Members: Caius Fritz, Osku Häkälä
Aarre seeks to make travel more interesting and sustainable by providing people with easier ways of connecting with unforgettable experiences located a stone's throw away from them. The app offers service providers and communities in less traditional Finnish destinations the opportunity to present their hidden-gems to a broader audience, and encourages users to think more about travelling local, not global.
Members: Kimmo Nevanlinna, Sami Kojola
AdaPrice sees the very old problem of food waste in the retail sector, and seeks to solve this by applying new digital solutions to solve it. By introducing dynamic pricing solutions utilising cloud computing and big data to the retail sector, and by leveraging new technologies such as digital price tags and next generation barcodes that are currently being rolled out, the team hopes to reduce food waste linked to spoilage.
Members: Heikki Suhonen
AgriBot is born from the realisation that current agricultural practices are unsustainable due to the manpower required to farm commercially, and it meaning that farming is done at field-scale. By introducing AI powered robotics, AgriBot hopes to bring farming down to the plant-level, with drones treating each plant as an individual. With the possibility for more individualised attention, farmers can save money and the environment by reducing their pesticide and fertiliser usage through more restrained yet focused applications, as well as increase biodiversity in the field by allowing for both plant cohabitation and the planting of larger, more nutritious varieties traditionally avoided by the prevailing monoculture ethos.
Members: Kwabena Mensah Atobra, Benjamin Amoh
Madiba sees the unreliable centralised power grids and underdeveloped renewable energy markets of Sub-Saharan Africa as an opportunity to bring increased standards of living to nearly a continent's worth of people in an environmentally friendly manner. With its platform, Madiba seeks to bring African consumers closer to renewable energy production & storage solution producers and microfinance service providers, enabling continued yet sustainable electrification in these growing markets.
Members: Gaëlle Thomas, Camilla Gallo Araya
Farming is becoming more challenging by the year with increasing regulation, a growing number of beneficial and mandatory certifications, and looming climate-related challenges. Having heard the concerns of overwhelmed farmers, Binki wants to help by providing a way to receive no-stress compliance assistance, easily understandable environmental impact tracking, vital information on climate matters, and more.
Members: Carlos de la Torre, Konstantinos Kousouris
Entering student life often brings many challenges to young people, with being thrown into the deep end of financial independence being one of the most common ones. Working with AI-powered personalised advice based on users' fiscal data, Blink seeks to provide an engaging gamified service to students tailor-made for them to obtain financial peace of mind. With individualised spending limits, reward systems, e-banking services and plans for much more, Blink promises students the ability to stay on top of their budget and new ways of guaranteeing significant extra savings when they graduate.
Members: Isa Ahjokannas
We all wish we'd had more career advice when we were younger, or that the information we'd gotten had been more relevant and accessible to us. Jobble aims to solve this problem by building a great online educational platform featuring inspiring, easily digestible information for career building that is up to date and pertinent to its student audiences' goals and interests.
Members: Dmitry Chekhunov, Dmitriy Novikov
The energy sector remains stodgy and inefficient, and Enreport wants to change that by building AI-powered algorithmic energy management systems useful to all of the industry's stakeholder groups. By providing data-driven recommendation systems, price & usage predictions, energy trading systems, and more to producers, retailers, consumers, and analysts the team hopes to make the world of energy more agile and save its users money.
Members: Sunil Singh, Shweta Singh
Carbon footprint management is an important part of the global green transition, and iLuEarth is working to make it easier to do so effectively. By providing automated carbon accounting, effective climate action insights, and satellite based offset project monitoring, iLuEarth wants their platform to be a premiere choice for businesses to measure, reduce, and offset their carbon footprint.
Members: Waqas Pervaiz
International expansion is a key driver for growth for any business, yet market entry can be hard to plan and harder still to execute. Optim seeks to facilitate this by providing businesses with a platform where they can find valuable information on which markets to select and new partners in the ones they choose to expand to.
Members: Esa-Pekka Kumpula
OrientLock is a University of Helsinki research-based start-up working on innovative biotech solutions for biosensor priming.
