ACCELERATE Innovation Team Challenge funds additional interdisciplinary teams (2022)

Three additional teams have each been awarded up to 拢10k to help fund their original ideas to tackle healthcare challenges after taking part in a 7-week training programme.

ACCELERATE Innovation Team Challenge round two continues to support interdisciplinary teams with training and funding; we were able to fund an additional three projects (listed below). Teams not funded at this time are being supported with a coaching session to determine next steps for their project and professional development.

Round two funded projects:

Project 1: COOLNeo听- An affordable, portable, and auto-regulated cooling blanket for use in therapeutic hypothermia for new-borns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in low-to-middle-income countries. The team comprises a GP with paediatrics/neonatal experience, a product designer/materials engineer, and a medical informatician.听Team Members:听, 果冻影院 Institute of Health Informatics;听, 果冻影院 Division of Psychology and Language Sciences (PALS), 果冻影院 Department of Computer Science;听, 果冻影院 Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

Project 2: EMMA听- 鈥楨fficient Medical record Manager & Administration鈥� tool. EMMA is an innovative, web-based tool that will reduce administration time associated with clinical appointments and improve healthcare capacity in the NHS. The team comprises a consultant radiologist, an applied mathematician, and a vascular biologist.听Team Members:听Athina Dritsoula, 果冻影院 Institute of Ophthalmology;听, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, 果冻影院H;听, 果冻影院 Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

Project 3: Option -听A free, personalised nutrition support service for breast cancer patients to improve their personal wellbeing (). The team comprises an academic clinician, an epidemiologist, a trainee cardiothoracic surgeon, and a consultant nuclear medicine physician.听Team Members:听, 果冻影院 Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation;听, 果冻影院 Division of Surgery and Interventional Science;听, Centre for Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Diseases, 果冻影院 Division of Medicine;听, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, 果冻影院H.

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Three additional teams have each been awarded up to 拢10k to help fund their original ideas to tackle healthcare challenges after taking part in a 7-week training programme.

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ACCELERATE Innovation Team Challenge听round two continues to support interdisciplinary teams with training and funding; we were able to fund an additional three projects (listed below). Teams not funded at this time are being supported with a coaching session to determine next steps for their project and professional development.

Round two funded projects:

Reflections听from round two of the programme:

Main comments from participants on round two of the programme were that the Team Challenge was a great experience and opportunity to develop leadership, communication, and teamwork skills. They also commented that it was well organised, provided good support & training, and a great opportunity to establish new collaborations across multiple disciplines and career stages.听 One participant wrote:听鈥淵our work has changed my life and broadened my career options as a clinician-researcher who wants to make tangible, impactful changes for patients.鈥�

"Taking on feedback from round one participants, we tweaked the programme design to incorparate more flexibility. We were more flexible with the pace that teams were expected to move through the sessions. It is apparent from the strength of the teams' ideas and pitches/written proposals that this adjustment allowed the teams to work around their busy schedules and deliver very well thought out and impactful ideas while developing strong team bonds."~ Kim Gurwitz, ACCELERATE Manger, 果冻影院 Academic Careers Office.听

Update from round one participants:

We caught up with the teams from round one of the programme for a 6-month update on their progress and to hear their reflections on taking part in the Team Challenge. Participants commented on how they had engaged with various stakeholder groups, including holding focus groups with patients. They had also made use of expertise hubs at 果冻影院 for support such as the 果冻影院 Translational Research Office, 果冻影院 Public Engagement, and 果冻影院 Business.

See the below video for reflections on the experience of taking part in the Team Challenge:

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听To inspire the next generation of medical innovators, the Team Challenge participants were invited to share their experiences with undergraduate students from听果冻影院鈥檚 Medical Innovation and Enterprise BSc听(MIE). They did this by joining a panel that provided comments on draft pitches presented by students showcasing their coursework. The panellists asked the students about the important aspects of a pitch and translational ideas; these are lessons the panellists learned while participating in the Team Challenge.

鈥淚nput from the ACCELERATE organisers and the Team Challenge alumni was hugely important in reinforcing the students' understanding of key concepts in translational research. Having perspectives from an interdisciplinary group, including medics, basic scientists and healthcare workers, ensured that students received broad feedback on the aims of their projects and how they could be strengthened. The MIE faculty are very keen to repeat the exercise in future鈥�.听~ Dr John Counsell, Module Convenor, Medical Innovation and Enterprise BSC.

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