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