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Centre for Process Innovation (CPI). (10/11/17). "Press Release: Funding Confirmed for CPI’s Centre for Healthcare Photonics".

CPI today announced that it has received funding to establish a new innovation centre, the National Centre for Healthcare Photonics, which will focus initially on novel technologies for imaging, diagnostics and therapy.

This new and internationally significant innovation centre will be financially supported with an £8.3m grant from the Local Growth Fund, through the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). Building of the Centre will commence in October 2017 at NETPark, Sedgefield and the Centre is expected to open in December 2018.

CPI' National Centre for Healthcare Photonics

Healthcare photonics involves the use of light to diagnose and treat a wide range of acute and chronic conditions. It is a rapidly growing area globally, because photonics-based methods can meet the increasing demand for non-invasive, cost-effective, or rapid treatments and/or personalised care. The UK has world-class research capability in this area, but a key challenge is to reduce the barriers that are preventing promising research and early-stage inventions from moving beyond the laboratory and into innovative healthcare solutions for patients. CPI aims to achieve this objective by creating infrastructure and capability to address several of these major barriers. The formation of the National Centre will allow more early-stage and small and medium sized companies to drive forward their innovation, and increase their chances of commercialisation, at reduced risk and with increased capital efficiencies. The new Centre will also stimulate and encourage large companies in the UK to undertake more disruptive innovation.

At the National Centre for Healthcare Photonics, CPI will partner with the academic, medical and clinical communities, supply and value chain partners, as well as key players within the healthcare innovation ecosystem. State-of-the-art biomedical imaging, photonic-enabled diagnostic methods and therapies are some of the technology themes that will be covered, with the aim to help improve the range and utility of photonic methods available. A set focus will be on reducing the cost of manufacture of photonic devices, to be able to address established market trends such as the move away from hospital-based and delivered services towards more local or personal testing and diagnosis.

“This new Centre will provide the infrastructure and support for companies to bring to market their highly innovative products, which have the potential to be cost-effective and provide improvements to patient care. We will be looking at applications spanning the full range of healthcare settings, from hospitals and GPs through to home-based care,” said Dr Tom Harvey, Strategic Programmes Manager, CPI.

Hans Moller, Innovation Director from the North East LEP said: “This is an exciting time for the Life Sciences industry and we’re thrilled that the North East will once again be leading the way in the field with the National Centre for Healthcare Photonics which will allow our region’s exceptional innovation expertise to flourish.


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About CPI

The Centre for Process Innovation is a UK-based technology innovation centre and is part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. The company uses applied knowledge in science and engineering combined with state of the art development facilities to enable its clients to develop, prove, prototype and scale up the next generation of products and processes.

Established to support the UK process manufacturing industry, CPI collaborates with universities, SMEs and large corporations to help overcome innovation challenges. Operating across a broad range of technologies, partners are supported at every stage; from concept to market; business support to technology development; and from scale up to supply chain intervention.

CPI consists of dedicated national innovation centres that support industrial biotechnology and biorefining, printable electronics, biologics and formulation. The centres enable advancements in major markets such as healthcare, electronics, food and drink, aerospace, automotive, materials, and energy. These world leading, digitally enabled and open access facilities are available for partners to get their products and processes to market quickly with minimal risk. Utilising strong networks, CPI brings together a range of partners in the delivery of innovation projects, with a common goal of strengthening the UK’s position in High Value Manufacturing.


About the North East Local Enterprise Partnership

The North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is a public, private, and education sector partnership that covers Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, Northumberland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland local authority areas.

The £270.4m Local Growth Fund, secured as part of the North East Growth Deal, supports the North East LEP’s delivery of the Strategic Economic Plan, which aims to create 100,000 more and better jobs by 2024.

   
Record changed: 2023-07-10

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