Headline Successes
Below are some recent examples of UMIP companies that are actively trading, directly impacting quality of life or economic impact:
- UMIP's spin-out company Phototherapeutics Ltd offers world leading treatment system for many types of skin cancer, as well as providing treatment for many other skin conditions such as acne and psoriasis. It also offers an effective technique for reversing the effects of aging of skin
- Gentronix Ltd markets a testing system that increases the effectiveness and efficiency of the genetic toxicity testing phases of new drugs
- Transitive Ltd markets a software technology that allows any computer operating system to run on any microprocessor with no loss of performance. This allows computer companies for the first time to have complete flexibility in the design and component selection process increasing their competitiveness and the value of their offering. 10 million people world-wide use the technology. It has been adopted by Sun Microsystems, IBM, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Fujitsu Siemens, and many others. Every Apple Macintosh sold since January 2006 includes this technology.
- Multisensor systems sells odour sensing systems to the water industry to give advanced warning of water contamination issues in the drinking water network
- Myconostica Ltd develops and supplies molecular diagnostic products to aid rapid and accurate diagnosis of life-threatening invasive fungal infections
- Epistem Ltd provides an array of specialist research services to the drug development industry
- Conformetrix Ltd provides specialist analytical services to the drug industry
- Nanoco Technologies is unique in the nanomaterials market as a company that manufacture large quantities of quantum dots. The bulk manufacture of quantum dots provides the platform to industry to develop a wide variety of next-generation products, such as display technology, lighting, PV solar cells and biological imaging. Nanoco Technologies is the only manufacturer currently able to supply production quantities of these nanoparticles which do not use a regulated heavy metal.
- TDL Sensors design and build tunable laser based gas monitoring systems for industrial, scientific, and medical applications
- Plasma Clean markets air purification systems that use plasma technology to destroy airbourne volatile organic compounds
