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03 Could Virtual Humans Revolutionise Healthcare? PIONEER Summer 2009 www.epsrc.ac.uk 03 Could virtual humans revolutionise healthcare? ROBERT WINSTON / L’AQUILA EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH / ILLUMINATING DNA EVIDENCE EPSRC: funding the future The Engineering and Physical Sciences Get involved: Contact us: Research Council (EPSRC) is the main EPSRC’s portfolio of research projects We have dedicated sector teams working to understand the research and skills needs of UK government agency for funding includes more than 2,000 partnerships their sectors and to help connect businesses research and training in engineering with organisations from the industrial, with university expertise. and the physical sciences – from business and charitable sectors. Aerospace, Defence and Marine Contact: Simon Crook, Tel: 01793 444425 mathematics to materials science More than 35 per cent of our research Creative Industries and from information technology to funding includes collaborative partners. Contact: Pamela Mason, Tel: 01793 444268 structural engineering. EPSRC’s knowledge transfer goals Electronics, Communications and IT Contact: Matthew Ball, Tel: 01793 444351 include: Working with UK universities, it invests Energy around £740m a year in world class • Enhancing opportunities for Contact: Stephen Elsby, Tel: 01793 444458 research and training to promote future business/university research Infrastructure and Environment economic development and improved collaborations to accelerate Contact: Claire Tansley, Tel: 01793 444237 quality of life. knowledge transfer. Manufacturing Contact: Pilar Sepulveda, Tel: 01793 444068 • Ensuring postgraduate skills meet the PIONEER is EPSRC’s quarterly Medicines and Healthcare needs of business through increased Contact: Nicolas Guernion (Medicines) magazine. demand-led and collaborative training. Tel: 01793 444343 Contact: Claire Wagstaffe (Healthcare) It highlights how EPSRC-funded • Strengthening partnerships with Tel: 01793 444586 research and training is helping to business to improve knowledge Transport Systems and Vehicles Contact: Richard Bailey, Tel: 01793 444423 tackle global challenges and the major transfer – including the development issues facing individuals, business If you can’t find a sector relevant to you, of strategic partnerships with please email: [email protected] and the UK economy. research-intensive companies. EPSRC Polaris House North Star Avenue You can find out more about EPSRC and how you can work with us by visiting Swindon our website www.epsrc.ac.uk SN2 1ET E-mail: [email protected] Switchboard: 01793 444000 Helpline: 01793 444100 Website: www.epsrc.ac.uk The views and statements expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily PIONEER those of EPSRC unless explicitly stated. Some of the research highlighted may not yet have Editor: Christopher Buratta been peer-reviewed. E-mail: [email protected] © Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Reproduction permitted only if source Tel: 01793 444305 is acknowledged. Editorial Assistance: Rachel Blackford ISSN 1758-7727 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 01793 444459 Mailing changes: [email protected] Contributors David Bradley, Maria Burke, Barry Hague, Kate Ravilious PIONEER 03 CONTENTS Summer 2009 FEATURES 12 Cover story Creating the virtual human that could lead to a new era in personalised healthcare 16 Power to the people Professor Robert Winston on the 12 democratisation of science 18 Earthquake engineering Vital evidence from the recent Italian earthquake will help improve buildings and infrastructure 22 Crime scene investigation The new techniques illuminating vital DNA evidence and extracting ‘lifestyle intelligence’ from fingerprints 24 Heartbeat monitor Technology developed for foundry workers is helping to save lives in the delivery room 26 Carbon countdown How the Energy Technologies Institute and EPSRC are tackling looming carbon 16 reduction targets 28 Material gains 26 The world’s thinnest material is set to make a big impact 30 Industrial revolution redux Could the humble canal barge be the future of transport, again REGULARS 4 Leader 5 Briefings Diamond transistors, lip reading computers, carbon capture research and a sustainable racing car “You get 11 Interview EPSRC’s Emma Feltham on building strong hit by the bonds with business 18 32 Viewpoint fact there are Professor David Gann discusses how advances in innovation management will play a vital role in people there protecting the future health of the UK economy 34 Profile and this is Leading mathematician Marcus du Sautoy talks about his heroes, Sunday league football and 22 their home” running away to the theatre here has been increased focus in demonstrating technologies that will help in recent