Seedcorn Funding Competition 2020 postponed due to SARS-CoV-2 pandemic In view of the current situation that we are all now facing, the NIHR Brain Injury MedTech Co-operative has decided to suspend the launch of the Seedcorn Funding Competition from the 20 April 2020 until [...]
Dr Mark Kotter and Dr Benjamin Davies, from Cambridge, and Iwan Sandler, from South Wales, founded ‘Myelopathy.org’, a pioneering charity that is driving scientific research and support for sufferers of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy (CSM), a little known degenerative condition which causes pain and loss [...]
The third NIHR Brain Injury MedTech Co-operative BITT Tank will focus on the development of Artificial Intelligence in neurointensive care. The revolution in artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting every aspect of our lives, none more so than in healthcare. The value of AI [...]
The New Year Honours list, published on Saturday 29 December, recognises the outstanding achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom. Amongst the UK science leaders, researchers and university administrators celebrated in this year list, Professor (Emeritus) John Pickard was awarded [...]
Congratulations to Dr Ari Ercole who has been awarded one of 17 Health Education England 'Topol' Digital Healthcare Fellowships. Dr Ercole’s research has focussed on digital biomarkers and applications of statistical and machine learning to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and perioperative routinely collected data. [...]
Are you a PhD, postdoc, early career academic or research-related member of staff at the School of Technology, the School of Physical Sciences, the School of Biological Sciences; or the School of Clinical Medicine? Would you like the opportunity to develop skills in entrepreneurship while [...]
Early treatment with tranexamic acid could save ‘hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide’ According to a major study published in The Lancet on 14th October 2019, tranexamic acid could reduce deaths in traumatic brain injury patients by as much as 20%, depending on the [...]
Cambridge MedTech Foundation - Innovation Programme CALL FOR CLINICAL NEEDS The Innovation Programme is an annual education event that runs as two month ‘table-top’ exercise intended to teach the skills required to design, develop and market a novel technological solution to a [...]
Congratulations to the Cambridge Acute Brain Injury team which has been listed as the leading European Brain Injury Research Centre in Europe based on Expertscape - a website that objectively ranks people and institutions by their expertise. Well done to David Menon (Medicine) who was ranked [...]
The Mike Barnes Award for Innovation 2019 is an initiative organised by UKABIF (The United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum), sponsored by Cygnet Health and is being run in collaboration with the Brain Injury MIC. The Award is open for entries from everyone with an innovative [...]