pollution and the limited recycling of single-use plastics by developing a sustainable technology for chemical recycling, which aims to achieve a circular plastics economy. This innovative approach, using an ancient grinding technique, not only contributes to environmental preservation but also aligns… Watch Video Share
2023 Emerging Talents Breaking the Wall of Circular Plastics Economy Tomislav Stolar is addressing the pervasive issue of plastic pollution and the limited recycling of single-use plastics by developing a sustainable technology for chemical recycling, which aims to achieve a circular plastics economy. This innovative approach, using an ancient grinding technique, not only contributes to environmental preservation but also aligns… Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall of Building with Molecules Stefan Tautz Engineering & Technology Breaking the Wall of Building with Molecules The nominating institution Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH on the breakthrough: Playing LEGO with molecules promises to be an appealing approach to facile fabrication of unusual nanostructures. Attractive quantum functionalities have been shown, but there is a problem: Molecules defy intuitive handling, their behaviour is hard to predict. To address this challenge,… Watch Video Share
Engineering & Technology Breaking the Wall of Building with Molecules The nominating institution Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH on the breakthrough: Playing LEGO with molecules promises to be an appealing approach to facile fabrication of unusual nanostructures. Attractive quantum functionalities have been shown, but there is a problem: Molecules defy intuitive handling, their behaviour is hard to predict. To address this challenge,… Watch Video Share
Breaking the Wall between Art and Research Sougwen Chung Art & Science Breaking the Wall between Art and Research Drawing Operations 1&2 and Omnia per Omnia trace an evolving process of making with robotic units and AI technologies. The evolution forms the basis of human and machine collaboration. By working with machines as collaborators, the drawing and painting artifacts exist as both works of art and research. Watch Video Share
Art & Science Breaking the Wall between Art and Research Drawing Operations 1&2 and Omnia per Omnia trace an evolving process of making with robotic units and AI technologies. The evolution forms the basis of human and machine collaboration. By working with machines as collaborators, the drawing and painting artifacts exist as both works of art and research. Watch Video Share
Self-Heating Plasmas Alex Zylstra, Andrea Kritcher 2022 2022 Winner 2022 Winner | Physical Sciences Global Call Winner Physical Sciences Self-Heating Plasmas Fusion is a nuclear reaction that combines two light nuclei, producing energy; fusion reactions power stars like our sun. Producing energy from fusion would provide a carbon-free, clean, safe, and abundant source of electricity. Net energy production from fusion requires that the reactions occur in a ‘plasma’ hotter than the… Watch Video Share
2022 2022 Winner 2022 Winner | Physical Sciences Global Call Winner Physical Sciences Self-Heating Plasmas Fusion is a nuclear reaction that combines two light nuclei, producing energy; fusion reactions power stars like our sun. Producing energy from fusion would provide a carbon-free, clean, safe, and abundant source of electricity. Net energy production from fusion requires that the reactions occur in a ‘plasma’ hotter than the… Watch Video Share