How do you make wearable technologies comfortable and unobtrusive for people who need them? Professor Michele Barbour talks to Dr Zeke Steer about how personal experiences with his great grandmother influenced the development of SmartSocks™, an innovative technology aimed at supporting individuals with dementia.

⭐Highlights

§  Zeke shares his journey from PhD student at the University of Bristol to CEO and founder of Milbotix.

§  Zeke explains the challenges of integrating technology into the lives of individuals with dementia and emphasizes the importance of early detection, intervention, and prevention.

§  Explore Zeke's entrepreneurial journey and gain insights into the challenges and rewards of building a business. 

§  Discover how Milbotix plans to navigate the intersection of technology, healthcare, and societal change.

🌐 About the Enterprise Sessions

The Enterprise Sessions bring together a diverse mix of company founders and researchers who talk openly about their personal experiences of forming spin-outs and start-ups, raising capital, academic-industry partnerships and the joys of translating research discoveries into real-world impact. 

The series aims to inform, inspire and challenge myths and stereotypes about research commercialisation and how businesses and universities can work together to tackle society's biggest challenges. 

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Milbotix website: https://milbotix.com/ 

Milbotix on X: https://twitter.com/milbotix

Milbotix on LinkexIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/milbotix/ 

Milbotix on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087489834753 

Women in STEM careers in Lebanon experience gendered microaggressions at work, including microinsults and microinvalidation.

Dr Yasmeen Makarem and Dr Beverly Metcalfe conducted a qualitative study with 21 women in Lebanon working in STEM fields to better understand these experiences. Human resources professionals could use these findings to improve workplaces for women and continue to diversify STEM.

Read more in Research Features: doi.org/10.26904/RF-151-6107507694

Read the original research: doi.org/10.1007/s11199-023-01396-4

Health problems are not just health problems ; they embody politics, social status, history, money and more. Where there is inequality in those underpinning factors, inequity in healthcare access is sure to follow.

Professor Leonard Egede from the Medical College of Wisconsin examines the extent of social biases and their impacts on health, and the global impacts of both diabetes and racism. His research puts forward a holistic view of how healing social ills can help relieve individual health too.

Read the original research: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00909-1

Plasmapheresis, the exchange of infected plasma with fresh plasma from blood, is normally used at the far end of the treatment regimen in cases where no other medication is effective.

Dr Kiprov’s research on the different immunoregulatory and neuroregulatory properties of plasmapheresis and its benefits establishes plasmapheresis as a prophylactic measure against neurodegenerative conditions and infectious diseases.

Read more in Research Features

Read the original research: acmcasereport.org

How can spin-outs leverage end user feedback to refine products and validate markets? Find out as Professor Michele Barbour talks to Dr Jenny Bailey, the CEO and Co-Founder of Ferryx, a biotech company focused on the commercial production of live bacterial products for the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal inflammation in humans and animals.

⭐Highlights

§  Discover how a chance conversation with Co-Founder Dr Tristan Cogan sparked the innovative idea behind Ferryx: the disruption of inflammatory pathways in the gut using live bacteria that flourish in the presence of iron.

§  Find out about the steps Jenny and Tristan took to protect their new intellectual property and take it from the lab to a commercial product

§  Jenny gives her perspective on the pre-accelerator ICURe programme, which encouraged her to step out of her comfort zone, engage with stakeholders, refine the project and test its market viability.

§  Hear about Ferryx’s approach to ongoing product development and testing, including clinical trials and engagement with patient feedback.

🌐 About the Enterprise Sessions

The Enterprise Sessions bring together a diverse mix of company founders and researchers who talk openly about their personal experiences of forming spin-outs and start-ups, raising capital, academic-industry partnerships and the joys of translating research discoveries into real-world impact. 

The series aims to inform, inspire and challenge myths and stereotypes about research commercialisation and how businesses and universities can work together to tackle society's biggest challenges. 

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If you found this episode inspiring or informative, please don’t forget to like and share. Visit our website or subscribe to the University of Bristol’s YouTube channel for more Enterprise Sessions. 

