Calling all health and life science innovators.
The University of Leicester has funding opportunities available for industry/academic collaborations, including for knowledge exchange meetings and research projects across three research councils (BBSRC, MRC, ESRC). Join us to grow your ambition and networks. Innovators are welcome to showcase their work on a free stall – email iph@le.ac.uk for further information.
This is a FREE event which will bring together academics, clinicians, businesses and funders to showcase how the University of Leicester and Leicester Academic Health Partners enable health innovation using proof-of-concept funding throughout the pipeline of basic research through to clinical implementation. The first half of the day will focus on academic research collaborations, and the second half of the day will focus on driving those collaborations into NHS research partnerships. We will have a mix of University business teams, funders, and innovators on hand to talk to throughout the day.
Agenda
09.00 – 09.45 Registration, stall set-up and networking
09.45 – 10.00 Introduction and Welcome to the day + funding landscape. Prof Don Jones
10.00 – 10.05 Introduction from Will Wells – Working with the University
10.05 – 10.20 Medilink Midlands – Partnership working
10.20 – 10.30 Introduction to the Institute for Structural and Chemical Biology – Prof John Schwabe
10.30 – 10.45 Prof Geerten Vuister (BBSRC – Omnium AI collaboration)
10.45 – 11.00 Dr Harvinder Virk (joint BBSRC/MRC Only Good Antibodies collaborative)
11.00 – 11.30 Break and networking
11.30 – 11.40 Introduction to the Institute for Precision Health – Prof Chris Brightling
11.40 – 11.55 Prof Martin Dyer – Personalised cancer medicine using bispecific antibody constructs (MRC – Isogenica collaboration)
11.55 – 12.10 Dr Natalie Garton (MRC – Cytecom collaboration)
12.10 – 12.25 Dr Mervyn Thomas (MRC – Bulbitech collaboration)
12.25 – 13.25 Lunch and networking
13.25 – 13.40 Health Innovation East Midlands: supporting the adoption of Innovation
13.40 – 13.55 Dr Wen Wang (ESRC – Healthcare Professionals collaboration)
13.55 – 14.05 Introduction to Leicester Academic Health Partners – Prof Nigel Brunskill
14.05 – 14.20 Dr Ruw Abeyratne – Datasets for Health Inequalities
14.20 – 14.35 Dr Lizelle Bernhardt – Cardio-Respiratory Rehabilitation in Multi-Morbid Patients.
14.35 – 14.45 Accessing Funding and Partnership Opportunities – Will Wells
14.45 – 15.00 End of talks – intro to open discussion session. Prof Don Jones
15:00 – 16:00 Stakeholder business development planning
16:00 CLOSE
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