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Celebrating our Second Year of Success

MIMIT celebrated two years of operation last week with a showcase of its projects nearing completion. These included presentations illustrating how an unmet clinical need was identified and the MIMIT solutions that have been developed. The projects covered a broad range of clinical areas including development of aortic stents, needles visible by ultrasound, real time pain assessment and EEG monitoring of preterm babies. The showcase was attended by Board members representing all the MIMIT partners, Department of Health, Northwest Development Agency, Medilink Northwest and MIMIT was especially delighted that Colleen Kigin, CIMIT Chief of Staff, flew in from Boston.



The founder Chair, Sir Robert Boyd, retired from MIMIT having enjoyed the first two years immensely and was proud of its achievements. He introduced John Stageman, who is succeeding him as the new Chair of MIMIT. John has several advisory roles in the scientific and innovation sector as well as sitting on the NWDA Board and the Scientific Advisory Council.



Awards were made to the best MIMIT masters student of 2009, Saima Ahmed and for the two best unmet clinical needs disclosures. The first of these was made to Tim Blackburn, Central Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (CMFT), for his disclosure ‘Facial Paralysis’ the solution of which should introduce a step change to management of paralysis due to Stroke, Bells palsy and other conditions. The other award was made to Paul Abeles, Consultant Clinical Psychologist also from CMFT for the disclosure ‘Advanced Sleep, Activity and Rest Monitoring’. The solutions for this are in development and MIMIT is holding a brainstorming forum for MIMIT partners on February 12th.



Following further presentations by funding bodies Wellcome Trust and NIHR i4i, a networking reception was held in the MIB Atrium.