Cookies on this website
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click 'Continue' we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you won't see this message again. Click 'Find out more' for information on how to change your cookie settings.

£1.24 million for new medical diagnostics hub

  • General
  • Innovation
  • Research

University of Oxford researchers have been awarded £1.24 million to lead a medical diagnostics co-operative that will drive forward the development, evaluation and uptake of new medical diagnostic technologies to improve outcomes for patients in the community.

Medical diagnostics hun

Image courtesy of Shutterstock

Funded for five years by the National Institute for Health Research, the NIHR Community Healthcare MedTech and In vitro diagnostics Co-operative (MIC) will partner with commercial medical technology developers to ensure new concepts are rigorously evaluated, applicable in the NHS and have far-reaching clinical benefit.

It is one of 11 newly funded NIHR Medtech and In vitro diagnostic cooperatives announced last week by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to coincide with the publication of the Life Science Industrial Strategy.

 

Read more....