Minutes of the Invention for Innovation (i4i) programme subcommittee meeting to discuss Stage 1 applications to call 10 of the i4i Challenge Awards.
Date and location
Meeting held on Thursday 23 July 2020 via Zoom Virtual Meeting
In attendance
Funding Committee
Professor Nick Lemoine (Chair)
Ms Jo Smart (Deputy Chair)
i4i Secretariat
Mr Martin Hunt (Programme Director)
Dr Ruth Nebauer (Assistant Director)
Dr Diana Alexieva
Dr Samantha Gan
Dr Caterina Lombardo
Dr Ian Newington
Dr Sandra Nwokeoha
Dr Raffaella Roncone
Miss Lilian Tomlinson
Miss Aisha Wamala
Observers
Cordelia Davey (NIHR CCF)
Caroline de Winter (NIHR CCF)
Mrs Samantha Wade (NIHR CCF)
Stage 1 applications invited to submit to Stage 2
NIHR202162: Real World Implementation of PreSize Neurovascular: medical device software that allows pre-operative rehearsals of stenting surgeries to reduce complications
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR202157: REACH - Remote Easily Accessible Continence Help. Evaluation of real-world impact of a revised bowel-continence pathway with the Anisys system, in normal-practice-delivery by Salford Royal Trusl’s Bladder and Bowel team
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR202164: Using digital health to transform the management of long-term conditions in the NHS: Assessing real-world patient experience and empowerment and improvements to productivity and capacity
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR202158: Improving minimally invasive restoration of primary teeth in hospital and general practice using Renewal MI
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR202161: Real-world testing of software for measuring bone disease on whole-body MRI in patients with prostate cancer and myeloma
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR202163: Virtual 3D modelling for improved surgical planning
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
Stage 1 applications not invited to submit to Stage 2
NIHR202159: Evaluating the real-world implementation of a smartphone app to measure visual acuity in children remotely in a post-COVID NHS
Outcome: Reject
NIHR202156: Early Remote Identification of Neurodegeneration in memory services (ERIN)
Outcome: Reject
NIHR20215: An observational study of electrochemotherapy utilising the ePORE pulse generator. (PECS: Painless Electrochemotherapy Study)
Outcome: Reject
Stage 1 applications that did not fulfil the Programme’s eligibility criteria
NIHR202160: Point-of-Care 3D X-ray diagnostic for use in A&E to ascertain non-displaced fractures in extremities to be trialled at the Queen’s Medical Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh
Outcome: Reject