Members: Luciano Rod
Creating online learning experiences can be a cumbersome and challenging process with multiple elements having to be considered and handled simultaneously, and institutions having to invest and integrate a variety of tools and platforms to create the optimal educational product. Quanticum Digital seeks to simplify this process by providing a central partner that handles the technology, support, and development of online learning experiences utilising the latest in technology and methods.
Members: Angelina Lesnikova, Valery Kremnev
Research publishing and experiment data sharing is, in its present form, cumbersome. Data, once published lacks accessibility for both people and AI, and the threshold for publication is high, limiting the collaborative potential of science. Sci2Sci Publishing is creating a new kind of publishing platform allowing for research data to be analysed and re-analysed by other researchers to reproduce experiments and build on published findings, while also encouraging more small-scale publishing and greater scale collaboration through the publication and citing of individual experiments and more responsive and customisable viewing tools.
Members: Marianne Koppatz, Jyrki Ollikainen
Being able to trace the provenance of raw ingredients is becoming more prevalent in many industries, including fashion. SilvaTrace is working to build similar levels of transparency and traceability to lumber production to track the wood used in products at every step of its journey with the use of blockchain technology, helping consumers easily choose ethically certified and produced wood products and giving forest owners more ways of getting their responsible forest management recognised.
Members: Jori Karvonen, Julius Lubys
Consumer electronics are an essential part of modern life, but investing in a new device can be daunting due to not being able to test it in real world conditions and the overall costs being high. Switchooo aims to solve this issue by letting consumers use the latest technology with a subscription-based model, letting people try devices for a set duration and then decide if they want to keep using the device, buy it, or switch to a new one. No more buyers remorse, no more old devices lying at the bottom of a drawer!
Members: Natasha de Koker, Frederick Kyle
Access to Justice has been identified by the United Nations as a key global issue in its Sustainable Development Goals, and it is a key part of UNSDG 16, “Peace, Justice, And Strong Institutions”. As it stands, equal access to a Court of Law is limited. The Justice 4.0 team seeks to remedy this situation by creating a user-friendly digital court that is always accessible from anywhere in the world with both smart devices and strategically placed “Justice Pods”.
Members: Chiara Facciotto, Giuliano Didio, Rita Turpin, Lea Urpa, Stephany Mazon
Much of the work done by researchers across the world has the potential for wide-ranging, if not global impact. Yet oftentimes the findings and outputs generated rarely leave the confines of journals and conferences, with their full potential remaining unexplored. Why? Put simply, researchers in academia, companies, and public institutions have, generally through no fault of their own, a lack of both communication skills and appreciation of the benefits of communicating the results of their work to the broader world. The team at ClariSci, itself made up of current and former researchers, wishes to bring clarity to the world of research by training the professionals conducting it to better communicate their work and its results to the people who need that information in an accessible way. By broadening the reach of research, the team hopes to increase the beneficial impact it can have on society.
Members: Laura Ruuskanen
Unemployment is a difficult situation for anyone. Being unemployed can have adverse effects on your physical, mental, and social wellbeing, in addition to putting additional stress on those closest to you. The situation is especially arduous for immigrants and refugees who find themselves unemployed in an unfamiliar environment. Yet despite their willingness to work, they often face a harder time finding employment due to factors like difficulties with the local language & work culture, hesitancy from employers, and different levels of formal education. The solution being proposed is a service which supports these jobseekers by facilitating the development of competencies and assisting them in finding & keeping a job, as well as supporting employers when onboarding their new hires. The hope is to reduce long-term unemployment and facilitate the integration of immigrants into the workforce and society at large.
Members: Noha M. Abdelmonem
Engaging with students can be difficult for several reasons, one of them being that students find the materials they’re using difficult and boring. This drives students away from studying and leads to worse academic performance. Ahaa wants to develop an app-based education platform where materials are made more enjoyable, relatable, and easy to understand. The aim is to first develop the product for high-school students before eventually moving on to cover study materials for other levels.
