Minutes of the Artificial Intelligence Health & Care Award Funding Panel Meeting the Competition 1, Phase 2, Stage 2
Date and Location
Day 1 - Tuesday 23 June 2020
Day 2 - Wednesday 24 June 2020
Virtual meeting using Zoom.
In attendance
Funding Panel Members
Mr Michael Garrison (Chair)
Ms Emma Palmer Foster (Deputy Chair)
Dr Ayokunmi Ajetunmobi
Dr Owen Arthurs
Professor Payam Barnaghi
Dr Matthew Blackledge
Professor Jim Briggs
Dr Rhodri Davies
Mr Stephen Edgar
Ms Helen George
Dr Hugh Harvey
Professor David Hogg
Mr Manish Patel
Dr Kam Pooni
Dr Frank Ratcliff
Dr Matt Williams
AI PMO Secretariat
Mr Martin Hunt (Programme Director)
Dr Andrew Barber
Dr Emma Blamont
Dr Fanny Burrows
Dr Emma Blamont
Dr Fanny Burrows
Dr Samantha Gan
Dr Caterina Lombardo
Dr Ian Newington
Miss Deimante Normantaite
Operations Team
Mr Krishna Kothandapani
Miss Joanna Robottom
Ms Anneke van de Stege
Mrs Samantha Wade
Applications invited to present at Stage 2
AI_AWARD01646: BioEP: From prototype to clinical evaluation
Conflict Funding Panel Member: Dr Hugh Harvey
Funding Panel recommendation: Support
AI_AWARD01692: AVERT – AI Virtual Environment for crisis Risk Tracking and prediction
Conflict Funding Panel Member: Dr Rhodri Davies
Funding Panel recommendation: Reject
AI_AWARD01785: Supporting self-management of respiratory illness using AI (RespAIr)
Conflict Funding Panel Member: None
Funding Panel recommendation: Reject
AI_AWARD01852: Autonomous Telemedicine - Cataract Surgery Follow-up at Two NHS Trusts
Conflict Funding Panel Member: Dr Ayokunmi Ajetunmobi, Mr Manish Patel, Dr Frank Ratcliff
Funding Panel recommendation: Support
AI_AWARD01869: Clinical validation of the AI Clinician decision support system for sepsis treatment
Conflict Funding Panel Member: Professor David Hogg, Dr Matthew Williams, Mr Manish Patel, Professor Payam Barnaghi, Mr Matthew Blackledge
Funding Panel recommendation: Support
AI_AWARD01932: FORE AI
Conflict Funding Panel Member: Dr Hugh Harvey
Funding Panel recommendation: Support
AI_AWARD01970: Diagnostic accuracy and efficiency gain with AI-enabled automated echocardiogram interpretation
Conflict Funding Panel Member: None
Funding Panel recommendation: Reject
AI_AWARD02013: Artificial Intelligence to improve Cardiometabolic Risk Evaluation using CT (ACRE-CT)
Conflict Funding Panel Member: Professor David Hogg, Dr Ayokunmi Ajetunmobi, Dr Frank Ratcliff
Funding Panel recommendation: Support
AI_AWARD01671: Dem Dx Triage Support Platform for Ophthalmology Referrals
Conflict Funding Panel Member: None
Funding Panel recommendation: Support
AI_AWARD01706: Interactively trained ‘human-in-the-loop’ deep learning approach to improve cardiac CT and MRI assessment for accurate therapy response and mortality prediction
Conflict Funding Panel Member: Dr Rhodri Davies, Dr Matthew Williams, Mr Manish Patel
Funding Panel recommendation: Support
AI_AWARD01786: Digitally adapted, hyper-local realtime bed forecasting to manage flow for NHS wards
Conflict Funding Panel Member: Dr Rhodri Davies, Dr Owen Arthurs, Dr Hugh Harvey
Funding Panel recommendation: Support
AI_AWARD01864: Natural language processing for real-time data capture in electronic health records to improve clinical care and operational efficiency
Conflict Funding Panel Member: Professor Payam Professor Payam Barnaghi, Dr Owen Arthurs
Funding Panel recommendation: Support
AI_AWARD01943: SMARTT Critical Care Pathways - (Safe, Machine Assisted, Real Time Transfer) An artificial intelligence based decision support tool to enable safer and more timely critical care transfer
Conflict Funding Panel Member: Professor David Hogg, Professor Payam Barnaghi, Dr Kam Pooni.
Funding Panel recommendation: Support
AI_AWARD01983: Responsible AI for remote, rapid, cost-effective and accurate blood testing and analytics for vulnerable patients
Conflict Funding Panel Member: Dr Frank Ratcliff, Dr Ayokunmi Ajetunmobi
Funding Panel recommendation: Reject
AI_AWARD02005: Prediction and prevention of Asthma attacks in Children
Conflict Funding Panel Member: Dr Ayokunmi Ajetunmobi, Mr Manish Patel, Dr Frank Ratcliff
Funding Panel recommendation: Support
AI_AWARD02031: Developing LifeLight: A contactless vital signs monitor for CVD screening
Conflict Funding Panel Member: Professor Jim Briggs, Dr Kam Pooni, Dr Frank Ratcliff
Funding Panel recommendation: Support
AI_AWARD02066: AccuRate, fast, data effiCient And interpretable glaucoma DIagnosis to Avoid preventable blindness in UK (Arcadia-UK)
Conflict Funding Panel Member: None
Funding Panel recommendation: Reject