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RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER and REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
spinning to success
Treatments for Diabetes
Diabetica Ltd was established by the Diabetes Research Group as a joint
venture with a US based biotechnology company. The company will develop
and evaluate a range of potential new drug treatments for patients with
diabetes. Initially, the products to be tested will have been extracted
from a range of natural plant sources. Professor Peter Flatt, Dr Finbarr
O’Harte and Dr Neville McClenaghan have established a strong technology
base for the company which hopes to have its first product on the market
within two years.
Oscar for IT
Information technology spin-off company MineIT Software (known as Lumio)
was chosen as New Company of the Year 2001 by the Northern Ireland
Software Industry Federation. MineIT has developed award winning analytic
solutions that provide detailed analyses of customer behaviour. The
company’s Easyminer product was awarded the European Information Society’s
Grand Prize (Europe’s IT Oscar) earlier this year.
Medical technologies
The University established ST&D Limited to develop novel sensor
technologies for medical applications. This work is the result of research
within the Northern Ireland Bioengineering Centre, the Biomedical and
Environmental Sensor Technology Centre and the Northern Ireland Centre for
Advanced Materials.
Heartsine Technologies Ltd was established to build on the work of Professor John Anderson into new medical technologies. The company has a strategic link to a US-based medical technologies company and is already preparing its first product for clinical trial.
Remote control
Using remote control of network devices, Dr Anton Hutton has developed a
highly versatile, remotely- controlled internet camera. Good Friday
Robotics Limited has secured investment from the private sector and
although newly established, has already developed the first prototype
which has been fully tested and is currently developing the commercial
product.
Medical Informatics
PathCom Ltd is a successful spin-out company from the Faculty of
Informatics with close links to the Medical Informatics Group and was
established to take commercialise the Faculty’s research.
| The Management
Institute The Management Institute contributed to the University’s regional profile through specific tailor-made programmes for companies such as Du Pont and Hastings Hotels, and more broadly based certificated and non-certificated courses in management development and change management. The Institute has an important role to play in management education and training in the public sector through, for example, contracts with the Child Support Agency and the Northern Ireland Civil Service. |
unlocking creativity
In Art and Design staff have been working closely with the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure in the generation of the strategy document: ‘Unlocking Creativity’.
Staff have also been working with the Design Directorate on behalf of IRTU in the production of a significant strategy document ‘Design Futures’ which is intended to inform government policy on future innovation and creativity developments.
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