Imperial and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have shared the latest winners of its seed fund as it celebrates its 10 year anniversary.
The MIT-Imperial Seed Fund aims to help kick-start early-stage projects that lead to high-impact research, discovery science and the deployment of frontier technologies.
The Fund helps to support exploratory research, visits between the teams, hackathons, and exchanges for students and staff.
The latest winners include:
- Explainable Multi-Agent Motion Planning via Distributionally Robust Posetal Games. Led by Dr Dario Paccagnan (Department of Computing) and Dr Gioele Zardini (MIT).
- Improving understanding of therapy induced liver toxicity to improve patient outcomes in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Led by Dr Richard Burt (Imperial) and Dr Sangeeta Bhatia (MIT).
- Biradical constructs to understand biological electron transfer. Led by Dr Maxie Roessler (Department of Chemistry) and Dr Daniel Suess (MIT).
- Sensing Garden - Biodiversity monitoring in cities. Led by Dr Richard Gill (Life Sciences) and Dr Simone Mora (MIT).
- Using the laser fusion platform to study plasma effects on astrophysically relevant nuclear reactions. Led by Dr Brian Appelbe (Department of Physics) and Dr Maria Gatu Johnson (MIT).
10-year anniversary
Imperial and MIT are celebrating 10 years of a strategic partnership and their pioneering seed fund which has supported dozens of innovative research projects.
MIT is one of Imperial's top partners for research collaborations around 400 joint papers published every year.
To mark the occasion, the two institutes are hosting a special showcase event:
- Time:17.00 - 18.00 BST (Online)
