The funding panels for SBRI Healthcare are multidisciplinary, comprising clinical, commercial and technical expertise as well as representatives from the Academic Health Science Networks (AHSN) and Innovate UK.
| 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 |