Application for extension of IPS Fellowship for Michael Simmons

Lead Research Organisation: University of Cambridge
Department Name: Physics

Abstract

The UK government has prioritised transfer of knowledge and technology from academic research groups into industry in order to boost the UK economy. One mechanism for helping this process is to employ Innovation Fellows, based in Universities, who work with the researchers and industry partners to commercialise research outputs. In this proposal we seek support for an extension to the support of the Fellow based at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. We request 25% of his salary, having raised the remaining fraction elsewhere. The Fellow will aid researchers in bringing software and detectors developed at Cambridge into use outside of the laboratory. One major area will be medical research, where the Fellow has already launched two successful projects to help with the diagnosis and cure of cancer. These projects are collaborations with Addenbrookes Hospital, and this partnership will also bring forward new ideas to make use of proton beams to cure cancer. A major area of STFC expertise is with software for very large data-sets, as required by the Large Hadron Collider and the Square Kilometer Array (a very large radio telescope). The Fellow will attempt to find new areas of application for the techniques used by the researchers.

The Fellow will also work closely with Cambridge Enterprise and other partners to forge closer links between the University researchers and industrial players. All of these activities will ensure that the taxpayer and UK economy gain maximum benefit from the investment in cutting edge research.
 
Description This award supported knowledge transfer activities especially in medicine.
Exploitation Route This question is not appropriate for this class of award.
Sectors Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software)

Healthcare

 
Description Support for knowledge transfer activities
First Year Of Impact 2005
Sector Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Healthcare
Impact Types Societal

Economic

 
Description Clinical and Translational Research Committee Programme award
Amount £1,226,417 (GBP)
Funding ID C8857/A13405 
Organisation Cancer Research UK 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2012 
End 02/2017
 
Description EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account
Amount £67,752 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2014 
End 02/2015
 
Description STFC IAA
Amount £42,329 (GBP)
Organisation Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2014 
End 01/2015
 
Description Computational radiotherapy 
Organisation Addenbrooke's Hospital
Department Department of Oncology
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Hospitals 
PI Contribution We have set up a series of projects on computational radiotherapy. We provide expertise on image analysis, beam transport, radiation deposition, distributed computing.
Collaborator Contribution Our partners are clinicians delivering radiotherapy to patients. They supply the clinical expertise. The engineers provide finite element analysis and deformation studies of the tissues.
Impact Multidiscplinary team involving clinical radiotherapists, computer scientists, engineers and particle physicists.
Start Year 2011
 
Description Computational radiotherapy 
Organisation University of Cambridge
Department Department of Engineering
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution We have set up a series of projects on computational radiotherapy. We provide expertise on image analysis, beam transport, radiation deposition, distributed computing.
Collaborator Contribution Our partners are clinicians delivering radiotherapy to patients. They supply the clinical expertise. The engineers provide finite element analysis and deformation studies of the tissues.
Impact Multidiscplinary team involving clinical radiotherapists, computer scientists, engineers and particle physicists.
Start Year 2011
 
Description Physics at Work (Cavendish Lab) 2005-2013 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Type Of Presentation Workshop Facilitator
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Annual departmental exhibition for GCSE students to showcase physics as a career in industry or research.
2000 pupils over 3 days.

N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity Pre-2006,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013
URL http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/physics_at_work/