Minutes of the Invention for Innovation (i4i) programme Committee A Meeting to discuss applications to Product Development Awards (PDA) Competition 18 Stage 2.
Date and location
Meeting held on Tuesday 26 November 2019 at LGC Ltd, Grange House, 15 Church Street, Twickenham TW1 3NL.
In attendance
PDA Funding Committee A
Mr Mark Kirby (Chair)
Professor Paul Sibbons (Deputy Chair)
Ms Mary Anne Cordeiro
Mr Andy Ingram
Professor David Jayne
Dr Thomas Keeble
Dr Zahid Latif
Dr Mike Messenger
Professor James (Jimmy) Moore
Dr Julie Simmonds
Dr Andrew Sims
Ms Gail Thornton (Public Member)
Dr Gill Vivian
Dr Peter Watkinson
Dr Glen Wells
Mr Tim Wright
CCF i4i Secretariat
Mr Martin Hunt (Programme Director)
Mr Ben Patient (Director of Innovations)
Dr Ruth Nebauer (Assistant Director)
Dr Andrew Barber
Dr Emma Blamont
Dr Fanny Burrows
Mr Freddy Guenemi
Dr Chris Hill
Dr Katherine Horner
Mr Thomas Hutchinson
Dr Caterina Lombardo
Mrs Paula Milton
Dr Ian Newington
Dr Sandra Nwokeoha
Dr Raffaella Roncone
Mr Edwin Tucker
CCF Operations Team
Mr Bryan Dar
Miss Lilian Tomlinson
Observers
Mr Mark Campbell
Dr Sarah Markham
Apologies
Ms Alice Evans
Dr Eldrid Herrington (Public Member)
Dr Matthew Reeves
Dr Nicola Wesley (Observer)
Applications invited to present
1.1 NIHR200954: Selective brain cooling in acute encephalopathy
Conflict Funding Committee Member: Dr Eldrid Herrington
Funding Committee recommendation: Rejected
1.2 NIHR200989: Improving Patient Experience and Outcomes in Bowel Cancer Screening
Conflict Funding Committee Member: Dr Mike Messenger, Professor David Jayne
Funding Committee recommendation: Recommended for funding
1.3 NIHR200953: High Sensitivity Troponin Point of Care Test using Chemiluminescent Detection
Conflict Funding Committee Member: Dr Eldrid Herrington
Funding Committee recommendation: Rejected
1.4 NIHR200965: Development of a 'Case-Finding' Database to identify individuals at risk of liver and metabolic disease within the Somerset Liver Improvement Programme
Conflict Funding Committee Member: None
Funding Committee recommendation: Recommended for funding
1.5 NIHR200972: Detection of metastatic axillary sentinel lymph nodes using ultrafast, super-resolution, dual-contrast enhanced ultrasound imaging in patients with breast cancer
Conflict Funding Committee Member: Professor James (Jimmy) Moore
Funding Committee recommendation: Recommended for funding
1.6 NIHR200945: RanDx an affordable highly sensitive predictive test for breast cancer recurrence and metastasis
Conflict Funding Committee Member: Dr Mike Messenger, Professor David Jayne
Funding Committee recommendation: Rejected
1.7 NIHR200983: Development of RxSelex: A microbiome-based predictive diagnostic of IBD biologics treatment outcome
Conflict Funding Committee Member: Dr Andrew Sims, Dr Michael Messenger
Funding Committee recommendation: Recommended for funding