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🔗 Connect with Ferryx

Ferryx website: https://www.ferryx.com/

Ferryx on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ferryx/

Ferryx on X: https://twitter.com/ferryx_bristol

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionising the field of radiology, making faster and more precise diagnoses possible. However, most radiologists aren’t familiar with AI and report a fear of being replaced by it. 

Dr Jordan Perchik from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, designed a free online ‘AI Literacy Course’ which has reached more than 500 radiology trainees from 10 countries.

Read more in Research Features

Read the original research: doi.org/10.7191/jgr.783

As a society, we have come to rely on smartphones to do far more than make a telephone call. However, concern is growing over the potential negative consequences of their over-use, such as distraction, forgetfulness and cognitive laziness. 

Led by psychologist Dr Andree Hartanto, researchers from Singapore Management University tracked how long students spent checking their smartphones and using different applications, and how this affected their cognitive functioning.

 Read the original research : https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12597

Financial stress testing generally involves a team of modellers working closely together, applying complex mathematical models to large and granular datasets. So, how can data science support the management of complex mathematical models, such as used in the financial sphere? 

STAMP€ IT – a data-science platform developed by Dr Jerome Henry and his colleagues at the European Central Bank, can be used to manage models employed in the case at hand for financial stress testing. 

Read the original research: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09176-6_44

Read more background research: ecb.europa.eu/stampe201702.en.pdf

Handbook on financial stress testing: doi.org/10.1017/9781108903011 

Guide on reverse stress testing: doi.org/10.1515/9783110647907

Disclaimer: The podcast builds on work by Jerome Henry that does not necessarily reflect the views of the ECB.

How can the UK address its technology skills gap? Professor Michele Barbour speaks with Kirsten Cater, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. Kirsten leads the skills and training aspect of the MyWorld project, addressing the significant skills gap in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.

⭐Highlights

§  Delve into the relationship between higher education and industry as Kirsten shares her knowledge of the challenges faced by early-career researchers.

§  Explore practical tips to help make connections at networking events and strategies for researchers to go beyond their immediate projects. 

§  Kirsten reflects on the thread that ties her diverse career together - her core as a computer scientist, coupled with a passion for understanding people.

§  Find out why interdisciplinary approaches are needed to address future challenges as Kirsten shares her experiences at the Centre for Sociodigital Futures.

🌐 About the Enterprise Sessions

The Enterprise Sessions bring together a diverse mix of company founders and researchers who talk openly about their personal experiences of forming spin-outs and start-ups, raising capital, academic-industry partnerships and the joys of translating research discoveries into real-world impact. 

The series aims to inform, inspire and challenge myths and stereotypes about research commercialisation and how businesses and universities can work together to tackle society's biggest challenges. 

👍 Like, Share, Subscribe, Explore

If you found this episode inspiring or informative, please don’t forget to like and share. Visit our website or subscribe to the University of Bristol’s YouTube channel for more Enterprise Sessions. 

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 Connect with 

MyWorld website: https://www.myworld-creates.com/ 

MyWorld on X: https://twitter.com/MyWorldCreates

MyWorld on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/myworldcreates/

MyWorld  on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MyWorldCreates 

Dr Kirsten Cater at Pervasive Media Studio: https://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/residents/kirsten-cater 

The process of obtaining FDA approval for a new drug costs an estimated $1.8 billion and can take up to 15 years. What’s more, only a small percentage of drugs that undergo human clinical trials are approved. 

To address this, Bartley J Madden, Research Fellow at the Madden Center for Value Creation at Florida Atlantic University, USA, has developed a free to choose medicine (FTCM) model that is currently being considered by US Congress.

Read more in Research outreach

Read the original research: econjwatch.org/science-on-fda-liberalization

CEO impersonation scams are on the rise. So, how can employees be made alert to such a scam? 

Margit Scholl, Professor of Business and Administrative Informatics at TH Wildau, explores a novel approach to giving business employees a greater awareness of fraud. Together with her research team and two corporate partners, she developed both an analog and a digital game-based learning scenario geared to this topic to determine what methods of awareness raising can best protect businesses from this costly threat.

Read the original article: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33258-6_40