In 2017, over 100 undergraduate students attended FoNS-MAD workshops, and 14 teams of students from across the departments of Chemistry, Mathematics, Life Sciences and Physics, as well as from Medicine and Engineering, applied to take part in the competition.
Our four teams of finalists, who worked on their innovative ideas in the lab over the summer of 2017, competed to win the top prize at the grand final on 22 October 2017, are listed below. You can read more about all of the teams in this news article.
The winners of the competition were Team Matoha, who won both the £1000 prize and the new £6000 Accelerator Prize. You can learn more about Matoha here.
FoNS-MAD 2017 Finalist Teams
2017 Finalist Teams
Team Debac
Team Debac are Thomas Caganek, Kim Ngan Luu Hoang and Mingke Pan from Life Sciences, and Gi Young Park from Physics. Together they are working on a method for early detection of surgical wound infection using pigment-containing liposomes.
Team TBDetect
Team TBDetect are Mark Pollock from Physics; Jacob Robson-Tull and Bibi Ryder Wood from Life Sciences ; and Federica Raguseo from Chemistry. The team are hoping to develop a quick and cheap diagnosis for tuberculosis.
Finalists 2017
Team Matoha
Team Matoha are Hans Chan and Martin Holicky of Chemistry, and David Anzhuo Dai and and James Kung of Physics. Their idea is for a low-cost near-infrared plastics identification tool.
Team ThinAir
Thin Air are Samuel Bruggen, Jonathan Risley and Jansen Teng Weng Nang of Life Sciences, and Muhammed Maktari of the Materials Department in the Faculty of Engineering. The team aim to produce a bio-membrane to obtain water in high yields from the atmosphere.