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Sir Andrew Cahn
Chief Executive of UK Trade & Investment
Sir Andrew Cahn
Chief Executive of UK Trade & Investment
Health Innovation News
Social entrepreneurs in residence
New NHS White Paper launched
The UK health secretary Andrew Lansley has launched an NHS White Paper in which the concept of ‘social entrepreneurs in residence’ is described as an innovative solution to issues of funding and access in health provision. It will form part of the government’s ‘big society’. Simply put, Social Entrepreneurs in Residence (SEiRs) scout for potential entrepreneurs and new... Read and Comment
New ways to tackle viruses discovered
Scientists have discovered a new way to prevent viruses growing
Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have discovered innovative ways to tackle viruses, through making infection sites less hospitable, and by controlling protein networks to prevent viruses growing. Instead of attacking viruses themselves, the researchers found that by altering the conditions which viruses need to survive and multiply, they could increase the effectiveness of antiviral drugs.... Read and Comment
O2 Health launches Wii fit-style trials
Home rehabilitation by O2 Health
NHS East Berkshire is to trial technology to allow patients to carry out rehabilitation exercises at home without needing to see a physiotherapist, as part of the launch of O2 Health. The technology will allow patients to return home and carry out pre-determined rehabilitation programmes shown on a TV screen and have their progress monitored remotely via movement sensors. Data will be captured and... Read and CommentInnovation Blog
Research with enterprise
The Royal Society may be celebrating its 350th birthday, but, says Michael Kenward, its new fund to commercialise research shows that the UK's leading scientific academy can still come up with new tricks.
It would be hard to miss the media blitz surrounding the 350th anniversary of the UK’s leading scientific academy, the Royal Society, but one of its newer activities is playing it low key. Now just two years old, the Royal Society Enterprise Fund is quietly conducting its own experiment in how to fund innovation that is struggling to escape from the laboratory into the market place. It made its... Read and Comment
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