<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-06-03T15:52:43Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/F1B8F090-D4BA-4C61-94CE-4D59FC818895" ns1:id="F1B8F090-D4BA-4C61-94CE-4D59FC818895"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/35C8FF21-68E7-4B79-B582-6266CFBF17FA" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/1D5D0EBF-7468-45B3-936F-EA9A613B5989" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/1D5D0EBF-7468-45B3-936F-EA9A613B5989" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2027-03-30T23:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/21F36C43-2D96-42E8-BF28-E49625D265B0" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2025-09-30T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">10152022</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>Manchester Metropolitan University and Levitex Foams Limited KTP 24_25 R5</ns2:title><ns2:status>Active</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Knowledge Transfer Partnership</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>To develop a clinically evidenced novel sleep posture support and treatment device, 'Back Noodle', for Lower back pain condition/lower section of the lumbar spine (lumbosacral junction) pain, where the device development will scale a systematic framework of continuous product optimisation via a patient-centric design and testing toolkit.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>