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INDUSTRY NEWS Incubator for disaster zones
An inflatable incubator that costs just £250 has been invented by Loughborough University graduate James Roberts, who entered it for the 2014 James Dyson Award. Costing a fraction of the £30,000 of a normal incubator, the system, aimed at saving the lives of new-born babies in refugee camps, provides stable heat and humidification, jaundice lighting and can run off a car battery for 24 hours. Each end of the shell case contains electronics, including a ceramic heater, some fans, a humidifier and an Arduino computer. The collapsible middle section extends out and can be inflated into a bed. Approximately 150,000 children are born in refugee camps every year and 27,500 die due to a lack of sufficient incubation. James has made two prototypes, a purely functional clear plastic box that demonstrates the technology, and an aesthetic version that shows off what the product
will eventually look like. He said, “I hope to get the invention picked up by both charities and investors so that the design can be further developed from a prototype into a real product.”
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Technologies to shape the future
Seven Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowships have been awarded to researchers whose projects have the potential to bring radical innovation to their fields. The researchers receive financial support and mentoring for five years. This year’s Research Fellows include Dr Thomas Okell of the University of Oxford, who is developing novel imaging techniques to visualise blood flow in the brain. Current methods for detailed angiography are time-consuming and perfusion information must be obtained in a separate scan. Dr Okell is working to resolve this to allow both measurements to be performed simultaneously and in a fraction of the time currently required.
A second award has been made to Dr Alex Dickinson of the University of Southampton, who is working on next generation prosthetic limbs. Dr Dickinson is to develop accurate, dynamic models of residual limb- socket interactions in lower limb amputees to predict how the residual tissues deform and respond to loads from a range of activities. His aim is to predict the response of the stump in order to plan more efficient surgical and prosthetic treatments that speed up and reduce the discomfort of rehabilitation.
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Increasing that all important connectivity
A boost to links between business, academia and the NHS has been launched by the North West Coast Academic
Health Science Network (NWC AHSN). The new “Ecosystem” will act as a catalyst to bring together organisations and industry to encourage the take up of connected technological healthcare solutions.
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This initiative is part of an international network and will operate as part of the European Connected Health Alliance International Network of Connected Health Ecosystems. Dr Liz Mear, CEO of NWC AHSN, said, “This sort of collaborative partnership working across sectors has potential to shape and improve the future of health and social care services in the region and we’re excited to be taking this step on that journey with the launch of this ecosystem.”
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Dr Liz Mear with Brian O’Connor, Chair of the European Connected Health Alliance
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