News | April 2026
Updates and opportunities from our spinouts and pipeline
Queen Mary Innovation » News » April 2026
Join us at our third annual investor showcase on 14th May. Discover investable spinouts, pre-spinouts and social ventures from Queen Mary creating a more sustainable planet. From next generation solid state batteries to plastic free packaging, you will hear from founders on the pathway to investment who are developing commercial solutions to major environmental challenges. The pitches will be followed by networking with investors, founders and technology specialists from across Queen Mary’s innovation ecosystem, including artificial intelligence and MedTech.
This event is for potential investors or commercial partners. Contact us for details.
Latest from our spinouts
EcoBarrier seeking commercial partners to replace plastic food packaging. Dr Colin Crick and Dr Emma Sadler have invented a plant-based superhydrophobic coating which repels water, gases and oil, and extends product shelf life, making it perfect for replacing the plastic lining in cardboard food and drinks packaging. The coating is designed for immediate and seamless integration into production lines.
Contact Dr Colin Crick to learn more.
hVIVO leading world’s first pivotal Phase III human challenge trial for whooping cough vaccine. Founded by Prof John Oxford, hVIVO are the world leader in human challenge trials. This will be their largest ever trial, with over 500 participants. Whooping cough kills 160,000 young children globally each year. Outbreaks are unpredictable, which makes conventional field studies unfeasible, whereas human challenge trials can deliver rapid and high-quality data to accelerate the development of future vaccines and antiviral therapies.
RoEx brings innovative AI music-mixing to video platforms. Video is now essential for brands and content creators across LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. Even podcasts and radio are rarely without a video version. But with every platform having their own audio requirements, getting the dialogue, music, and sound effects to sound good together across platforms is slow and expensive. Too loud, and the platform lowers it down, making it sound flat. Too quiet, and the platform cranks it up, revealing unwanted background noise. Founded by Dr David Ronan in Queen Mary’s Centre for Digital Music, RoEx’s AI music mixing technology has removed the technical barriers to professional music creation for over five million tracks since 2023. Now, video creators need only say where their content is going and RoEx’s AI tool will automatically adjust for optimum audio quality, so creators can focus on creating.
RoEx are looking for partners to help scale further. Learn more about RoEx.
Dr Suzanne Eldridge wins Queen Mary Medicine and Dentistry Awards. Dr Suzanne Eldridge and Prof Francesco Dell’Accio invented ReFleks, a novel way of fixing joint damage to prevent future osteoarthritis which doesn’t require open surgery, is significantly cheaper than surgery, and can be done quickly with fewer complications. The award recognises Dr Eldridge’s work leading ReFleks as being among the very best in innovation and enterprise in the faculty, which is 3rd globally for producing highly cited research in Medicine.
Magnetic Magazine recommend LANDR as the best subscription for new music producers. LANDR’s AI-powered music mastering tools were born out of research in Prof Josh Reiss’s lab and have gone on to become a market leading, used by 7 million musicians worldwide. Magnetic Magazine said LANDR deserves the top spot because it helps newer producers finish music and get it out publicly by keeping the barrier between writing a track and publishing a track low.
Industry opportunities
Advancing innovation in nuclear technologies. Queen Mary’s scientists and Business Development Team took part in the Economist Impact Nuclear Summit. We’re looking to partner with industry to accelerate innovation in radiation detection and sensing technologies; neutron transport and fluid flow simulation; medical applications of radiation and radionuclide production; nuclear fusion; and robots for hazardous environments.
Contact Dr Joanne Chamberlain to discuss partnering with Queen Mary’s Faculty of Science and Engineering and Jemma Trick to discuss partnering with Queen Mary’s Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.
Work with Queen Mary on innovation through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership. A KTP is a three-way research partnership between your business, Queen Mary, and an exceptional graduate who transfers the new knowledge into the business. KTPs are open to British businesses with two or more employees. For large businesses, 50% of the costs are paid for by Innovate UK, the government’s innovation agency. For small or medium-sized businesses the grant is 67%. The remaining project costs are met by the business.
Contact Maria Supersad to learn more.
Backing London’s entrepreneurial ecosystem
London Social Ventures makes an exceptionally strong case for continued public investment. A joint initiative led by Queen Mary, UCL and a wider consortium of London universities, London Social Ventures supports academic and student led social ventures to move from early-stage idea to sustainable business. Counterfactual economic analysis from Divine Ox shows that London Social Ventures is accelerating real economic activity, generating jobs and revenue beyond what the market alone would have produced, and could deliver more than 300% return in tax revenue over four years on the original public investment.
Read the London Social Ventures Impact Report.
Student and alumni startups
Salibo shortlisted for London Startup Awards. Founded by Nouh Salibo, a Queen Mary medical genetics graduate, security tech startup Salibo is inspired by the human immune system. Salibo uses AI to unify security and workforce to detect risk, coordinate response, capture intelligence, and continuously adapt. Salibo is in the final for Technology Startup of the Year, held in June.
Queen Mary students showcase their startups. Twenty student entrepreneurs pitched startups ranging from AI to ice cream at Qincubator, Queen Mary’s early-stage student startup programme. The teams will continue to develop their businesses over the coming months, culminating in four teams pitching at London Demo Day in September.
Contact Leah Thompson to learn more about Queen Mary’s student entrepreneurship programme.