Two medical applied sciences tackling mind damage from Addenbrooke’s Hospital, a part of Cambridge College Hospitals NHS Basis Belief, have acquired a share of £3 million in funding.
They’re amongst 35 initiatives Nationwide Institute for Well being and Care Analysis (NIHR) is funding by the Invention for Innovation (i4i) Funding On the Pace of Translation (FAST) 4 Awards.
The awards help healthcare applied sciences to forestall, diagnose and handle acquired mind accidents (ABI) and restoration from ABI attributable to traumatic mind damage, stroke, tumours and infections.
One of many initiatives is ‘Integration of interactive and passive motion assessments into an app for delicate traumatic mind damage (I’m mind conscious – Movemed)’ from Dr Virginia Newcombe, a Royal Faculty of Emergency Drugs professor and tutorial advisor in neurosciences and trauma intensive care medication and emergency medication at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
Newcombe, mentioned: “I’m delighted that this funding will allow us to increase the app I’m creating as a part of my NIHR Rosetrees Belief Superior Fellowship to incorporate evaluation of motion and coordination.
“Psychomotor slowing is a key concern following traumatic mind damage, and this improvement will assist us higher perceive and monitor sufferers’ restoration.”
Psychomotor slowing refers to a noticeable slowing down of psychological and bodily exercise which might manifest as slowness in speech, pondering, and physique actions.
One other winner is Dr Laura Watson, a metabolic physiologist based mostly within the NIHR Cambridge Scientific Analysis Facility at Addenbrooke’s, whose challenge known as: “Predicting power necessities in traumatic mind damage utilizing 3D physique form app and oblique calorimetry.”
The funding alternative was developed in partnership with NIHR HealthTech Analysis Centre in Mind Damage based mostly at Addenbrooke’s and the Defence Medical Companies.
Professor Peter Hutchinson, director of the NIHR HealthTech Analysis Centre in Mind Damage, mentioned: “We’re delighted to associate with the NIHR i4i Programme on this aggressive FAST themed name, and have been impressed by the variety of high-quality purposes acquired.
“This important funding will make an actual distinction for sufferers and their households, unlocking the chance to additional develop novel HealthTech and producing proof to help the uptake of those improvements. Congratulations to all 35 awardees.”
FAST is geared toward innovators in want of a small quantity of funding to reply a selected query, or to fund a single piece of exercise to advance healthcare applied sciences and interventions.
In the meantime, in April 2025, Cambridge College Hospitals NHS Basis Belief built-in a scientific video administration service with its Epic digital affected person file system.
The vCreate service was deployed on 1 April 2025 for the administration of scientific movies, photographs and supporting information.
It permits sufferers and clinicians to add, share and retailer limitless movies and pictures, with the intention of enabling speedy precision diagnostics and extra environment friendly scientific decision-making.