months on science and reduce carbon emissions. The projects it engineering’s contribution to a funds will draw on the expertise and modern economy – and in part research created by EPSRC-funded projects, Tits role in economic recovery. and will lead to commercial development It is clear – and has been clear to those of world-leading technologies. of us within the science community for Certain low carbon technologies, such as sometime – that British research can wind and marine will have a visual impact stimulate the great ideas, develop the on our landscape and, echoing Professor innovative new technologies and produce Winston’s sentiments on page 16, it will be the fantastic minds to drive new business. vital that the public help shape their future We must however retain our focus on the development and deployment if they are to long term challenges we face, and cannot stand any chance of success. let the current economic situation detract Leading the world in innovation itself, from these. We must view the immediate as discussed by Professor David Gann on term problems as a stimulus to deliver page 32, will allow us to export our Balancing economic growth through the generation knowledge around the globe and will important challenges and integration of skills and technologies make us a world leader, not only in that will enable us to make real progress developing new technologies, but in high on these long term challenges. value manufacturing and the associated Perhaps the issues that best demonstrate service sector. this approach are those of the environment Recent changes to EPSRC’s business and energy supply, generation and demand. sector teams, outlined on page 11, will help These issues have risen in public and us meet these responsibilities and ensure the political importance over a prolonged UK’s research base fulfils its potential, that period of relative economic stability. it improves and saves lives through better Now, faced with more pressing economic healthcare, combats the environmental challenges, we must not let our resolve to challenges we face and safeguards our tackle environmental issues waver. We have long term economic prosperity. Stimulating the opportunity to stimulate economic economic recovery is a tough challenge, growth based on new technologies in areas but research at the frontiers has always such as low carbon transport and renewable been about meeting and overcoming energy – to help build what is sometimes tough challenges. described as the ‘green economy’. And, with what seems like a growing list This issue of PIONEER raises some of of daunting challenges confronting us, we these issues and opportunities. Hydrogen must continue to find time to marvel at the fuel cell technology, featured on page 30, wonder of science and engineering as it could have an important role to play in helps us rediscover an instrument, the lituus, low carbon transport. Further work at the lost for nearly three centuries and allows us University of Birmingham is looking at how to hear one of Bach’s compositions in its we build a ‘hydrogen economy’ to support full glory again. Download the PIONEER this, including supply chains, distribution Podcast and take a listen! and storage. The Energy Technologies Institute, featured on page 26, has a vital role to play David Delpy EPSRC chief executive PIONEER 03 Summer 2009 05 REVIVING BACH ART AND ENGINEERING RACING GREEN FUTURE HEALTH briefings READING LIPS DIGITAL HUBS DIAMOND CHIPS CARBON CAPTURE BOOST Lost horn breathes new life into Bach cantata CUTTING-EDGE computer modelling software has brought an extinct, trumpet-like instrument back to life – allowing a work by Bach to be performed as the composer intended for the first time in nearly 300 years. No-one alive today had heard, played or even seen a picture of the lituus – a two metre long horn made from beech. But it has been recreated thanks to software developed by an EPSRC-funded PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, a Swiss-based music conservatory specialising in early music, has now used Edinburgh’s designs to build two identical examples of the long-lost instrument. Both were used in an experimental performance of Bach’s cantata ‘O Jesus Christ, light of my life’ earlier this year. To hear recordings of the lituus and find out how it was recreated download The PIONEER Podcast: www.epsrc.ac.uk/ videoaudio briefings Green race car provides carrot for sustainable motorsport A CARROT steering wheel, potato starch body and flax fibre seat – no, not a healthy remake of Hansel and Gretel but the component list of a fully functioning high performance Formula 3 racing car. The World F3rst car, made entirely from sustainable materials, underwent its first track test in May and passed with flying colours. engineering
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