Annual Report 2000












welcome
introduction
students
potential
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technology
funding
friendships
culture
building
world role
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future
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 ...discovering new technology

DNA research

Professor Roland Wolf, Biomedical Research Centre, believes that many of the adverse side-effects of drugs, estimated to account for one in 15 hospital admissions, are predictable because it is now possible to determine each person’s unique genetic make-up. He has developed a DNA-based test to establish whether the single gene that controls our reaction to drugs is working effectively. The test enables companies to predict side-effects in new drugs and a version should soon be available to doctors.

Packaging Design

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is co-ordinating a £1.5 million project across Europe to develop a range of products to assist those with poor eyesight or weak hands to undertake everyday tasks in the home. The ‘Helping Hand’ device will be able to speak electronically in several languages, advising on the contents of a bottle before opening it.

Face Recognition Technology
Dr Stephen McKenna, Applied Computing, is working on face recognition technology using a computer system that can recognise a face in a crowd and track that person’s movements. The technology can be used in surveillance or adapted to create ‘smart rooms’ for monitoring elderly or disabled people and triggering an alarm if any abnormal behaviour is observed.

Wound Healing

Husband and wife team, Professor Seth Schor and Dr Ana Schor based at the Dental School were winners in the academic and medical category of the Unisys John Logie Baird Awards (for the best new ideas for commercial exploitation) for their work on ‘active wound dressings’ capable of reducing scarring and speeding up healing.

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