CHARITIES AND BUSINESS
COMMUNITY
OUR THEMES
The NIHR Brain Injury MIC is clinically-driven by the thirteen themes that span the brain injury patient pathway.
Our Themes & Theme Leads
- Prevention and Pre-Hospital – Professor Mark Wilson
- Neurocritical Care – Professor David Menon
- Multi-Modality Monitoring – Professor Peter Hutchinson
- Functional Neuroimaging and Neurophysiology – Professor Franklin Aigbirhio
- Neuro-oncology – Mr Stephen Price
- Regenerative Neuroscience – Dr Mark Kotter
- Paediatrics and Neuro-development – Professor David Rowitch & Professor Topun Austin
- Neurorehabilitation – Professor Valerie M Pomeroy
- Cognition and Mental Health – Professor Barbara J Sahakian
- Neuropsychological Rehabilitation – Dr Andrew Bateman
- Intracranial Pressure and Shunt Technology – Professor Marek Czosnyka & Dr Peter Smielewski
- Patient and Public Involvement – Professor Christi Deaton
- MedTech Regulation and Evaluation – Dr Peter Jarritt
- Clinical Informatics and Registries – Dr Alexis Joannides
- Internationalisation and Health Economics – Prof John Pickard
Funding Opportunities
1. Seedcorn funding competition
The Brain Injury Medtech Co-operative engages annually in seedcorn funding competitions and mentoring of young innovators – open to the whole of the UK – through small grants subject to rigorous independent review by our network of experts.
Priority in seedcorn funding is given to projects in line with unmet needs and desired outcomes identified by Patient and Carer representatives, within an approach that ensures that novel ideas and technologies are identified at an early stage and economic value identified and captured.
For more information, visit our seedcorn funding competition page.
2. Other funding opportunities
Visit our funding opportunities page to find out more about current funding opportunities from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), The Newton Fund, and many more