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The Translate consortium of universities has published a Science and Innovation Audit, commissioned by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), to highlight investment opportunities for medical technologies. Government, industry and the NHS needs to invest between £200 million and £250 million in the Leeds City Region’s medical technology sector over the next […]
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Translate: Me – Innovation Bootcamp Transforming medtech researchers Monday 4th Wednesday 6th December 2017, Leeds Translate: Me – Innovation Bootcamp is a hands on, three-day residential workshop designed to empower Early Career Researchers and Postgraduate research students to innovate more effectively, navigating the complexities of getting ideas developed, adopted and spread throughout the NHS. Translate: […]
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Access Innovation is a new package of support available for small or medium sized enterprises to develop new products and processes, whereby specialist expertise can be accessed by teaming up with a research organisation. Support takes the form of one to one advice, specialist workshops and funding: 50% of the cost of purchasing the expertise, […]
Read more Translate: Me – Innovation Bootcamp is a hands on, three-day residential workshop designed to empower Early Career Researchers and Postgraduate research students to innovate more effectively, navigating the complexities of getting ideas developed, adopted and spread throughout the NHS.
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This session is designed for research staff and students with an interest in medical technologies innovation, looking to use social media professionally as an individual. The day will introduce participants to managing and raising their professional profile through the use of traditional and social media; and communicating research and its significance outside academia. In an era where we are globally connected through digital and social media, self-promotion is a skill that modern academics must develop to raise the profile of their research and gain maximum impact for their work.
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The NIHR Colorectal Therapies Healthcare Technology Cooperative (HTC) invites you our annual National Meeting on 26th September at Leeds Town Hall, the aim of the meeting is to benefit industry, clinicians, charities, academics and patient groups.
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In autumn 2015, the UK Government announced Science and Innovation Audits (SIAs) to catalyse a new approach to regional economic development. In the Leeds City Region, we focused on our strengths in medical technologies.
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In this short film, key leaders and participants in the programme describe how Translate is driving the development of new medical technologies in our region.
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Matching emerging technologies with growing markets The small, sensitive and low-cost silicon biosensor technologies being developed by Professor Thomas Krauss and his team at the University of York have the potential to transform personalised medicine – but in such a competitive field, being first to market is everything. Since the autumn of 2016, Translate has […]
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I am a PhD student at the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of York. I am exploring the applications of cutting edge technology like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Virtual Reality (VR) to improve healthcare, both diagnostics and rehabilitation aspects of medical procedures. The key aspect of the innovation relies on the style of walking (gait), which has been used by doctors and clinicians for decades, but in a very traditional and qualitative sense.
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From researcher to policy officer – Alexandra Smyth Current Organisation: University of Leeds Current Position: Post-Doctoral Researcher Secondment organisation: Translate Researcher in career crisis My name is Alexandra Smyth and I am currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher. I was a student in the final year of my PhD when I started panicking about my future career […]
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A secondment? The chance to access a unique experience – Dr Elena Mancuso Current Organisation: University of Leeds Current Position: Medical Technologies Research Fellow Secondment organisation: Medipex Expanding my current knowledge and professional network My name is Elena Mancuso and I am a Research Fellow within the IMPRESS (Incontinence-Management-and-Prevention-through-Engineering-and-Sciences) network at the University of Leeds. […]
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