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Rising to the challenge: the Christabel Pankhurst Building launch event
“Christabel Pankhurst was an alumna of the University of Manchester who was really influential in the suffragette movement. She had the vision of believing that she had skills that could be useful, at a time that the country didn’t allow her to use them. There is a...
University to train next generation of AI researchers in new UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training
The University of Manchester has been awarded funding for a new UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Decision Making for Complex Systems.The centre, led Dr Mauricio A Álvarez, will train the next generation of AI researchers to develop AI methods designed to...
Professor Alejandro Frangi FREng becomes Director of the Pankhurst Institute
The Institute's new director is welcomed by Professor Chris Taylor, Chair of the Christabel Pankhurst Institute Board and Associate Vice President, Digital Strategy and Innovation at The University of Manchester.I am delighted to announce that Professor Alejandro...
Developing Accessible Digital Health Software
Research team: Digital Health Software Team, University of ManchesterAs a digital health software team, our aim is to build software to support health research across multiple disease areas and conditions.A key focus for us is co-designing websites and mobile apps...
Sustainable Translation of Digital Health Technologies from Academia
The Christabel Pankhurst Institute, alongside Carnall Farrar (CF), a healthcare consulting and data innovation company based in London, are currently undertaking a research project to understand the “Sustainable Translation of Digital Health Technologies” on behalf of...
Improving the equity of digital health technology by using the Health Equity Impact Assessment Digital Health supplement (HEIA-DH)
Research team: Amanda Gambin, Syed Mustafa Ali, Helen ChadwickChief investigators: Allison Crawford (University of Toronto and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health); Sabine van der Veer (University of Manchester)Funder: International Centre for Translational...
Tissue engineering strategies to model homeostatic variations of extracellular matrix
Challenge we're trying to solveAging and diseased states, such as cancer and inflammation, are responsible for the stiffening of tissues. The increase of tissue stiffness and associated pathologies affects a large portion of worldwide population; only in the UK there...
Polynerve – an advanced nerve guide conduit for peripheral nerve repair
Challenge we’re trying to solveTraumatic peripheral nerve injury (PNI) is common and mainly affects the upper limbs of young economically active adults, of both genders. PNI presents serious economic consequences for the patient, and society as a whole, and despite...
Peptide hydrogels: from seed funding to commercialisation
Challenge we’re trying to solveOne of the key engineering challenges in the life science and biomedical sectors is the design and manufacture of bespoke, fully defined non-animal derived scaffolds for 3D cell culture applications, i.e., cell niches. These cell niches...
The Manchester smart neuro-therapies platform
Challenge we’re trying to solveChronic musculoskeletal pain is pain lasting for more than 3 months and includes arthritis, low back pain, and fibromyalgia, and affects more than one-third of the UK (and global) population. Chronic pain is inadequately managed by...
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