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Development of an App to engage patients at risk of osteoarthritis

Dr Suzanne Eldridge | Queen Mary University of London; Professor Francesco Dell’Accio
Competition Sponsor: United Kingdom Research and Innovation
Awardee Year: 2023 Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease, characterised by cartilage loss, for which there is no cure. It causes joint pain, and it is a leading cause of disability…

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Developing an MND oral health care pathway and toolkit

Dr Xiaochui (Helen) Chen | University of Manchester; Professor Anne-Marie Glenny; Dr Lucy O’Malley; Professor Andrea Malaspina
Competition Sponsor: United Kingdom Research and Innovation
Awardee Year: 2023 Motor neurone disease (MND) is a rare life-shortening disease that affects motor neurones in the brain and spinal cord which control…

Catalyst Awardee

CHERIE: Community Health Education, screenIng and prEvention

Dr Ilhem Berrou | University of the West of England
Competition Sponsor: United Kingdom Research and Innovation
Awardee Year: 2023 GP practices are the gateway to accessing healthcare, but they are inaccessible to many people who live in deprived neighbourhoods. We need to redesign health services, especially screening and…

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aiKNIT: Programmable wearable devices for the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders

Dr Ali Yetisen | Imperial College London; Sophie Richter
Competition Sponsor: United Kingdom Research and Innovation
Awardee Year: 2023 1.7 billion people worldwide are suffering from the pain of musculoskeletal disorders. This is more than one in four people on the entire planet. The rapid growth of an ageing…

Catalyst Awardee

Sustainable and nuTritious food Consumption for Older Adults (COAST)

Dr Laura Wilkinson | Swansea University; Professor Andrea Tales
Competition Sponsor: United Kingdom Research and Innovation
Awardee Year: 2023 Our older adult community, especially those from a lower socio-economic background, are currently facing the health challenges of obesity and malnutrition, sometimes both at the same time. This results in…

Catalyst Awardee

Developing a set of digital tools to provide anticipatory care for people living with dementia

Dr Harry Whalley | University for the Creative Arts; Mark Brill
Competition Sponsor: United Kingdom Research and Innovation
Awardee Year: 2023 We will develop a digital anticipatory care tool (ACT) to positively impact dementia patients by reducing clinical interventions, hospital admissions, and enhancing their quality of life. The problem sits…

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Improving self-management of lower back pain with a core activity detecting belt

Professor Ravi Vaidyanathan| Imperial College London; Dr Paul Bentley
Competition Sponsor: United Kingdom Research and Innovation
Awardee Year: 2023 Lower back pain (LBP) is a leading cause of chronic disability and pain affecting 1 in 3 people, and is the most expensive medical condition, costing over £10Bn in UK and…

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‘Just a Minute’: Assessing the potential to transform our ‘Just a Minute’ of bone specific activity finding into a population level intervention

Dr Vicky Stiles | University of Exeter; Dr Karen Knapp; Dr Samantha van Beurden
Competition Sponsor: United Kingdom Research and Innovation
Awardee Year: 2023 Osteoporosis is a bone-thinning disease that affects 50% of women and 20% of men over the age of 50 and increases their chances of experiencing…

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Patient Safety Research Centre: Empowering older people to avoid medication-related harm: a co-produced community pharmacy solution

Dr Lisa Riste | University of Manchester
Competition Sponsor: United Kingdom Research and Innovation
Awardee Year: 2023 “Greater Manchester NIHR *Patient Safety Translational Research Centre (PSTRC) facilitated two online co-design workshops in June & July 2021, which brought together people with vision impairments (VI) and community pharmacists to discuss…

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I-Can-Do: Developing digital accessibility for the dementia volunteer service

Professor Kristina Niedderer | Manchester Metropolitan University; Dr Pui Ling Fung
Competition Sponsor: United Kingdom Research and Innovation
Awardee Year: 2023 “I-Can-Do: Developing digital accessibility for the dementia volunteer service. This project focuses on older people with a recent diagnosis of dementia. It seeks to support people in building…

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