Members: Petri Wilska
Employee well-being remains an under-addressed issue in many organisations due to a lack of access to adequate means and tools to do so in an effective and measurable manner among HR professionals and employers. This can lead to employees being prematurely forced into retirement due to potentially avoidable both mental and physical health issues born from occupational conditions, significantly lowering quality of life for those affected while adding undue strain on the pension system. Ympakti wants to help the well-being ecosystem by creating a centralised platform facilitating the creation of and access to tools to measure well-being and follow-up on results.
Members: Dmitry Mizulin
A problem among large white-collar organisations is reduced physical and mental well-being born from mentally taxing, largely sedentary work. This drop in overall health can lead to burnouts and employees quitting, which in turn leads to significant resources being dedicated to hiring & training replacements. Omnisport wants to offer companies an easy solution which provides unlimited company-wide benefits at selected sports & wellness facilities, helping address the well-being issues. In addition, by combining all their sports & wellness benefits to a pre-determined set of partners through Omnisport, organisations can improve mental & social well-being by facilitating the creation of smaller communities among their employees centred around common interests, as those practicing a particular type of sport would start attending the same facility and potentially bond together.
Members: Monika Kis
Managing life and combatting stress & anxiety is a growing problem for many, adversely affecting people’s mental health and productivity. And when a person is struggling with these issues, the effects often reverberate to those around them. Teaching Life wants to help individuals be better equipped to deal with these issues by providing easily accessible life management tools through various workshops initially offered as work-benefits at companies, but eventually to a wider audience though a host of different channels. By utilising neuroscience and positive psychology approaches, the workshops will help reduce stress and increase well-being holistically, leading to people becoming more effective in their professional and daily lives.
Members: Anna Talasniemi, Katja Ojala
For Finns, the sauna is a ubiquitous object of national pride, with one sauna for roughly every 2 Finns. Indeed, sauna culture in Finland is so important that UNESCO has recognised it as part of humanity’s cultural heritage. Yet as it stands, the full potential of the Finnish sauna remains untapped, with issues of accessibility, equity, and ecological sustainability still holding it back. Seurasauna 2.0 wants to help the sauna get ever closer to reaching its full potential by addressing sauna accessibility and equality matters affecting the disabled, the gender diverse, and groups who are poorly served by the current reality of the sauna. By offering consulting services on sauna accessibility and equality to public saunas, sauna pal (saunakaveri) services, and more, the team hopes that the sauna-going public will join them in making the sauna a more inclusive place for all.
Members: Diógenes Díaz Osorio
Despite being highly trained and educated, immigrants often face discrimination when trying to enter the professional market, with employers having misconceptions regarding these capable professionals’ skills, talent, and capacity to integrate into their companies. This leads to the perpetuation of socioeconomic inequalities and the prevalence of mental health issues among this group. Data-Games wishes to address this issue for marketing professionals of immigrant backgrounds by organising skill-based competitions where participants can prove their expertise in the field. By inviting companies to follow these competitions, Data-Games believes that it can help break the misconceptions these companies may have and help make its participants seem like more attractive talent.
Members: Marcus Bainbridge, Stinne Vognæs
International students struggle to find work in Finland. Why is this a problem? International students are at an increased risk of an extended employment search (i.e. more time in unemployment) or taking a job where they are in underemployment. At the same time, Finnish society loses out on opportunities for cultural and knowledge diversification, as well as the international graduates' economic potential. The team’s solution is a centralised information resource of the best job search information that international graduates have learned during their job searches combined with a community of current and former international students in Finland who can support each other in building careers here. By providing an easily accessible information resource and community where international students can easily find everything they need to learn how to build a career in Finland from the people who know the most about the subject, the solution reduces barriers to this information and risks of knowledge loss, allowing international students to support each other in their job search, and helping to builds a more realistic and positive narrative around this topic.
