Proximity to Discovery - University of Sheffield
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Technical Summary
The MRC Proximity to Discovery scheme awards universities funds to help develop new collaborations, and ways of exchanging knowledge and skills. The awards can be used to support activities that promote the value of academic-industry partnership, and enhance academic and industry researchers’ understanding of each other’s needs and capabilities. This may be through people exchanges, creation of technology demonstrators, showcase events, commercialisation workshops and ‘entrepreneurs in residence’ schemes. Such exchanges of knowledge and skills will boost the most fruitful collaborations between UK universities and life science companies.
Organisations
- University of Sheffield (Lead Research Organisation)
- ELAROS (Collaboration)
- Places for People (Collaboration)
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND (Collaboration)
- Zealand Pharma (Collaboration)
- National Physical Laboratory (Collaboration)
- DermTreat (Collaboration)
- BLOND MCINDOE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Collaboration)
- Black Box ToolKit Ltd (Collaboration)
- Bridges Self Management Limited (Collaboration)
- Interstate Consulting Services (Collaboration)
- AF Pharma LLC (Collaboration)
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Collaboration)
- TYG ONCOLOGY LTD. (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Description | Collaboration under Proximity to Discovery Round 1 |
| Organisation | Black Box ToolKit Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Lead on development of a novel biomarker for dementia diagnosis. Hosting of company staff member help develop a custom data acquisition methodology. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise to help develop a custom data acquisition methodology. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Collaboration under Proximity to Discovery Round 1 |
| Organisation | Interstate Consulting Services |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Hosting of 1-day workshop and consultancy for University of Sheffield academics on the importance and appropriate use of biostatistics in research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Knowledge exchange with University of Sheffield researchers. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Collaboration under Proximity to Discovery Round 1 |
| Organisation | Public Health England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Lead on project promoting healthy lifestyles and tackling obesity in secure mental health settings, Research Assistant time and visits to Public Health England, London. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Joint project development and visit hosting. |
| Impact | Partnership further developed and links enabled with NHS England obesity and mental health teams in London, and senior clinicians within London, Birmingham and Merseyside NHS Trusts. Plans to develop NIHR applications in 2017. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Collaboration under Proximity to Discovery Round 1 |
| Organisation | TYG Oncology Ltd. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of simple cancer diagnostics kit |
| Collaborator Contribution | Technology assessment. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Secondment under Proximity to Discovery Round 1 |
| Organisation | AF Pharma LLC |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Secondee to company to validate the hypothesis that a compound class represents a novel family of antibiotics and preliminary data for further molecules to be designed and prepared. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hosting and training of secondee. |
| Impact | Follow on collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Secondment under Proximity to Discovery Round 1 |
| Organisation | Blond McIndoe Research Foundation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Pilot data collection, Research Assistant time and visits to Blond McIndoe as well as the cost of reagents. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hosting of Research Assistant and joint development of pilot data. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Secondment under Proximity to Discovery Round 1 |
| Organisation | Bridges Self Management Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Professional Services staff time to co-create a bespoke project management database and client engagement framework to offer high quality evidence-based training programmes for health and social care practitioners, supporting implementation into clinical practice. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hosting of secondee visits and co-creation. |
| Impact | Database is optimising engagement between care-givers and care-receivers. Possible role out to stroke management support teams and health practitioners through the delivery of training workshops. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Secondment under Proximity to Discovery Round 1 |
| Organisation | Dermtreat |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Lead on development of drug delivery system. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research Assistant time and access to conduct scoping review and protocol development. |
| Impact | This work enabled further development of an important aspect of a broader collaboration with DermTreat. Staff destination: Ms Kelly Lothbrook-Smith secured a part-time position as a Research Innovation Manager at Tinder Foundation following the MRC P2D project and continues to work in the Department of Psychology. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Secondment under Proximity to Discovery Round 1 |
| Organisation | ELAROS |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Secondee to gain experience in the growing area of digital health. Elaros benefited from dedicated time to understand opportunities for collaboration with the University of Sheffield and knowledge of funding schemes. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hosting of secondee. |
| Impact | Knowledge exchange. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Secondment under Proximity to Discovery Round 1 |
| Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Hosting of secondee. Provision of lessons on stem cell culture. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Carry out analyses with stem cells and novel protein matrices. |
| Impact | Visiting NPL researcher now plans to undertake a PhD in the hosting lab. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Secondment under Proximity to Discovery Round 1 |
| Organisation | Places for People |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Lead on development of Health & Wellbeing hub. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hosting of Professional Services staff and joint hub development. |
| Impact | None so far. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Secondment under Proximity to Discovery Round 1 |
| Organisation | Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Hosted secondment of occupational therapist (OT) from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (STH) to work on a systematic review of state of the art of fatigue management across diagnoses (an identified gap in systematic review literature). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of secondee. |
| Impact | Work undertaken consolidates wider team building across the two partners. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Secondment under Proximity to Discovery Round 1 |
| Organisation | Zealand Pharma |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Provision of secondee to company. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hosting of Research Assistant. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2015 |