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Innovate UK has opened its ‘Biomedical Catalyst 2022 Round 1: Industry-led Research and Development’ fund for UK-registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprises wishing to develop innovative solutions to healthcare challenges. Applications can be made from 28 March 2022 until 25 May 2022.

We are delighted to be supporting an event in a series celebrating women working across life sciences in partnership with Welsh Government, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Industrial liaison Programme.

Life Sciences Hub Wales is working with three senior leaders from NHS Wales as Adoption Ambassadors.

CMR Surgical (CMR) – a global surgical robotics business –has announced that it has been awarded a significant multi-year contract by NHS Wales for implementation of the Versius® Surgical Robotic System in a National Robotics Assisted Surgery Programme.

As part of its latest series of films to showcase Welsh innovations with the power to revolutionise healthcare, we reveal how virtual reality training could become the future for healthcare professionals.

In our latest film to showcase the innovations made possible by the Accelerate programme, we explore a collaboration between Welsh innovators, Copner Biotech, and the Accelerate Healthcare Technology Centre (HTC) that could revolutionise cell culture via computer modelled 3D scaffolding designs.

A national robotic-assisted surgery programme allowing surgeons to perform complex procedures with more precision and control is being introduced in Wales, the Health Minister has announced.

Our CEO, Cari-Anne Quinn has penned an important article detailing why organisations are making Wales their place of choice for delivering health, care and wellbeing innovation, and how this can support our NHS.

In partnership with Abercynon-based social enterprise, Cynon Valley Organic Adventures, Cardiff University’s Clinical Innovation Accelerator team are delighted showcase their exciting ‘Green Prescribing’ Accelerate project in our latest video case study.

A partnership project between Gwylan UK and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s (UWTSD) Assistive Technologies Innovation Centre (ATiC), with the support of Accelerate, has created a pioneering new tool to help children manage their mental and physical health.

The Welsh Health Hack returns this February and March to support innovators and clinicians in developing challenge-led solutions across our NHS and healthcare systems.

Health Technology Wales has embarked on a search for technology with the potential to transform Wales’ social sector.

Huntleigh Healthcare Ltd, Clinical Innovation Accelerator (CIA), Cardiff University and the Welsh Wound Innovation Centre, have announced a partnership to evaluate a wound healing device supported in part by the Accelerate programme. 

A Rhondda heritage and conservation project which uses gardening and nature as a way of improving people’s employability skills and wellbeing has been named the 2021 National Lottery Wales Project of the Year.

Life Sciences Hub Wales was delighted to partner with MediWales to deliver this year’s Innovation Awards. This prestigious event brought together innovation leaders across health, care and industry in Wales to recognise outstanding achievements.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB), Roche Diagnostics, Digipharm and Life Sciences Hub Wales are launching a cutting-edge project to develop an innovative value-based model contract approach while improving the approach to diagnosis of heart failure in patients.

The one-day event held on 17 November was attended by more than 120 invited experts, key opinion leaders, practitioners and leade

Global technology company Healthy.io has launched the first use of their innovative wound care app in Wales, allowing patients to have their wounds assessed and monitored from the comfort of their own home.

The 2021 winners have now been announced for the inaugural TriTech Institute Health and Social Care Technology Challenge, a competition designed to identify, fund, and support new innovations and ideas that have the power to meet the ever-changing needs of Welsh patients.

We were delighted to host Vaughan Gething, Welsh Minister for Economy, and Robert Troy, Irish Minister of State for Trade Promotion

An innovative, new clinical project to examine the effects of the use of bioelectrical technology for pain management in patients waiting for knee replacement surgery, will launch this October.

NHS Wales is keeping our nation at the forefront of the Value-Based Health Care agenda with Value in Health Week, running from 8-12 November 2021.

Life Sciences Hub Wales is delighted to be partnering with MediWales for its sixteenth annual awards, with a ceremony that takes place on Thursday 2 December 2021.

Accelerate’s ‘Great Welsh Walk’ to well-being

Life Sciences Hub Wales is supporting Hywel Dda University Health Board’s new TriTech Institute with its first innovation challenge this month.