Technology opportunities

The University of St Andrews has a portfolio of intellectual property which includes major scientific advances, inventions and innovation, we are committed to commercialising these discoveries through spin-out companies and technology licensing with dynamic industries around the world.

Your company can take advantage of our intellectual property via exclusive or non-exclusive licensing, or through collaboration, often with direct access to the inventor. We have numerous opportunities available in a variety of areas.

Current technology opportunities

For a summary of the technology and details of how to obtain further information, click on the project title.

Life Sciences

• Flurinase - An Enzymatic Process for the Generation of Organo-fluorine Compounds
• Assay for Anti-Viral Agents
• Attentuated bi-Segmented Bunyavirus Vaccine
• Biocatalysis of a Novel Fluorinated Sugar (18-F) FDT for PET Imaging
• Combination Treatment for MRSA Nasal Carriage and MRSA-infected Wounds
• Fluorescence Imaging under Ambient Light
• Flurescent Dyes for enhancing Fingerprints
• Anti-infective Technology Platform: Carbohydrate-Binding Modules (CBMs) Targeting Disease
• Method for Selecting Inhibitors of Rm1A
• Novel Method for Acoustic Deterrance (NMAD) of Seal Predation on Fish Farms
• Preparation of Enantiomerically Pure Chiral Amines
• Production of Cyclic Peptides
• Receptor-Binding Molecules As Therapeutics Against Respiratory Pathogens
• Schmallenberg Virus (SV) Vaccine Development
• Targeted Rapid Amplification of CDNA Ends (T-RACE)

Medicine

• Epiduroscopic Navigation & Spinal Problems
• Medical Imager for Sub-Surface Temperature Mapping
• Surgical Instrament for the Measurement of Tissue Oxygenation
• Synergistic Antifungal Combination

Physical Sciences

• A New Perovskite based Anode for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
• Automatic Detection of Video & Film copies distributed on the Internet
• Combined Tidal Stream/Reversible Hydrogen System for Balanced Renewable Generation
• Calibration Device and Method for Microcantilever Sensors
• Data Encryption
• Disposable Spectrometer
• Efficient Hydrogen Generation for Renewable Energy Storage & Transmission
• High Frequency Radiofrequency Pulse Generator
• Microfluidic Chip for biochemical Sensing using Raman Spectroscopy
• Novel High Temperature Membrane for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells & Electrolysers
• Optical Fractionation and Sorting
• Optical Micro-rotator
• Photoporation
• Robust Sharpe Ratio
• SOFCRoll - an advance in solid fuel cell technology
• Tissue Reference Optical Coherence Tomography

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