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 Fitbit, 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 (Sheffield) & Professor Cathy Speed (FitBit) |
| 10.20 | Collaboration in Advanced Medical Imaging - Professor Jim Wild (Sheffield) and Professor Jan Wolber (GE Healthcare) |
| 10.40 | Innovation in Cardiovascular Devices - Alex Rothman (Sheffield) and Abbott |
| 11.00 | Break |
| Session 2: Innovation assets in South Yorkshire | |
| 11:30 | Introduction & Chair – Professor Damien Lacroix |
| 11:40 | Commercialisation and Knowledge Exchange in MedTech – Alex Wilkinson & Saqab Rasul |
| 12:00 | Working with the Medical AMRC – Dr Charlie Appleby-Mallinder |
| 12:20 | The National Centre for Child Health Technology and the Sheffield Children’s Hospital - Professor Paul Dimitri |
| 12:30 | Panel Q&A on Infrastructure & 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 - Ruth Wilcox (University of Leeds) |
| 14.25 | The Benefits of Academic-Industrial collaboration in Yorkshire: Tissue cooling technologies in cancer care - Dr Patrick Burke (Paxman Scalp Cooling) |
| 14.45 | Medical applications for glasses. Professor Cheryl Miller (Sheffield) and Professor Ed Draper (VitriTech) |
| 15.05 | Research & Innovation with Eventum Orthopaedics – Dr Alison Jones |
| 15.25 | PHaST: Experience of spinning out a new company - Professor Ipsita Roy (Sheffield) |
| 15.45 | Planning to spin out new technologies for healthcare – Professor Christoph Walti (Leeds) |
| 16.05 | How to apply for funding support from Yorkshire MedTech – Simone Wilkes |
| 16.20 | Panel Q&A |
| 16.35 | Closing comments - Professor Robert Kay (Leeds) and Professor Ipsita Roy (Sheffield) |
