The East Of England The Future Of Medical Technologies
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The East of England is a major center for medical technologies and healthcare companies, contributing £500m annually to the economy. It is home to over 400 healthcare companies and 5,000 expert employees. The region contributes 25% of the UK's total R&D spending, three times the national average, and is a global leader in areas like drug delivery, medical materials, diagnostics and nanotechnology due to collaboration between its universities, hospitals, and industry partners. This document provides information on organizations and facilities supporting medical innovation through research, product development, and commercialization in the East of England region.
The East Of England The Future Of Medical Technologies
- 1. The East of England The future of medical technologies Home to 400 Excellence in healthcare drug delivery, companies, medical materials, contributing £500m diagnostics and to the economy nanotechnology With 5,000 expert employees and 12,000 graduates in key disciplines annually Cambridge Design Partnership Cambridge Consultants The East of England: The East of England: Astron Clinica’s skin cancer-detecting G Contributes 25% of UK R&D spend – SIAscope system, designed by Cambridge Design Partnership; over three times the national average women’s health consumer diagnostics from Unipath, including G Part of the Greater South East – the the Clearblue and Persona brands; world-leading integrated 10th largest economy in the world G Home to London Stansted – with more diabetes management systems and neuromodulation from daily flights to Europe than any other Medtronic; state-of-the-art ventilators from Spacelabs; the airport worldwide gold-standard Mini-Wright asthma management range from Clement Clarke International HI-TECH CONVERGENCE Ideas from the best minds in biotech, nanotech and IT fuse to produce world-changing technology. Examples include: Cambridge Consultants’ Vena™ platform – a software solution on a single chip enabling medical devices to transmit data wirelessly. Sphere Medical’s novel microchip technology – for real-time analysis of therapeutic drugs and blood chemistry in critically ill patients. Owlstone’s FAIMS technology – a breakthrough silicon sensor that can be reprogrammed to detect a wide range of airborne or dissolved chemical Business support funded by the analytes in extremely small quantities – chemicals in a patient’s breath can East of England Development Agency play a vital role in the non-invasive diagnosis of disease. www.eei-online.com/lifesciences
- 2. Tap into our region’s R&D Anglia Ruskin University’s Bioengineering Research Group – working in collaboration with the medical industry and hospitals, bridging the gap between engineering and medicine. Cambridge University’s Centre for Medical Materials – researching skeletal implants; medical prostheses and devices; drug delivery systems; tissue engineering; bio ceramics and bioceramic/bioactive coatings and resorbable and stable polymers for implantation. Sphere Medical’s disposable microanalyser technology – for Cranfield University – focussing on bioinformatics; biosensors and real-time analysis of therapeutic diagnostics; environment and health; food quality; healthcare operations drugs and blood chemistry in management; smart materials and translational medicines. critically ill patients Essex University – researching human-computer interfacing to understand how specific brainwave patterns can be used to generate robot commands, with dramatic potential in areas such as prosthesis control for the disabled. Hertfordshire University’s BioPark – providing an R&D centre for bioscience and health technology business tenants, ensuring strong links between academia and industry. University of East Anglia – investigating chemical biosensors for molecular recognition and the analytical methods for characterising them. R&D Consultancies – contributing £20 million to the economy in this sector alone. Around 20 consultancies operate in the sector in the East of England, including PA Consulting, Cambridge Consultants, The Technology Partnership and Sagentia. Thinking of setting Be supported by leading up a UK business? industry networks EEI’s commercially-focused ERBI – Europe’s leading biomedical technology industry group, Business Development Managers incorporating ERBI Medtech. ERBI has over 400 East of England members will use their sector knowledge and as well as a significant number overseas. Services include networking connections for your benefit. events, special interest groups, training, partnering and member promotion and information. Let us: G Provide you with specialist local Healthcare Technologies Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) – a UK sector knowledge government-sponsored initiative to accelerate the exploitation of the UK’s G Quickly identify technology knowledge base in Medtech. The Network communicates the sector’s partners strategic needs to government and develops new partnerships to stimulate G Align you with key academic innovation. Network members include representatives from industry, contacts academia and the clinical base. Events facilitate knowledge transfer G Embed you in the supply chain between businesses and industry and academia. G Put you in touch with business service providers Health Enterprise East (HEE) – part of the national NHS Innovation Hubs G Find you appropriate premises and East of England Enterprise Hub Networks. HEE supports the private G Help source expert staff and public healthcare sectors and helps companies engage with clinical expertise in the NHS. The NHS spends £6 billion on medical devices Our services are free annually and through HEE companies can gain help with clinical evaluation and confidential of new devices, access to NHS expertise and licensing opportunities: new medical devices, therapies and software developed by NHS staff. For expert help contact: East of England International 2 Quayside Cambridge CB5 8AB United Kingdom T: +44 (0)1223 450 450 E: [email protected] www.eei-online.com/lifesciences 09/79 Copyright October 2009