Members: Christal Spel, Everest Obatitor
Immigrant youths experience a higher drop-out rate from education and lower admission to STEM, in addition to experiencing mental health struggles and being demotivated in their educational lives. Support in these matters from schools and others has been inadequate, with more emphasis being put on lowering aspirations and powering on through with teaching despite the students’ challenges. This perpetuates a reality of racially and ethnically based socioeconomic exclusion and apathy among those affected without properly addressing the discriminatory and demotivating learning environment they face. The solution cannot be a one size fits all approach, and rather be one based on a community for youths where, in addition to the sense of belonging peer support can bring, individuals can benefit from one-on-one mentoring, support, guidance, and inspiration. By having these interactions, youths can be exposed to global opportunities, have their sense of identity strengthened, and have an increased sense of belonging, all contributing to increased motivation and more varied professional dreams and desires. And while the problem is largely structural, the experiences that this solution provides will be constructive for those involved, empowering them to see themselves as changemakers who can make a better environment for themselves and their peers.
Members: Minna Mustapää
Entrepreneurial communities help their members succeed by sharing information and peer support among each other in a mutually understood language, while also attracting new members by encouraging others to engage in similar activities. The Conscious Entrepreneur Community is a burgeoning inclusive multicultural community primarily for international female entrepreneurs, although it is open to all. The community helps foster well-being among its members while providing opportunities to grow their business through collaboration and the sharing of resources. It is currently trying to grow to have a dedicated community space for showcases and workshops while providing a platform for improved digital communication and resource sharing while aiming to develop courses and training materials on conscious business practices. By taking part in SÄRÖ/FRACTURE, the CEC is trying to facilitate this evolution to the next level.
Members: Opeyemi Olatoye, Meredith Sanna
As global populations shift towards dense urban centres, existing infrastructures struggle to cope with the pressures caused by increased density, magnifying the impact of climate change. The result is a drop in quality of life among those living in these communities as critical systems buckle and fail in the face of climate events of growing severity. SISU's solution aims to develop a platform to certify resilient carbon neutral communities, providing an incentive to less urbanised cities to rise up to the challenge. How? As these communities, which are already in a better position to meet resilience and carbon neutrality goals due to being under less pressure than their more dense & urbanised counterparts, work to become certified, they'll become hubs of low-carbon sustainable development, attracting investment and talent interested in furthering these goals. And once these communities are certified, they'll attract new residents who are looking for the higher quality of life associated with certification. This, in turn, will alleviate the pressure in struggling dense urban zones and, it is hoped, lead to a lowering of greenhouse gas emissions across the board.
Members: Anna-Leena Hakuli, Riikka Olli
In a perfect world, people would only buy the amount of clothes that they have the time to use, and the will to take care of. They would invest in more sustainable choices; quality clothes they’d love using year after year, clothes that they’d value so much they’d want to repair them, buying second hand whenever possible & reselling when they no longer use a piece. And for those occasions that they’d need something special? They’d rent. “Style uncoded” wants to offer a slow fashion platform for peer-to-peer swapping & renting of clothes as an alternative to buying clothes. They would save users’ time & money, as well as the environment by offering a “one stop shop” for those consumers interested in buying from sustainable brands and second-hand stores, while also connecting them with services that allow the repair and refurbishing of clothes they already own.
Member: Anni Lyytikäinen
Children’s sports equipment is a headache for many parents. Buying new equipment is expensive, and the market for used gear is unreliable. And once the gear has been bought, the child will either outgrow it within a season, or quit the sport after just a few times. This leaves families stuck with equipment they don’t know what to do with. Instead of having the equipment take up space in storage, the team’s solution wants to make sure that the gear quickly finds a home with another family. Their online store would receive the gear, inspect it, and list it for sale using standardized pricing & quality ratings, reducing the need for new equipment. The sustainable, hassle-free system will give peace of mind for parents buying and convenience to those selling, guaranteeing that everyone gets a fair deal – including the environment.
