Cyclops Grand Challenge Workshop
20-21st March 2017, Nottingham
On 20-21st March 2017 we held our Grand Challenge Workshop.
63 delegates attended, covering
- Academics from 17 universities, with expertise in a wide range of disciplines, from monitoring and measuring systems, to human factors to modelling and artificial intelligence
- 10 clinicians (4 NHS trusts) covering the clinical exemplar areas of wound care, cancer care and intensive care
- 2 patient representatives
- 4 commercial organisations
- other healthcare stakeholders
Together we explored the opportunities for closed loop control systems to optimise treatment and began developing ideas for feasibilty studies.
The call for proposals is now open!
Photo: David Lally*
Workshop overview
At the workshop delegates:
- Learned from clinicians what are the clinical needs for:
- Intensive care
- Chronic wound care
- Cancer care
- Found out the latest developments in technology and research for
- Monitoring devices
- Modelling
- Treatment
- Networked with people along the pathway to application, from academics and suppliers to clinicians and NHS managers
- Identified the opportunities for closed loop control systems and develop new collaborations to bid for feasibility studies
- Participants of the workshop may now bid for a share of the £300k funding.
Programme
From our keynote speaker, Maureen McCue, Head of Research and Technology - Aerospace at BAE Systems, to our clinical and technical overviews, the event programme is available below
Download programme
Schedule of key dates
| Deadline for application to workshop |
Closed (except for the groups listed above) |
| Workshop dates |
Mon 20th March 10:00 - Tues 21st March (finishing 14:00) 2017 |
| Deadline for submission of feasibility studies |
Monday 24th April 2017 |
*[CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons