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The Royal Academy of Engineering ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs Award
This award of £40,000 from
The Royal Academy of Engineering has been made
possible by the generous support of the ERA
Foundation. A prize fund has been established to
identify entrepreneurial researchers, working in UK
universities, in the field of electro-technology,
who are at an early stage in their career. The award
will be presented to an individual or team
demonstrating considerable entrepreneurial promise
and the potential to benefit the UK’s future
prosperity.
The winning entry will receive a prize of £10,000
along with a further £30,000 to invest in the
development of the winning idea. The winner(s) will
be assigned an appropriate member of the judging
panel as a mentor for a period of two years. In
addition to the first award, two additional cash
prizes of £2,000 will be presented to runners-up. All
Prize winners and their home institutions receive
significant publicity for this event endorsed by The
Royal Academy of Engineering.
Recipient
2008
 EMdot
Queen Mary University
EMdot, for their patented
drop-on demand dispensing technology. The technology
allows the controlled production of extremely small
liquid droplets which is important in a number of
biomedical applications such as the engineering of
replacement cartilage, soft tissue or bone and the
production of microarray chips for drug development
or disease diagnosis. See the News Release for more information.
2007
 Mario Iobbi
Imperial College London
Mario is the founder of
Dynamic Therapeutics a company which has developed a
novel respiratory therapeutic device to help
patients with respiratory problems. See the News Release for more information.
Enquiries
All enquiries should be sent to:
Alexandra Pennington
Assistant Manager, Awards & Events
The Royal Academy of Engineering
[E-mail
Alex]
The ERA Foundation website is at
www.erafoundation.org
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