Innovation Return on Research (IROR) | Case studies

31 Jan 2020

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Innovation Return on Research (IROR) is a collaborative programme with IBM Research that aims to solve industrial problems and create economic and societal impact. The programme has developed a suite of digital assets which have been applied across industry sectors including Chemistry & Materials, Life Sciences, Engineering & Manufacturing and Enabling Technologies​.​ Read more about our success stories below:

​​	Designing safer technology solutions for home care​ Researchers based at the STFC Hartree® Centre worked with Cera Care – a technology-enabled home care company – to design a safe, non-invasive monitoring solution to improve elderly care.
​​	​Predicting novel lipid packing for drug encapsulation​ AstraZeneca is working with researchers based at the STFC Hartree® Centre on molecular simulation techniques that have the potential to reduce the time and costs associated with developing advanced medicines for the targeted delivery of novel mRNA-based drugs.
​	​Next generation simulati​on of biomolecules​​ Researchers based at the STFC Hartree® Centre are wo​rking with companies like GSK to develop and explore new technology to accelerate the discovery of potential new drugs and therapeutics.
​	​Ge​tting the picture of emulsion flows​ Unilever and the STFC Hartree® Centre are employing computational modelling to study detailed dynamics of emulsions to optimise innovative manufacturing processes.
​	​Cognitive chemical manufacturing​ Researchers based at the STFC Hartree® Centre worked with AstraZeneca – to optimise their chemical manufacturing processes, saving time and costs in large scale product production and manufacturing.
​	Improving personal care products with advanced simulation​ Researchers based at the STFC Hartree® Centre are working with Unilever, using advanced in-silico modelling capabilities to drive understanding into antimicrobial peptide interactions for future product development.
​	​Reducing the risk in vessel turn-arounds for ports​ Researchers based at the STFC Hartree® Centre worked with worked with Peel Ports Group – a leading UK port operator – to reduce uncertainty in available draft on vessels arriving and departing in ports using AI.
​	​Improving packing line efficiency​ Researchers based at the STFC Hartree® Centre are working with Unilever to optimise their packing line operations using the power of data.
​​​​​	​Boulder detection from seabed sonar images Researchers based at the STFC Hartree® Centre worked with hydrographic survey company Bibby Hydromap, using computational deep learning techniques to automate ​the process ​of labelling boulders in sonar images.​​
​	​Computational formulation for polymers​ Researchers based at the STFC Hartree® Centre worked with Johnson Matthey, using computational techniques to automate and accelerate the process of identifying properties of novel chemical formulations.
​	​Simulation and machine learning for future medicine Researchers based at the STFC Hartree® Centre worked with AstraZeneca to accelerate lead optimisation by providing insights on a new class of drugs with the potential to reduce costs and increase productivity.
​​	​Developing visualisation and AI tools for engineering production Researchers based at the STFC Hartree® Centre and the Virtual Engineering Centre, University of Liverpool are working with Airbus to apply artificial intelligence (AI) and data visualisation to their production process.
​​	Usi​ng image recognition to identify vortices for vehicle design​ Researchers based at the STFC Hartree® Centre are working with TotalSim – an aerodynamics and CFD company – to understand vortex formation in Formula One cars and improve aerodynamic performance.
​​	​Machine learning in whisky identification and verification Researchers based at the STFC Hartree® Centre worked with the Scotch Whisky Research Institute (SWRI) using data analytics to tackle counterfeiting across the sector.
​	Using data analytics to understand our gut microbiome Researchers based at the STFC Hartree® Centre worked with the Quadram Institute – a food and health research centre – to design and optimise bioinformatics tools for understanding large genetic datasets.
	​Understanding drug toxicity through gene expression​ Researchers based at the STFC Hartree® Centre worked with agricultural and biotechnology company, Syngenta to design bioinformatics tools for high throughput screening of candidate compounds.
​	​Unde​​rstanding soil health through the lens of its microbiome ​By analysing large microbiome data sets, researchers at STFC Hartree® Centre are working with Rothamsted Research – to understand how soil microbiomes can shape soil health.
​	​Designing novel antimicrobial peptides Ingenza is working with the STFC Hartree® Centre on molecular simulation techniques with the potential to reduce the time and costs associated with bringing new drug designs to market.
​	​GPU acceleration at scale with OpenPower platforms We are working to optimise Code_Saturne, an open-source software package developed by EDF for complex CFD simulations to run on next-generation architectures.