Dr Laura Watson awarded share of over £3m new funding for medical technologies to tackle brain injury
Congratulations to our own metabolic physiologist, Dr Laura Watson. Laura has been awarded a share of £3m from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme: Predicting energy requirements in traumatic brain injury using 3D body shape app and indirect calorimetry.
Dr Laura Watson
Based in the NHIR Cambridge Clinical Research Facility, will work alongside Dr Alasdair Jubb. Dr Jubb is a consultant in neurosciences and trauma intensive care medicine and anaesthesia at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH).
What is I4I?
FAST is aimed at innovators in need of a small amount of funding to answer a specific question, or to fund a single piece of activity to advance healthcare technologies and interventions.
Invention for Innovation (i4i) (opens in a new tab) is: Funding At the Speed of Translation (FAST) 4 Awards supporting healthcare technologies to prevent, diagnose and manage acquired brain injuries (ABI), and recovery from ABI as a consequence of traumatic brain injury, stroke, tumours and infections.
Funded projects will help fill evidence gaps identified in the Concussion in Sport Research Forum’s report (opens in a new tab), published in September 2024.
The funding opportunity was developed in partnership with the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Injury (opens in a new tab) based at Addenbrooke’s and the Defence Medical Services. (opens in a new tab)
To read the full list of award winners, on the NIHR website- (external link)
NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Injury
Professor Peter Hutchinson
Professor Peter Hutchinson, director of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Injury said: “We are delighted to partner with the NIHR i4i Programme on this competitive FAST themed call, and have been impressed by the number of high quality applications received.
“This significant investment will make a real difference for patients and their families, unlocking the opportunity to further develop novel HealthTech and generating evidence to support the uptake of these innovations. Congratulations to all 35 awardees.”
To read more about the award winners, follow this link to CUH website.
