Funding to boost UK’s most promising new technologies

Posted on 6 Oct 2016 by Jonny Williamson

The Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 has awarded ten of the UK’s most promising young doctoral engineers and scientists Industrial Fellowships worth £80,000 to help fund and bring their technologies to fruition.

The new technologies include research that could lead to a drug which could drastically improve chemotherapy treatments; research that could eradicate hospital superbugs, and methods to speed up the development of antibodies used to treat patient diseases. They also include a snake robot for on-wing inspections of jet engines, technology to recover fingerprints from metal…

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