Amanda Obidike

The project consists of involving disadvantaged populations in the design of smart drones with the aim of demystifying the tools of new technology in the eyes of everyone and encouraging the power of science. Also to encourage them to create impact around them. Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Citizen Science, Digitalisation, Education,…

haMSter offers patients an opportunity to report underrepresented symptoms in MS that would normally go unaddressed. It is a convenient tool to use for quality of life research.   Tags: Digital Health, Digitalisation, Med-Tech, Mobile Health, Science Communication.

The nominating institution Stanford on the project: Studying gliomas is revolutionizing our understanding of how these terrible tumors hijack neuronal circuits and, fueled by the brain’s own neural activity, grow and invade. By uncovering this dependence of brain cancers on normal brain signals, our work is having a major impact…

SMASHfestUK is an inclusive ‘hyerlocal’ science and arts festival for young people and families that was founded to engage underserved/under-represented audiences with STEAM. All activities – ranging from comedy and immersive theatre to interactive game and hands-on experiments – are predicated on an overarching semi-immersive story about an impending disaster…

The nominating institution SCHOTT on the breakthrough: SCHOTT is the first company to mass produce ultra thin alumino-silicate glass, as required for foldable mobile display covers. Thickness below 0.1 mm allows for bending radii below 2 mm, after a so-called chemical toughening process. The glass is produced directly in the…

Over the last year, Patrick Cramer and his team visualized how the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 replicates its RNA genome. Their work revealed the mechanism of the drug remdesivir and enables the development of new antivirals. Cramer is a world leader in the fields of gene transcription and structural biology. Over the…

Whilst conventional recycling as we know it – converting waste materials into new materials – brings many environmental benefits, it is still severely limited when it comes to more complex products such as electronic devices. Our increasing and insatiable dependence on these devices, however, makes it even more urgent to…

Piero Beraun is addressing the environmental and health concerns associated with synthetic inks in the textile industry by proposing an industrial-scale extraction of pigments from macroalgae. This environmentally friendly solution involves using seaweed as a sustainable resource for fabric dye, offering an alternative to the polluting synthetic inks currently prevalent…

Carsten Streb, FRSC, is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany. Carsten’s research vision is to overcome global challenges in energy conversion, energy storage and public health by developing technologically important multifunctional materials. His research group work at the interface between molecules, nanostructures and solid-state materials…

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