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Invention for Innovation – PDA Call 19 Stage 2 Minutes

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Published: 27 July 2020

Version: 1 - July 2020

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Minutes of the Invention for Innovation (i4i) programme Committee A meeting to discuss applications to Product Development Awards (PDA) Competition 19 Stage 2.

Date and location

Meeting held Tuesday 16 June 2020 via Zoom Virtual Meeting.

In attendance

Funding Committee A members

Mr Mark Kirby (Chair)

Professor Paul Sibbons (Deputy Chair) 

Ms Mary Anne Cordeiro

Ms Alice Evans

Dr Eldrid (Ellie) Herrington (Public Member)

Mr Andy Ingram

Professor David Jayne

Dr Thomas Keeble

Dr Zahid Latif

Professor James (Jimmy) Moore

Dr Matthew Reeves

Dr Julie Simmonds

Dr Andrew Sims

Dr Gill Vivian

Dr Peter Watkinson

Mr Tim Wright

NIHR CCF i4i Secretariat

Mr Martin Hunt (Programme Director)

Mr Ben Patient (Director of Innovations)

Dr Ruth Nebauer (Assistant Director)

Dr Diana Alexieva

Dr Andrew Barber 

Dr Fanny Burrows

Dr Sultana Choudhry

Miss Alice Duboin 

Dr Samantha Gan

Dr Aayesha Hassan 

Dr Caterina Lombardo

Miss Deimante Normantaite

Dr Sandra Nwokeoha

Mr Edwin Tucker

NIHR CCF Operations Team

Mr Bryan Dar

Mrs Samantha Wade

Apologies

Dr Glenn Wells

Dr Mike Messenger

Miss Aisha Wamala

Observers

Miss Ludy Hills

Miss Cordelia Davey

Miss Caroline De Winter

Miss Anneke van de Stege

Applications invited to present 

NIHR201641: A Novel Mitral Valve for Transcatheter Implantation
Conflict Funding Committee Member:
Dr Matthew Reeves, Dr Ellie Herrington
Funding Committee recommendation: Reject

NIHR201655: “CEeDD: “A First-in-Human Clinical Investigation of Cavitation-Enhanced Drug Delivery to Solid Tumours by co-Administration of Sonosensitive Particles and Application of Extracorporeal Ultrasound in  Patients with Colorectal Metastases to the Liver”
Conflict Funding Committee Member:
Dr Glenn Wells, Dr Peter Watkinson
Funding Committee recommendation: Recommend for funding

NIHR201645: Rapid, Sensitive Detection of Resistance to Therapeutic Antibodies Product Development
Conflict Funding Committee Member:
Dr Ellie Herrington
Funding Committee recommendation: Recommend for funding

NIHR201677: Refining breast cancer diagnosis and prognosis using artificial intelligence (AI) to solve diagnostic bottleneck and improve patients’ care
Conflict Funding Committee Member:
Dr Glenn Wells, Dr Peter Watkinson
Funding Committee recommendation: Reject

NIHR201651: Prediction of Atrial Fibrillation using P-wave characteristics – Development of a module for integration into commercially available remote monitoring devices
Conflict Funding Committee Member: Dr Julie Simmonds, Dr Peter Watkinson
Funding Committee recommendation: Reject

NIHR201642: A new therapy for post-stroke arm spasticity: Sheffield Adaptive Patterned Electrical Stimulation (SHAPES) - a co-designed system improvement followed by a powered multi-arm randomised control trial
Conflict Funding Committee Member:
None
Funding Committee recommendation: Recommend for funding

NIHR201629: The development of a CHATBOT to support successful transition to adult care of young people with type 1 diabetes mellitus
Conflict Funding Committee Member:
Dr Mike  Messenger, Professor David Jayne, Mr Peter Webster
Funding Committee recommendation: Recommend for funding

NIHR201688: ChromaDose: In-vitro diagnostic device development and validation, enabling point-of-care therapeutic drug monitoring for dose optimisation of anthracycline chemotherapy in paediatric cancer settings
Conflict Funding Committee Member:
Dr Mathew Reeves, Dr Andrew Sims
Funding Committee recommendation: Support