Sponsorship of the East Midlands Da Vinci Innovation Awards
NHS East Midlands sponsored the prestigious Clinical Impact Award as part of the 2010 Da Vinci awards which took place at Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park on Monday 22 March.
The ceremony was attended by 120 representatives from the East Midlands’ hospitals, universities, regional innovation partners and healthcare industries.
Guests were welcomed by Professor Shirley Pearce, Loughborough University’s Vice Chancellor and the evening was hosted by BBC East Midlands Today news presenter Anne Davies.
The key note speech on region’s clinical challenges was delivered by Malcolm Lowe Lauri, Chief Executive of the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.
The purpose of the Da Vinci Awards is to recognise collaborations between clinicians, researchers and industry to meet today's most clinical challenges.
These awards were established in memory of Professor Peter Smith, a Loughborough academic working at the forefront of health technology innovation.
Together with Tom Spyt a Cardiac Surgeon from the Glenfield Hospital, Peter founded the Da Vinci network in 2005 by to encourage Loughborough’s researchers to engage with Leicester’s clinicians to work together on new innovations to benefit patients. Today the Da Vinci network encourages collaboration throughout the East Midlands region.
A prize fund equivalent to £50,000 was awarded to three winning projects in the Clinical Impact, Breakthrough Technology and Newcomer categories, with three of a further six highly commended finalists receiving a funding, Intellectual Property and commercialisation support.
The 2010 Da Vinci Awards are sponsored by a number of public and private sector organisations with a keen interest in driving healthcare innovation in the region:
• East Midlands Healthcare and Bioscience iNet
• Harvey Ingram LLP
• IPSO Ventures
• Loughborough University
• NHS East Midlands
For further information about the Da Vinci network and awards please contact Anna Seddon, Telephone 01509 223445
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