Invention for Innovation - Product Development Awards Interim Committee

The funding committees for the NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme are multidisciplinary, comprising academic, clinical and commercial experts, as well as patient and public members. i4i has four committees: three for Product Development Awards (committee A, committee B and committee C), and one for Connect. i4i also has an Interim Committee.

Committee Members - Product Development Awards Interim Committee 

• Dr Saif Ahmad
  • CSO/CMO, 52 North Health

• Dr Ahran Arnold
  
  • Clinical Senior Lecturer in Cardiology, Imperial College London
    

• Dr James Avery
  
  • Lecturer in Robotics and Embedded Computer Systems Engineering, University of Leeds

• Professor Siddharth Banka
  
  • Appraiser, Mentor and Emeritus Consultant, University of Manchester

• Dr Dan Blackburn
  
  • Senior Lecturer and Consultant Neurologist, University of Sheffield

• Dr Chris Bowers
  
  • Principal Lecturer in Computing, University of Worcester

• Dr Anthony Bradlow
  
  • Professor of Genomic Medicine and Rare Diseases, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

• Dr Catherine Breslin
  • Head of Industry Engagement & Commercialisation, University of Strathclyde

• Dr Jehangir Cama
  • Co-Founder, ArtioSense Limited; BioTryp Therapeutics; University of Cambridge

• Professor Yongqiang Cheng
  • Professor of AI, University of Sunderland

• Professor Vasa Curcin
  • Professor of Health Informatics, Department of Population Health Sciences, King's College London

• Professor Alun Davies
  • Professor of vascular surgery , Imperial College London, Charing Cross and St Mary's hospitals

• Professor Jo Dumville
  • Professor of Applied Health Research, University of Manchester
• Dr Fiona Ellis
  • Clinical Psychologist, Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust; University of East Anglia

• Professor Stefano Fedele
  • Professor of Oral Medicine, UCL Eastman Dental Institute

• Dr Theofanis Fotis
  • Reader, University of Brighton

• Dr Ahmed Gendia
  • Specialty Trainee, Colorectal and General Surgery, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

• Mr Martin Gossling
  • Head of Commercial Innovation, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

• Dr Hui Guo
  • Reader in Biostatistics, University of Manchester

• Dr Gordon Hendry
  • Reader in Musculoskeletal Health, Glasgow Caledonian University

• Professor Carl Heneghan
  • Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, Director of Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Dept. of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford

• Professor Peter Hoskin
  • Professor of Clinical Oncology, Cancer Research UK Manchester Centre

• Professor Prashant Jha
  • Professor of MedTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship, King's College London

• Professor Pearse Keane
  • Professor of Artificial Medical Intelligence,University College London

• Dr Anthony Kong
  • Reader and Honorary Consultant Clinical Oncologist, King's College London

• Professor Gregory Lip
  • Price-Evans Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Liverpool

• Professor Yang Liu
  • Associate Professor of Dynamics and Control, University of Exeter

• Dr Dafydd Loughran
  • Co-founder and CEO, Concentric Health

• Professor Guy MacGowan
  • Consultant Cardiologist, Honorary Professor in Heart Failure, Newcastle University and Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• Mrs Maria Mackay
  • Senior Commercial Advisor, Health Innovation East

• Mrs Neesa Mangalaparathy
  • Senior Solutions Manager, UCLPartners

• Dr Richard Moakes
  • Lecturer in Healthcare Materials, University of Birmingham

• Professor Paul Moss
  • Professor of Haematology, University of Birmingham

• Professor William Newman
  • Principal Investigator, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine at the University of Manchester

• Dr Melody Ni
  • Senior methodologist within the NIHR-London In Vitro Diagnostics Co-operative, NIHR HeathTech Research Centre in In Vitro Diagnostics, Imperial College London

• Dr John Ong
  • Clinical Lecturer in Hepatology, University of Cambridge

• Dr David Pang
  • Consultant in Pain Management, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

• Mr Julian Patel
  • Associate Director – Innovation Partnerships & Business Development, Health Innovation East Midlands

• Dr Carlos Martinez-Perez
  • Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh

• Dr Bernd Porr
  • Senior Lecturer, Biomedical Engineering, University of Glasgow

• Dr Claire Rosten
  • Innovation Manager, Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex

• Dr Dermot Ryan
  • Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, The University of Edinburgh

• Dr David Shields
  • Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

• Dr Francesco Luke Siena
  • Senior Lecturer In Product Design, Nottingham Trent University

• Mrs Lesley Soden
  • Director, Succoris Ltd

•  Mr Mark Otto Smith
  • Commercial and Digital Health Advisor, Independent Consultancy

• Dr Joop Tanis
  • Director of MedTech Consulting, Health Tech Enterprise

• Mrs Jane Theaker
  • CEO, PbD Biotech Ltd

• Professor Neil Vaughan
  • Associate Professor of Data Science and AI, University of Exeter

• Professor Ed Watkins
  • Professor of Experimental and Applied Clinical Psychology, University of Exeter

• Mr Arne Wolters
  • Implementation Lead (NIHR ARC); Head of Improvement Analytics (CNTW), NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria; Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW

• Professor David Wong
  • Associate Professor of Health Data Science and Health Informatics, University of Leeds

• Professor Shane Xie
  • Chair in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, University of Leeds

• Professor Yingjie Yang
  • Professor of Computational Intelligence, De Montfort University

• Professor Massoud Zolgharni
  • Professor of Computer Vision, University of West London