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Invention for Innovation - Challenge Awards Call 10 Stage 1 Minutes

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Published: 23 July 2020

Version: v1.0 - August 2020

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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