The funding panels for SBRI Healthcare are multidisciplinary, comprising clinical, commercial and technical expertise.
Phase 1 Panel
Professor Mike Lewis (Chair)
Executive Chairman, iPlato Ltd
Mike is Chair of 5 Medical/CRO/digital health companies and Professor at Birmingham Medical School. His industry experience covers pharma, biotech, digital, dental, devices and diagnostics and he is also Chair of the Biocatalyst Major Awards (MAC2) Panel
Professor Wendy Tindale (Deputy Chair)
Director, NIHR Devices for Dignity MIC
Clinical professional working in the NHS as Director of Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering; expertise in Medical Imaging & Medical Devices
Dr Sourav Ghosh
Lecturer, Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Acoustic and optical biosensors applied to rapid point-of-care diagnosis of infectious disease, antimicrobial resistance, wounds and chronic disease biomarkers
Dr Richard Williams
Healthcare Product Development lead, Healthcare Technologies Institute, University of Birmingham
Expertise in the translation of biomaterial/drug healthcare technologies from concept to finished products progressing through clinical studies and commercial exploitation
Professor Tony Young
IRLS, NHSE, National Clinical Lead for Innovation
Speciality Urology. Expertise: All aspects of healthcare and life science innovation and has acted as external examiner for PhD's in ML at UCL
Professor Paul Dimitri
Director, NIHR Children & Young People MedTech Cooperative
NIHR CRN National Children’s Specialty Lead
Paul leads national networks to support the development of health technology for children and to support the implementation and delivery of national child health research
Dr Clifford Mann
National Clinical Director (A&E)
Acute care, National priorities for urgent and emergency care
Mr Marc Thomas
Director of Policy for Emergency and Elective Care at NHS England and NHS Improvement
SRO for hospitals programme and emergency care lead director for governance, finance, risks, internal audit, business planning / programme assurance stakeholder management
Dr Sam Shah
Clinical Director Dentist Practises and Digital Health Tech Advisor
Expertise in digital development of the ecosystem, public health, health policy; and digital transformation. Experience in health education and commissioning of services.
Dr Mark Wyatt
Investment Director, Mercia Asset Management PLC
Following a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Cambridge Mark has spent over 20 years working for venture capital companies supporting life science businesses
Mr Billy Boyle
CEO Owlstone Medical Limited
Early cancer detection. Precision Medicine in respiratory disease. Start-up and Scale-up. Entrepreneurship.
Mr Richard Deed
Associate Director Industry, Health Innovation Manchester
Richard’s early career was in oncology research, followed by 20 years of commercialisation and industry facing activity in the NHS. He has been involved in previous and current SBRI Healthcare calls, defining the clinical needs and acting as an assessor
Miss Tammy Holmes
Head of Innovation Exchange, West Midlands Academic Health Science Network
20 year’s experience working in the NHS in a number of operational roles in innovation and research supporting innovators from industry, NHS and academia to develop and implement ideas
Mr Patrick Mitchell
Director of Innovation and Transformation, Health Education England
Patrick’s career stems from hospital operations holding several senior Board positions. He joined HEE in 2013 and most recently oversaw the Topol Review to investigate the workforce, education and training implications of the introduction of digital technologies.
Dr Laura Fenner
PPIE representative
Public reviewer
Mr Stephen Edgar
PPIE representative
Public member with experience on several NIHR grant-awarding panels including I4I, EME and PRP
Phase 2
Professor Wendy Tindale (Chair)
Director, NIHR Devices for Dignity MIC
Clinical professional working in the NHS as Director of Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering; expertise in Medical Imaging & Medical Devices
Professor Peter Bannister (Deputy Chair)
Chief Customer Success Officer, Mirada Medical
Commercial, product, operations and technology leadership in digital health, life sciences, artificial intelligence, medical imaging and clinical research organizations
Dr Dan Boden
Interim National Clinical Director for Urgent and Emergency care
Lincoln County Hospital A&E Consultant Dr Dan Boden has recently been appointed as the Interim National Clinical Director for Urgent and Emergency Care. His experience includes working between the A&E departments at Lincoln and Pilgrim hospitals, while also working as the Emergency Care Improvement Support Team (ECIST) Clinical Associate and the East of England Emergency Medicine Regional Clinical Advisor for NHS England and NHS Improvement.
Professor Pankaj Vadgama
Emeritus Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Queen Mary University of London
His main interest is biosensors for near patient diagnostics and metabolite monitoring, with particular focus on polymeric barrier materials for enhanced biocompatibility
Dr Richard Williams
Healthcare Product Development lead, Healthcare Technologies Institute, University of Birmingham
Expertise in the translation of biomaterial/drug healthcare technologies from concept to finished products progressing through clinical studies and commercial exploitation
Professor Paul Dimitri
Director, NIHR Children & Young People MedTech Cooperative
NIHR CRN National Children’s Specialty Lead
Paul leads national networks to support the development of health technology for children and to support the implementation and delivery of national child health research
Dr Paula Bennett
Associate Director, Health Innovation Manchester
Paula has 26 years clinical practice in adult and paediatric emergency nursing. Paula has a Doctorate from University of Salford that evaluated the impact of computerised clinical decision support on frontline care. Paula first joined the Utilisation Management Unit in October 2016 as its Associate Director of clinical development and has recently taken on the responsibility of strategic lead for the team.
Professor Tony Young
National Clinical Director for Innovation at NHS England
National Clinical Lead for Innovation. Specialty Urology. Expertise: All aspects of healthcare and life science innovation and has acted as external examiner for PhD’s in ML at UCL
Dr Sam Shah
Clinical Director Dentist Practises and Digital Health Tech Advisor
Expertise in digital development of the ecosystem, public health, health policy; and digital transformation. Experience in health education and commissioning of services
Dr Mark Wyatt
Investment Director, Mercia Asset Management PLC
Following a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Cambridge Mark has spent over 20 years working for venture capital companies supporting life science businesses
Mr Swapnil Gadgill
Co-founder Therapy Box
Swapnil is the Managing Director of a multi award winning technology company, Therapy Box with a mission to use speech, language and acoustics as digital biomarkers. His extensive experience in commercial and technology environments paved the way to starting Therapy Box in 2009. Under Swapnil's management, the company has released 30+ apps including the flagship app, Predictable.
Dr Paul Hanmer
Program Manager at Health Innovation Manchester
Dr Paul Hanmer is an inventor and technology expert who has worked in the public and private sector to develop and integrate innovations with health provider organisations. Paul has worked with NICE, the NHS National Innovation Centre, Health Innovation Manchester and NHS England as well as international commercial medical device companies.
Miss Tammy Holmes
Head of Innovation Exchange, West Midlands Academic Health Science Network
20 years’ experience working in the NHS in a number of operational roles in innovation and research supporting innovators from industry, NHS and academia to develop and implement ideas
Mr Matt Aiello
National Lead for Urgent and Emergency Care at Health Education England
Matt is engaged in the research and development of innovative workforce transformation programmes, with an aim to address the Urgent and Emergency Care workforce challenges in the UK. Since taking up post in 2013, Matt has prepared and delivered an award-winning portfolio of pilot and test-of-concept projects. Matt is currently leading Health Education England’s national Urgent and Emergency Care programme.
Dr Laura Fenner
PPIE representative
Public reviewer
Mr Stephen Edgar
PPIE representative
Public member with experience on several NIHR grant-awarding panels including I4I, EME and PRP