Members: Fernando Guerrero, Fernando Urbano
Recent geopolitical events have taught us that our global food supply chain is extremely vulnerable to a litany of shocks and highlighted the need for food security and local production. Yet often we hear that humanity no longer has the possibility to live off local food supplies: to do so would require unsustainable, high-tech solutions. Or be inefficient. Or rely too heavily on fertilisers. The team disagrees, proposing a solution based on the millenary technique of aquaponics, where waste from an aquaculture system is recirculated through a hydroponic setup, and the aquaculture system is fed with insect larvae grown from in waste from the hydroponic system. This circular system mimics nature’s circular approach and could produce sustainable fish and vegetables at a hyperlocal scale.
Member: Karri Lehtonen
Consumers have little reliable and objective data available on the quality or impact of the products they buy, making responsible shopping very difficult. The team hopes to create a solution which would provide consumers with data on the quality of the products they are buying, such as how many uses a product will last for on average, as well as telling them what the overall impact of creating & using the product will be. This would help consumers better understand the price/use and impact/use ratio of products, allowing them to save money and make more informed purchasing decisions.
Members: Joanne Lin, Yiannis Alexopoulos
Kiklos’ mission is to enable parents to have more time with their loved ones and less impact on the planet. Through a subscription-based rental platform, Kiklos provides parents with easy access to a set of high-quality, essential childcare products that they need for the first 3 years of their children’s lives. Kiklos offers a comprehensive solution for parents from day 1 to day 0. Under one subscription fee, parents can enjoy not only easy access to the products but also the services around the products, e.g. logistics, assembly, maintenance, and take-back. Kiklos aims to empower parents to lead a sustainable lifestyle which increases the well-being of both parents and their children while contributing to a circular future for all.
Members: Kim-Niklas Antin, Artemis Kloni, Sofia Delgado
The loudspeaker industry is still a deeply unsustainable linear economy. Old loudspeakers are thrown away, even though the magnets inside contain high quantities of critical raw materials called rare-earth elements (REE). Magnets are critical for many green technologies, such as EV’s and windmills, yet the EU imports 98% of its magnets from one supplier, and less than 1% of magnets are recycled. The Circular Sound project aims to keep these critical materials in the economy by means of remanufacturing old loudspeakers into new ones, reducing the need for mining for REE’s and the geopolitical risks associated with it to create new magnets, while simultaneously creating new jobs & resilient supply chains. Although the project focuses on just one specific industry, its impact is quick, long-term and low risk.
Member: Saana Siivola
Currently, baby products in the home textiles sector are terribly unsustainable, suffering from a lack of transparency in production, and being designed with a linear, not circular, use model in mind. This leaves parents wanting high-quality baby products produced in a responsible, transparent manner in accordance with circular principles with little to no choices available to them. Muruuu seeks to address this need, offering parents both high quality and sustainability in the same package, making the choice to buy environmentally and socially responsible products easy while avoiding the consideration of unpleasant trade-offs associated with current solutions.
Members: Nino Chkhartishvili, Samira Mokhtari, Rafeul Hasan, Miri Jung
Inefficient natural resource use is one of the biggest challenges facing the world today, with too many products being bought new when perfectly good second-hand options exist. Yet many consumers who would be open to buying second-hand fail to do so due to the difficulty of finding the products they’re looking for quickly and efficiently. Greenfo’s online platform intends to gather all second-hand stores, eco-services, and associated events in one easy to browse place, helping consumers make sustainable decisions in everyday life without wasting time. To motivate its users, Greenfo intends to include a social credit points system where consumers would earn points for each eco-friendly decision they make. By facilitating the increase in second-hand purchases of clothes, technology, and furniture, Greenfo will seeks to be a part of the transition to a circular, environmentally sustainable future where fewer natural resources are needed.
Member: Miri Jung
When making coffee, only 0.2% of the ground beans are used in the extraction of coffee, with the rest being discarded as waste. Yet these grounds are high in calories, free from impurities, and have a unique flavour, making them a great material for upcycling in a number of ways. Coffee Ground hopes to create a coffee recycling platform where people of all ages can take their dried coffee grounds with them and, for a fee, learn with experts how they could be turned into air fresheners, scrubs, compost, and more. The goal is to create a community around coffee recycling where those taking part connect with each other, share information on new ways of recycling coffee to educate and inspire people of all ages to think about recycling as a fun and joyful activity.
