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Shaped in Sheffield, improving lives everywhere

A new technique to safely scan children’s lungs, an ambitious project to restore hearing loss and improving the employment rights for unpaid carers are just three projects shaped in Sheffield that are improving lives everywhere.
Stem cell deafness treatment

Pioneering partnership launched to ensure safety and accelerate life-changing stem cell therapies

The iSTAT (Investigating Safety and Toxicity of Advanced Therapies) project, led by Insigneo Research Theme Director Professor Ivana Barbaric, aims to accelerate the delivery of life-changing cell therapies by addressing critical safety hurdles.
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AI set to make medical scan reports twice as easy to understand for patients

Artificial intelligence could soon help patients make sense of complex medical scan results, making them far easier to understand without losing clinical accuracy, a major new study by the University of Sheffield suggests
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Insigneo/Sano Modelathon - ischaemic stroke computational modelling challenge

On Tuesday 13 January we had the pleasure of hosting the Insigneo/Sano Modelathon at the University of Sheffield’s Diamond Building, where teams of researchers spent three days competing in a computational modelling challenge.
Development, stem cells and regenerative medicine

New research aims to understand the 'molecular switches' behind cancer

A new £1 million research project, led by Insigneo Research Theme Director Professor Ivana Barbaric, could pave the way for new treatments for cancer and safer stem cell therapies for conditions like Parkinson's.
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Insigneo-led team awarded ARIA opportunity seed funding for fungal neural interfaces

An Insigneo-led team, headed by Dr Thomas Paterson, has received opportunity seed funding from the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) for a project titled Adapting Non-Pathogenic Fungal Networks Toward Next-Generation Neural Interfaces.
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Women's HealthTech Innovation Network launch

We were very proud to co-host the launch of the Women's HealthTech Innovation Network (WHIN) with the Devices for Dignity: The NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in long term conditions.
Professor John Newell-Price

New Clinical Research Director appointed at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Newell-Price, Honorary Consultant Physician at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Sheffield, has been appointed as the new Clinical Research Director.

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