Leicester Biomedical Research Centre Industry Engagement Event : Digital Health Sandpit 2025
August 19 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Digital health tools and technologies can significantly improve health outcomes by enhancing access to care, facilitating remote monitoring, promoting preventative measures, and enabling more personalized and efficient healthcare delivery. These tools range from wearable devices and mobile apps to telehealth platforms and AI-powered diagnostic tools.
Join world leading clinicians from Universities Hospitals Leicester and the University of Leicester and be part of this exciting initiative to develop new digital health products for use in the NHS.
Aims of the Sandpit:
- To co-create innovative, data-driven solutions to address healthcare challenges, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
- To foster new collaborations and build lasting multidisciplinary networks between academia, industry and healthcare professionals.
- To support the development of early-stage project ideas with potential for further research, funding, or commercialisation.
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About the Leicester BRC
A £26.1 million award from National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)* enables pioneering research into medical advancements to continue apace in Leicester through the Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).
NIHR Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs) are collaborations between NHS organisations and universities. They bring together academics and clinicians to translate scientific discoveries into potential new treatments, diagnostics and technologies.
Led by our Director, Professor Melanie Davies MBE, our research here in Leicester focuses on:
- Respiratory and infectious diseases
- Lifestyle
- Data innovation for multiple long-term health conditions and ethnic health
- Personalised cancer treatment and prevention
- Environment
- Cardiovascular
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