The patent application filed by Belfast Health and Social Care Trust to protect its rapid meningitis diagnostic has been granted in the USA. Granted patent US8465927 – Detection of Neisseria meningitidis by loop mediated isothermal amplification – is licensed exclusively to HiberGene Diagnostics Ltd, a rapid molecular diagnostics company, for its meningococcal diagnostic.
Read more ...Three awards for students and researchers working in medical engineering are again open for entries.
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An initiative emerging from the Western Health and Social Care Trust has reached the final stage of the £25k Awards administered by the Northern Ireland Science Park’s CONNECT programme. Digitease is based around outcomes from research and development to measure stiffness and lack of movement in human joints.
Read more ...Entries to the IET Healthcare Technologies Innovation Award category are welcomed from academic, industrial, clinical, consulting and service organisations which have developed or demonstrated innovative technology in healthcare enabling technology or applications, or for the innovative use of existing technology in health management for assisted living, with for instance, innovations addressing the aging agenda or global health challenges.
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The annual £25k Awards business plan competition is once again open for entries from HSC trusts. There is £25,000 in prizes across four categories. The competition is open to researchers in HSC trusts, who should contact HSC Innovations for further information.
Read more ...Northern Ireland is to contribute funds to the National Institute for Health Research so that Northern Ireland researchers may compete in a number of NIHR programmes: Health Technology Assessment, Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, Public Health Research Programme, Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme.
Read more ...Three awards for students and researchers working in medical engineering are now open for entries.
Read more ...HSC Innovations is on the move. From July 2012 our postal address will have changed.
Read more ...The IET Innovation Awards, including a healthcare technologies category, are now open for entries. Administered by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), this competition provides a great opportunity to showcase emerging innovations.
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The £25k Awards competition, administered by the CONNECT programme in the Northern Ireland Science Park, is open to researchers in HSC trusts. The contest is a commercial educational experience designed to encourage researchers and individuals to act on their talents, ideas and energy to produce tomorrow’s leading commercial opportunities.
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