Medical technology innovation in Yorkshire: translational funding opportunities
Event details
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Thursday 3 July 2025 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Description
Come to the University of Sheffield to find out how we work with medtech companies and how your business could benefit and innovate to compete in a changing market.
In collaboration with the University of Leeds, our Yorkshire Medtech EPSRC Place-Based Impact Acceleration Account funding is available to support the Yorkshire MedTech industry by bringing together researchers and businesses to translate university research into new clinical products and services.
Hear about successful partnerships and the impact on business development from industry partners including Daiser, GE HealthCare, Paxman, Eventum Orthopaedics, Abbot, VitriTech and a Sheffield biopolymer spin-out, PHaST.
Speak to our research and innovation support teams about how they can support your journey, provide insights and information to help you develop your ideas.
Find out more about the Insigneo Institute and tap into their expertise in biomedical imaging, healthcare data, computational modelling, and digital healthcare technologies.
Academics and clinicians, including representatives of our Yorkshire MedTech PBIAA partners from Leeds, will also be presenting and available for discussion.
Join us to network and meet fellow academics, industry colleagues and funders, make connections and start to build collaborations.
Networking Dinner: We are hosting a dinner at INOX Dine for the opportunity to carry on the conversations in a more informal setting, and meet other industry professionals and academics. Details on how to purchase a ticket will be sent to registered guests.
Who should attend: Industry leaders, including research managers, along with academics and healthcare professionals with an interest in technology innovation for human health and wellbeing.
Programme
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 09:00 | Registration and coffee |
| 09.30 | Introduction to the industry day. Professor Paul Hatton (Faculty Director for Research in Health and Yorkshire MedTech co-investigator, University of Sheffield) |
| 09.40 | Welcome. Professor Jim Wild (Co-Director for the Insigneo Institute, University of Sheffield) |
| Session 1: the benefits of industry-university-healthcare partnerships | |
| 10.00 | Industrial-academic-NHS partnership in digital health - Professor Tim Chico (University of Sheffield) and Mike Trenell (Daiser) |
| 10.20 | Collaboration in advanced medical imaging - Professor Jim Wild (University of Sheffield) and Professor Jan Wolber (GE Healthcare) |
| 10.40 | Innovation in cardiovascular devices - Professor Alex Rothman (University of Sheffield) and Emma Braithwaite (Abbott) |
| 11.00 | Break |
| Session 2: Innovation assets in South Yorkshire | |
| 11:30 | Introduction and chair – Professor Damien Lacroix (Co-Director for the Insigneo Institute, University of Sheffield) |
| 11:40 | Commercialisation and knowledge exchange in MedTech – Alex Wilkinson and Saqab Rasul (University of Sheffield) |
| 12:00 | Working with the AMRC in the medical and healthcare sector – Dr Charlie Appleby-Mallinder (AMRC) |
| 12:20 | The National Centre for Child Health Technology and the Sheffield Children’s Hospital - Professor Paul Dimitri (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust) |
| 12:30 | Panel Q&A on infrastructure and assets: all speakers |
| 13.00 | Lunch and stands |
| Session 3: Yorkshire MedTech - our EPSRC place-based impact accelerator | |
| 14.00 | Introduction to Yorkshire MedTech – a place-based impact accelerator for the region - Professor Ruth Wilcox (University of Leeds) |
| 14.15 | The benefits of academic-industrial collaboration in Yorkshire: development of cooling-based medical technologies for the prevention of severe side-effects of cancer chemotherapy treatment - Patrick Burke and Jane Clayton (Paxman Scalp Cooling) and Dr Nik Georgopoulos (Sheffield Hallam) |
| 14.35 | Medical applications for glasses. Professor Cheryl Miller (University of Sheffield) and Professor Ed Draper (VitriTech) |
| 14:55 | Research and innovation with Eventum Orthopaedics – Dr Alison Jones (University of Leeds) |
| 15:15 | PHaST: experience of spinning out a new company - Professor Ipsita Roy (University of Sheffield) |
| 15:35 | Planning to spin out new technologies for healthcare – Professor Christoph Walti (University of Leeds) |
| 15:55 | How to apply for funding support from Yorkshire MedTech – Professor Robert Kay (University of Leeds) |
| 16.10 | Panel Q&A: all speakers |
| 16.30 | Closing comments - Professor Ipsita Roy (University of Sheffield) |
