A device that helps desperately sick patients breathe and costs around £150 to manufacture could revolutionise
It has been designed to provide therapeutic oxygen support to patients severely ill with Covid-19, pneumonia or other forms of respiratory distress – and was developed using the principles of “frugal engineering” by a team of scientists and clinicians at the University of Leeds, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust . Read more.
In September, I had the pleasure of co-hosting the first offsite of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP), held in Darlington in the Northeast of England, the second day of the two, coinciding with the now Read more…
Northern Gritstone, the new investment business focused on university spin-outs in the north of England, today announces a first close of £215m having seen strong interest from investors in its proposition. The company, chaired Read more…
Sheffield’s Rinri Therapeutics is one of many ‘world-class’ firms in the North to benefit from Northern Gritstone’s new investment programme. Read more here.