AwardInnovationPartnership Novel pilot ideas in Surgery & Technology
Seven projects will receive pilot funding as part of the annual project call held by the NIHR Imperial BRC Surgery & Technology Theme.
The annual call for pilot project proposals aims to support early career investigators (post-docs, lecturers, fellows or equivalent) to develop novel ideas focused on improving the quality and safety of the surgical care pathway through technological innovations. These 6-month high-risk, multi-disciplinary projects will receive up to £10,000 each to ‘pump-prime’ and translate innovations across all surgical specialties within the BRC Surgery & Technology Theme. 19 applications were received and a selection panel consisting of internal and external reviewers, chose the following projects for this year’s cohort:
| PI | Project title |
| Matina (Stamatia) Giannarou | Enhanced Mixed Reality Visualisation for Intraoperative Navigation in Surgical Oncology |
| George Mylonas | Platform development for shape sensing in soft robotics with electrical impedance tomography |
| James Avery | Towards implantable oxygenation sensors for advanced tumour response monitoring |
| Piers Boshier | Study of skeletal Muscle and Adipose Tissues by computerised tomography in Intestinal Cancer (SOMATIC) |
| Alex Thompson | Towards development of wearable fluorescence sensors for non-invasive quantification of intestinal permeability |
| Sheraz R Markar | Assessment of chest wall motion following surgery for oesophageal cancer |
| Salzitsa Anastasova-Ivanova | Smart fish hook biosensor for precise and advanced tumour response monitoring |
You can read about a recent output from this scheme in this article.