Member: Joona Myllärniemi
Repairing items is a cornerstone of the circular economy, yet places to do so are in short supply. Planned to be situated in an upcoming circular mall, the team hopes to create a repair point where most consumer items may be repaired. The repair point would not only be a place to ensure that users can keep using their items instead of buying new ones, but also act as a workspace for students in vocational schools, giving them a place to plug into the circular economy.
Member: Yue Pan
While sustainability permeating all elements of society at increasing rates is critical to combatting current global environmental and societal crises, much work remains to be done in the field. Applying expertise in the field, the team seeks to create a sustainability consultancy to bring more sustainability education to the public while also advising on policy to ensure that future policies are shaped in a way that maximizes their sustainability impact.
Member: Samira Nazir
Food waste management systems currently still leave much to be desired in terms of their sustainability. By utilising circular economy know-how, the team hopes to help identify gaps in existing systems and develop ideas and methodologies which enhance the industry’s sustainability by addressing those gaps. By increasing the degree to which the food waste management sector is plugged in to the circular economy, it’s hoped new ways of integrating food waste as raw ingredients for a multitude of applications will be developed.
Member: Polina Vishnia
Early-stage pioneering sustainable solutions are often faced with an uphill battle to get sales. At the same time, companies with sustainable values wishing to reward their employees often have difficulties finding gifts that match with those values. The team’s solution is an online marketplace that allows those offering eco-friendly gifts to sell them on a unified platform directly to companies looking for these kinds of products to give to their employees, thus supporting both the pioneering solutions and the companies wishing to abide by their ideals.
Member: Bhagyashree Khot
Ecological restoration is a growing field as humanity aims to reverse some of the damage it has done to nature. Yet for those working to research degradation and create programs that work to reverse it, accurate environmental data is hard to come by. Current data is largely GIS and SAR based, with ground-level data being difficult to find, leaving those working in the field with insufficient and scattered data. The team is working to create a platform where ground-level microdata is generated and combined with existing data to provide an easy way to analyze where degradation has occurred and at what level. With this information, projects can be initiated quicker, and be more effective.
Member: Pankaj O. Kela
Global populations are increasingly urban. Yet as they urbanise, people lose a connection to nature and the realities of the fundamental farming and food systems that support their lives and well-being. Few understand that these systems and the communities around them are facing a devitalisation crisis, with the nutritive capacity of soils declining rapidly across major global food baskets. The team is seeking to find ways in which awareness around this growing crisis can be enhanced among urban populations while also making sure that the local experiences and knowledge of those on the ground in these stricken environments play a part in any and all projects that are designed to address this issue.
Member: Sunil Shafqat
Although the amount of food waste generated by societies should be minimised, eliminating it completely is a difficult task. Therefore, we are faced with the interesting question of what can be done with the waste. While using the waste as compost is one way, the team proposes using the waste as feedstock for microbial cellulose production using surface culture methods. The generated material can be used in a variety of applications, including medical and cosmetic solutions.
Member: Jose Valdivia
The waste management sector currently lacks appropriate data management and tracking systems for materials and products at the end-of-life stage. Businesses in the sector do not track and communicate their inventories effectively, leading to the full potential of materials reuse pipeline remaining unmet. By developing a robust service-based platform with an emphasis on these B2B chains, the team is seeking to foster the full use of the resource reuse pipeline while also allowing companies utilizing their platform to burnish their image by being able to demonstrate the ways in which they take part in the materials reuse pipeline.
Members: Märt Vesinurm, Daniel Prisching
There is a great lack of dental nurses in the dental care market and existing nurses are overworked. Oral examination account for a significant amount of production in the mark. During these examinations, a lot of dental nurses’ time is spent inputting patient information into systems as dentists conduct the examination and call out their observations using very simple language (letters and numbers). DentAI proposes a speech recognition solution to automate this process, freeing up dental nurses for other important tasks.
