Academy celebrates outstanding young engineers of the year

“Five young engineers who have been outstandingly successful in their respective fields at an early stage of their careers have each won a prestigious award and a £3,000 prize from the Royal Academy of Engineering. All five are winners of the RAEng Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year competition, awarded by the Academy with support from the Worshipful Company of Engineers, and will receive the awards at the Academy Awards Dinner in London on Tuesday 12 July 2022.”

12th July 2022 | Royal Acedemy of Engineering

Dr Robert Hammond named one of five Young Engineers of the Year

“Dr Robert Hammond, Lecturer in Infection and Global Health at the School of Medicine will be named as one of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s five Young Engineers of the Year next week. He will receive the award at the Academy Awards Dinner in London on Tuesday 12 July 2022.”

7th July 2022 | University of St Andrews, School of Medicine

Research team looking at the use of UVC light to kill viruses

“New research is analysing the use of UVC light to see if it can prevent the transmission of airborne viruses. The project was awarded an Innovate UK Grant of £296,000 to investigate the safety and efficacy of UVC light.”

9th June 2021 | University of St Andrews, School of Medicine

SLIC: a novel technology to rapidly detect bacteria

“The Microbiology Society is undertaking a project entitled A Sustainable Future as part of our 75th Anniversary, which aims to highlight the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to our members and empower them to use their research to evidence and impact the goals. Earlier this year, we put a call out to our members to submit case studies in the following three areas: antimicrobial resistance, soil health and the circular economy.”

A SLIC answer to a continuing problem

“The burden of Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) is a growing problem globally. Here we present a device that determines susceptibility rapidly from primary human or animal samples and could turn the tide of AMR. SLIC (Scattered Light Integrating Collector) is a sensitive device for the detection of microbes based on the scattering of laser light.”

8 April 2019 | microbiologyresearch.org/

St Andrews team scoops Life Sciences Award for work in antibiotic resistance

“The Orbital Diagnostics team at St Andrews won the Innovation Award at Scotland’s Life Sciences Awards for the development of a device – the Scattered Light Integrated Collector (SLIC) – which reduces the time taken to test bacteria for resistance.”

21 May 2018 | www.digitalhealth.net/

Breakthrough by St Andrews scientists in fight against ‘antibiotics apocalypse’

“Growing resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics is one of the biggest public health threats of modern times with the potential to cause 80,000 deaths in the UK over the next 20 years. But a team of scientists at St Andrews University –  awarded a prestigious prize in London this week – is fighting back. Michael Alexander reports.”

25th November 2016 | thecourier.co.uk

Laser diagnoses bacterial infection in record time

“The United Nations has warned that the increase in drug resistant disease could cost millions of lives in the next few decades. Researchers at St Andrews University have created a laser that can identify the bacteria present in an infection, in minutes instead of hours. The team hope that faster diagnosis will mean more targeted use of prescription drugs and a reduction in antibiotic resistance.

BBC Scotland’s science correspondent Kenneth Macdonald has been to take a closer look.”

21 November 2016 | bbc.co.uk