IT for Intensive Care Patients
IT for Intensive Care Patients The world’s first prototype device to allow severely incapacitated intensive care patients to communicate with family, friends and hospital staff is being developed by Professor Ian Ricketts, Applied Computing, to alleviate the stress and isolation experienced by the inability to speak due to feeding tubes, breathing apparatus, etc.

Commercialisation of Research
With its strengths in life sciences - biotechnology, civil engineering, microelectronics and materials science - the University is well-placed to improve on its already impressive record of commercialisation. Currently the University has a live patent portfolio of 115 projects and has granted licences for the exploitation of a further 163.

Cancer Detection

Collaboration by scientists at Glasgow and St Andrews universities with Dundee University surgeons, Mr Iain Tait and Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri, has produced a fluorescence system for early detection of otherwise invisible cancerous tissue in the gullet. The revolutionary technology has already gone on trial and should soon be available commercially.