A Cross Border Proposal for a New Eastern Corridor Medical Engineering Centre

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A United Kingdom-Ireland (Ireland-Northern Ireland-Scotland)

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

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Description (EN):

Overarching Need for Cardiology R&I: As we witness global demographic changes within our population , with larger percentages of the population being classified as elderly, society is now increasingly being faced with the huge challenge to alleviate the burden being placed on health and social care services by this cohort. Advances in technology have the potential to revolutionise healthcare delivery, reduce the amount of time spent in hospitals and support the elderly to ‘age in place’. The major causes of chronic illness such as cardiac diseases benefit from lower cost medical devices with a rapid point of care/connected health device focus. Opportunity to combine jurisdictional specialisms in Report Patient Monitoring Market. This proposed collaboration is between the two main centres within the Island of Ireland in Intelligent Sensor Technology, namely Nanotechnology and Integrated BioEngineering Centre (NIBEC) in conjunction with the Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI) at Ulster and the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute (BDI), Dublin City University in conjunction with DKIT (Dundalk) and UCD--ARCH/INSIGHT (Prof Brian Caulfield). The partnership have been highly successful at influencing EU and global impact within their respective areas and this project provides them with the impetus and funding to work collectively to make a step change to where industry and academia are placed in the globally competitive remote patient monitoring market. The proposed PhD titles and RA innovation projects have been informed through the partnership’s experience and consultation with industry leaders. Proposed Project: The proposed project, spanning from March 2017 to December 2021, has five work packages covering various aspects of remote patient monitoring within cardiology that have been informed and shaped by industry. There will be 24 PhDs delivered over three and four year periods with varying technology ready levels, which feed into and shape five demonstrator platforms. Information added on 2020-05-05, regarding the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 (the corona virus pandemic that started in 2019): ECME has launched a small grants competition, providing up to £30,000 to SMEs to develop products and services that respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. These include: o Machine learning monitoring algorithms o Use of clinical datasets to enhance decision making and improve patient care pathways o The design and manufacture of PPE equipment o The development of rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19. o Development of ventilator equipment.

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Expected Results (EN): 1.1.1: The annual number of peer-reviewed journal and conference publications in two target sectors (Health and Life Sciences and Renewable energy) with cross-border authorship and with the potential to create economic impact.

Expected Outputs (EN):

The outcome of ECME will be to create better models of heart disease care by researching (through 24 PhD students) and developing generic solutions (through 3 RAs) within the lucrative and growing remote patient monitoring market, with a specific focus on developing cardiac big data database within the region; enhancing user ready sensor technology; improving smart wearables; reducing the complexity and cumbersomeness of point of care diagnostics and improved smart clinically relevant monitoring in the AAL and rehabilitation envirThe proposed project, which spans from March 2017 to December 2021 (57 months), will contribute 81 peer reviewed journal and conference publications. All these publications will be excellent in status, as defined by the REF system in the UK and the HEA Research Review system in the ROI. It is anticipated that that the journals to which papers will be submitted will include Journal of Electrocardiology; European Journal of Cardiology; Journal of the American Heart Association; Computers in Cardiology; IEEE Biomedical Engineering; onmentsBlood; Nature; Sensors and Actuators, Biosensors; Biosensor and Bioelectronics etc. The Conferences to be attended include The International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology (ISCE); pHealth, IEEE EMBS, ICBME and MicroTAS. In all cases new journals will be formatted under our Open Access Policies (http://guides.library.ulster.ac.uk/openaccess).A further result of the proposed project will be potential economic impact - it is anticipated that the proposed project will result in the following outcomes to varying extents within each of the three programme jurisdictions: • Increased annual BERD by the enterprises supported [Target 10 Baseline: to be determined]. • Increased research capability rating of the participant universities [Target to increase Research Quality (HEFCE-GPA increased by 10%) and HEA performance by 10%]. • Increased future R&I funding for the sector. • Development of five new product platform demonstrators aligned with Work-packages 1 -5, with an export potential. • Increased number of jobs in the high value Health and Life Sciences sector through creation of university spin outs [Target: 5]. • Reverse brain drain - PhD graduates in employment with industry in the region in the post project period [Target: 8] . • Enhanced sales and GDP from innovative solutions developed (outside the programme timeframe). • Growth of the regional R&D support infrastructure associated with fundamental and applied interests in health and life sciences, engineering innovation and manufacturing.

Thematic information

Health and social services Knowledge and technology transfer

Specific Objective: To increase business and industry relevant research and innovation capacity across the region within two target sectors; Health and Life Sciences and Renewable Energy

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority: (01a) enhancing research and innovation (R&I) infrastructure and capacities to develop R&I excellence, and promoting centres of competence, in particular those of European interest

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: UU

Department: Engineering Research Institute, School of Engineering

Address: Cromore Road, BT52 1SA Coleraine, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 2 888 523.29

DCU

Name: DCU

Department: Biomedical Diagnostics Institute

Address: Glasnevin, D09 Y074 Dublin 9, Ireland

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 843 062.47

DkIT

Name: DkIT

Department: Netwell Centre

Address: Dublin Road, A91 K584 Dundalk, Ireland

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 1 746 576.30

UCD

Name: UCD

Department: Insight Centre for Data Analytics

Address: Belfield, D04 KW80 Dublin, Ireland

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 835 367.69

UHI

Name: UHI

Department: Department of Diabetes & Cardiovascular Science, Highland Diabetes Institute, Centre for Health Science

Address: Old Perth Road, IC2 3JH Inverness, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 1 407 997.33

Name: ST

Department: Craigavon Area Hospital

Address: Lurgan Road, BT63 5QQ Portadown, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 641 390.05

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Project name (EN): A Cross Border Proposal for a New Eastern Corridor Medical Engineering Centre

Project acronym: ECME

Project start date: 2017-03-01

Project end date: 2021-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 8 362 917.13

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 7 108 479.56

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A United Kingdom-Ireland (Ireland-Northern Ireland-Scotland)

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2022-11-16

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175 / 175 (100%)

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A Cross Border Proposal for a New Eastern Corridor Medical Engineering Centre

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