The Medtech Accelerator provides funding for the early stage development of innovative medical devices, diagnostics and digital health solutions that meet unmet clinical needs within the NHS and have the potential to grow into disruptive healthtech companies.
A Joint Venture Partnership
We provide early stage funding to clinical entrepreneurs developing new medical technology innovations that have the potential to improve patient care.
TumourVue, a start-up based in Cambridge, aims to develop a potentially transformative medical imaging device for cancer surgery.
December 11, 2020
Abdominal wall and groin hernias are a common surgical problem and the gold standard of care is to place a surgical mesh at the weak spot where the hernia came through, to strengthen it.
December 11, 2020
Over 600,000 people in the UK have significant obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), a condition that causes breathing to repeatedly stop and start during sleep, which has a big impact on quality of life and increases the risk of developing certain conditions such as hypertension, atrial fibrillation and stroke.
December 11, 2020
Regional anaesthesia involves the injection of local anaesthesia near a cluster of nerves to numb the area of your body that requires surgery. Over 6 million regional anaesthetic blocks are performed each year throughout the EU and US.
December 11, 2020
Currently, if a chemotherapy patient develops an infection or a fever, they have to go to hospital to find out if they have Neutropenic sepsis (NS). Once there a blood test is taken to check their blood cell count and an immediate course of intravenous antibiotics is started in case they do indeed have the condition.
December 11, 2020
LocANTS is a dynamic, cloud-based software platform with the ability to better share critical information in real time between hospitals and acute care transfer teams. These teams are responsible for moving critically ill patients between hospital sites.
December 11, 2020
Hear Glue Ear is designed for children aged 2-6 who are experiencing hearing loss due to Glue Ear. It aims to reduce learning and development delays that can occur when children have hearing loss. One million children per year suffer from glue ear (or Otitis Media with Effusion).
December 11, 2020
ENDOVAC is a pioneering endoscopic surgical device to help improve survival of patients with life threatening infection following a leak from their gastrointestinal (GI) tract whilst significantly enhancing current treatment methods.
December 11, 2020
During a corneal graft surgery suturing remains one of the most critical, difficult and time-consuming skills. Under the Medtech Accelerator award a Corneal Graft Suturing Ring (CGSR) will be designed to facilitate suturing resulting in a stable good apposition of the graft and host tissues. The new technology will help to ensure suturing with consistent length, depth, orientation and spacing, whilst also minimises damage created from repetitive holding of the sensitive and vital donner tissue.
December 11, 2020
This innovation is a novel patch sampling approach to grading and mapping cervical cancer. The Cervical Patch device aims to ensures more accurate screening for HPV (Human Papillomavirus) which can cause cervical cancer. The new device will improve detection results by enabling non-invasive evaluation of all the cells at the cervical surface while preserving their spatial information.
December 11, 2020
Arterial GlucoSave is an innovation designed to help prevent incidences of inappropriate administration of insulin during blood sampling.
December 11, 2020
Ablatus Therapeutics was founded to bring to market Bimodal Electric Tissue Ablation (BETA), an innovative improvement over existing tissue ablation techniques, in order to offer greater clinical options and to improve patient outcomes.
December 11, 2020