Seedcorn Funding Competition 2020 has been deferred due to COVID-19 pandemic In view of the current situation that we are all now facing, the NIHR Brain Injury MedTech Co-operative has decided to defer the launch of the Seedcorn Funding Competition. Please, revisit the webpage [...]
Brain Injury MIC COVID-19 Challenge Recognising the current situation and in line with NIHR guidelines, we are inviting expressions of interests for potential solutions designed to address issues and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are keen to catalyse solutions using all available means, [...]
https://www.nihr.ac.uk/covid-19/ Other current COVID-19 Funding Opportunities: Testing Methods Sourcing Platform https://testingmethods.crowdicity.com Platform in partnership between the Department of Health and Social Care, the UK Bioindustry Association, British In Vitro Diagnostics Association and the Royal College of Pathologists. COVID-19 and mitigating impact on health [...]
Following the national prioritisation process established by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic and the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust guidelines to help researchers delivering Covid-19 studies, the NIHR Brain Injury MedTech Co-operative has [...]
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 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 [...]