• Question: what is your greatest invention?

    Asked by 466dagg27 to Dawn, James, Sarah, Sylvain, Tomas, Vaanu on 11 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Sylvain Jamais

      Sylvain Jamais answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      I have a few patents to my name, but they haven’t yet found their way into a device. My favourite of the designs I have contributed to or I am currently working on is the one about diagnosing tuberculosis better. This has the potential to reduce the current 10 million people infected with the disease and save some of the 1,5 million who die every year from not being treated early enough or at all.

    • Photo: Dawn Gillies

      Dawn Gillies answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      I don’t have anything that’s made it into being a real product yet, but I have 3 more years of studying still left so maybe by the end of that!

    • Photo: Vaanathi Sundaresan

      Vaanathi Sundaresan answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      The software tool to detect/ diagnose various eye diseases in early stage and categories the stage of disease. I am still proud of it since it has helped in reducing the number of patients by 5% in 8 clinics all over India over a span of 3 years.

    • Photo: Sarah Hampson

      Sarah Hampson answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      I’ve nearly finished making a microchip that uses light energy to analyse cells. We hope it can be used to diagnose diseases (so like a doctor shrank onto a microchip)
      It currently costs £10 to make but we want to make it even smaller and cheaper- then we can post it out to people in other countries who can’t afford to see a doctor!

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