{"id":162374,"date":"2025-03-19T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=162374"},"modified":"2025-04-23T17:09:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:09:36","slug":"cracking-innovation-ucl-eastman-biomaterials-team-win-sustainability-business-pitch-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/cracking-innovation-ucl-eastman-biomaterials-team-win-sustainability-business-pitch-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracking Innovation: UCL Eastman biomaterials team win sustainability business pitch prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/04\/reovum_pitch_competition_ucl_eastman.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162376\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4;width:724px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/04\/reovum_pitch_competition_ucl_eastman.jpg.webp 980w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/04\/reovum_pitch_competition_ucl_eastman.jpg-300x214.webp 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/04\/reovum_pitch_competition_ucl_eastman.jpg-150x107.webp 150w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/04\/reovum_pitch_competition_ucl_eastman.jpg-768x549.webp 768w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/04\/reovum_pitch_competition_ucl_eastman.jpg-378x270.webp 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u00a9 UCL<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>David Chau (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/eastman\/research\/biomaterials-and-tissue-engineering\">Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at UCL Eastman<\/a> Dental Institute) and his team have won the Audience Choice Award at\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgmt.ucl.ac.uk\/news\/ucl-school-management-hosts-2024-sustaintech-competition-pitch-day\">UCL School of Management SustainTech Pitching 2024 Competition<\/a> based on their research into the development of biological membranes.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In collaboration with SustainTech consulting company Tecno International and led by UCL School of Management\u2019s Paolo Taticchi and Pierre-Jean Hanard, the UCL SustainTech Pitching Competition is looking for aspiring and existing entrepreneurs seeking to help the planet and its people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Chau and his team pitched ReOvum &#8211; transforming waste eggshells into sustainable wound dressings and eco-friendly alternatives to plastic packaging, which could pioneer&nbsp;a new wave of waste repurposing.&nbsp;The UCL Eastman Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering team scooped&nbsp;one&nbsp;of three winning prizes that included a \u00a31k cash prize and 12 months of Business and Technical Mentorship with&nbsp;SustainTech consulting company, Tecno International, with a feasibility assessment of ReOvum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Speaking of the prize, <strong>Professor Mark Emberton (Dean, UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences)<\/strong> said:\u00a0\u201cThis is a great idea &#8211; a clever way of recycling discarded food to benefit clinical care.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Chau (Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at UCL Eastman Dental Institute) and his team have won the Audience Choice Award at\u00a0the UCL School of Management SustainTech Pitching 2024 Competition based on their research into the development of biological membranes.\u00a0 In collaboration with SustainTech consulting company Tecno International and led by UCL School of Management\u2019s Paolo [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":162377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Dr David Chau and his team won the award for pitching their business idea, ReOvum - transforming waste eggshells into sustainable wound dressings and eco-friendly alternatives to plastic packaging","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838,8793,16735,26178,12351,7105,15515],"supplier":[26219,26218,26217,677],"class_list":["post-162374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-biomaterials","tag-biowaste","tag-eggshells","tag-medicaldevices","tag-packaging","tag-upcycling","supplier-reovum","supplier-tecno-international","supplier-ucl-eastman-dental-institute","supplier-university-college-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162374"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=162374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}