The funding committees for the NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme are multidisciplinary, comprising academic, clinical and commercial experts, as well as patient and public members. i4i has five committees: three for Product Development Awards (committee A, committee B and committee C), one for Challenge Awards, and one for Connect.
Committee members - Product Development Awards Selection Committee A
Name | Position | Organisation | Expertise |
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Ms Emma Palmer Foster (Chair) | Healthcare Consultant | EJ Palmer Consulting | Ms Palmer Foster has 30 years experience in life sciences investment banking, venture capital, investor relations, technology transfer and journalism. |
Professor Paul Sibbons (Deputy Chair) | Independent pre-clinical Consultant | Independent Consultant |
Professor Sibbons has extensive experience in pre-clinical surgery, pathology, evaluation and interpretation.
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Professor Clive Buckberry |
Co-founder and Fellow of Engineering |
Quanta Dialysis Technologies |
Professor Buckberry is a mechanical engineer by background and has experience in technology development, clinical evaluation and implementation.
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Mr Ravi Chana | Head of Business Development |
Roche Diagnostics UK Limited |
Mr Chana has a broad range of expertise in business development, market access, health economics, medtech commercialisation and value based healthcare. |
Ms Mary Anne Cordeiro | Consultant to life science businesses | Science to Business Ltd |
Ms Cordeiro has expertise in corporate finance and merchant banking to life science companies as well as investment fund experience in the healthcare sector. |
Dr Surbhi Gupta
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Senior Regulatory Affairs Lead (Medical Devices |
NHS England |
Dr Gupta is an experienced medtech executive specialised in progressing innovative healthcare assets towards regulatory approval and commercialisation.
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Professor Gail Hayward | Associate Professor |
University of Oxford |
Professor Hayward is a practising GP and experienced in diagnostics and infectious diseases research in primary care. |
Professor David Jayne | Professor (Clinical) | University of Leeds |
Professor Jayne's expertise covers general surgery with coloproctology sub-specialisation, robotic and minimally invasive surgery, gastrointestinal oncology and global surgery. |
Dr Jonathan Jeffers |
Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
Imperial College London
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Dr Jeffers is a mechanical engineer with musculoskeletal expertise. He has experience in taking research through the translational pathway from spinout formation to equity investment and acquisition. |
Mr Derek Jerome | PPI representative | PPI representative | PPI representative |
Dr Thomas Keeble |
Cardiologist & Associate Professor |
The Essex Cardiothoracic Centre and Anglia Ruskin University |
Dr Keeble is an experienced cardiologist and Associate Professor who primarily focuses on interventional cardiology clinical trials and out of hospital cardiac arrest. |
Dr Zahid Latif |
VP Global Innovation |
Shionogi Europe |
Dr Latif is a qualified pharmacist with experience in the private, public and non-profit sectors, specialising in life sciences and technology. |
Professor James Moore |
The Bagrit Chair in Medical Device Design |
Imperial College London |
Professor Moore has experience in research commercialisation and his interests include cardiovascular biomechanics, implantable devices, and the lymphatic system.
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Dr Nick de Pennington
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CEO
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Ufonia Limited
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Dr de Pennington is a former neurosurgeon with experience in digital innovation, health AI and clinical entrepreneurship. |
Dr Kam Pooni
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CEO
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Glyconics Ltd
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Dr Pooni has over 25 years of life sciences and MedTech commercialisation expertise, including regulatory, market entry and adoption routes. |
Dr Krishan Ramdoo | CEO Tympa Health and NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow. | Northwick Park Institute for Medical Research |
Dr Krishan is an ear, nose and throat surgeon with experience in developing a product starting from a lab bench to commercial product. |
Dr Matthew Reeves |
Associate Professor/Reader in Molecular Virology |
University College London |
Dr Reeves has a specialty in infectious diseases focusing primarily on human cytomegalovirus latency and reactivation, and viral pathogenesis in human transplantation. |
Dr Julie Simmonds | Managing Director, Equity Research | Panmure Gordon |
Dr Simmonds has expertise in investment and financial analysis across the healthcare sector, including medical devices, digital health and biotechnology. |
Dr Andrew Sims |
Head of Department, Northern Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering |
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Dr Sims is a medical physicist specialising in technology assessment of medical devices and diagnostics. He has expertise in medical image analysis and research commercialisation. |
Mr Keith Tucker (Orthopaedic Research UK representative included in the AI in MSK highlight) |
Trustee, Orthopaedic adviser
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Orthopaedic Research UK |
Mr Tucker is an orthopaedic surgeon with expertise in general orthopaedics and conducting research involving Machine Learning.
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Professor Peter Watkinson |
Professor of Intensive Care Medicine |
University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust |
Professor Watkinson brings experience of large scale data analysis including the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, randomised controlled trials and clinical trials of wearable monitoring devices. |
Ms Alexina Weekes |
PPI representative |
PPI representative |
PPI representative |