Members: Amirali Moradichargari, Lauri Salonen
E-ACTIVE sees the current landscape where individuals’ fitness and overall wellbeing are being negatively impacted by leading inactive lifestyles and seeks to remedy this situation by building a solution to help those who would like to be more active but lack the motivation. By motivating its users, E-ACTIVE hopes to help them bring about meaningful change in their lives as they become more active.
Members: Nadeem Hafeez, Saima Hafeez, Hafiz Wajid Ali
Nail fungal infections (onychomycosis), widely believed to be a mere cosmetic problem, can in truth lead to discomfort, cellulitis, and, for patients with diabetes, foot ulcers. Furthermore, if diagnosis comes at too late a stage and treatment is improper, onychomycosis can even lead to the complete removal of affected nails or even entire fingers. Yet due to a combination of factors, including poor drug delivery methods to nails owing to them being made of nonvascular and largely impermeable keratin, current treatment methods for onychomycosis are often ineffective and slow acting.
Gencyst hopes to address this problem with the combined roll-out of a novel FDA approved natural active agent which has been shown to be highly effective in treating the infection and a microneedle & patch-based targeted topical delivery solution they are currently developing.
Members: Javad Maleki, Sanaz Naderi, Dina Nyström, Pyeman Khani, Sanaz Seyyedi, Ehsan Shams, Javad Vatandoost
Dental caries is the world’s most prevalent, chronic, non-communicable disease. Over 2.8 billion people across the world suffer from cavities resulting from untreated caries, and it is one of the most common unmet global healthcare issues. HammTek aims to address this issue by creating an AI-enabled hardware & software solution suitable for home use to detect caries which would analyse images and detect caries in individuals.
Members: Meng Sun, Kimi Kejia Jin
Non-communicable diseases (NCD), especially cardiovascular diseases, make up over 30% of global deaths. With NCD’s, rather than suddenly being struck by illness, patients are told that they are suffering from an illness - and may have been suffering from it for quite some time already. Levi seeks to develop combined hardware & software based solutions to monitor individuals’ well-being long-term, allowing for NCD’s to be detected and treatment to be initiated at an earlier stage than presently possible.
Members: Qifeng Yan, Joyce Zou, Yang Huang
Research has shown that changes in gamma wave neural oscillations (20-50 Hz) have been observed in several neurological disorders, and MIT Research published in Nature has shown that non-invasive 40 Hz light flickering and 40 Hz sounds can recruit both neuronal and glial responses to attenuate Alzheimer’s disease (AD) associated pathology. Further research conducted at Shanghai Medical University has found that certain aromatherapies can suppress AD related cognitive decline. Based on this research, the team is working on a non-pharmaceutical, non-invasive device-based method for cognitive rehabilitation therapy.
Members: Rishi Das Roy, Mara Tsatsaroni, Mikita Kulbitski
Computational biologists are a key part of many advanced research projects, who analyse data and generate reports. However, these professionals face a host of software-born issues in documenting, managing, and sharing results and/or reports interactively with collaborators and a global audience both before and after publication. RNAcloudomics hopes to facilitate these processes by leveraging cloud computing technologies to provide a secure platform where complex biological data types and reports can be interactively visualized, explored, and shared. By providing an easy way for scientists to organize, share, and visualize results, RNAcloudomics allows them to spend more time working on their own novel analyses as opposed to menial data-work.
Members: Oguz Tanzer, Liam Gillan, Muhammed Tanweer, Kari Halonen, Raimo Sepponen, Özge Tanzer
Urisens sees the challenges in acquiring reliable data to screen elderly and disabled patients for renal function, hydration, and urine parameters. This data could help increase quality of care for these patients, but due to the difficulty of obtaining the data, it is practically never gathered. Urisens is working on creating a diaper embedded diagnostic screening tool which would facilitate the rapid and automatic gathering of data in a non-invasive manner allowing for better patient treatment.