Insigneo Showcase 2024

The Insigneo Showcase 2024 took place at the University of Sheffield's The Wave building on 14 June 2024 and was attended by over 220 guests from across academia, healthcare and industry.

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The theme of this year’s event was the journey from innovative research to translation and commercialisation, and a celebration of the exciting research collaborations within the institute which are developing fundamental science with translational healthcare potential to benefit people in our region and beyond.

The day featured inspirational talks showcasing work from across our five research themes and a fascinating plenary talk from Professor Peter Coveney, Professor of Physical Chemistry from University College London.  Professor Coveney has collaborated with Insigneo Institute researchers for many years via the EU H2020 Centre of Excellence in Computational Biomedicine, CompBioMed. His talk on ‘Digital twins: The virtual future of medicine’ provided insights on the challenges and opportunities ahead.

We were also delighted to welcome Professor Maciej Malawski, Director of the Sano Centre for Computational Personalised Medicine from Krakow, Poland who gave a keynote talk and gave us an excellent overview of the Sano Centre’s work. Sano Centre are collaborative partners of the institute and sit on our new Advisory Group. The Insigneo  Advisory Group also includes representatives from organisations within the University of Sheffield which are strategically aligned with Insigneo such as the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), Centre for Machine Intelligence, DataConnect and Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research (SCHARR).

Thank you to everyone who attended who contributed to making it such an interesting and stimulating day. It’s been fantastic to see the breadth of research from across our membership brought together in one day.  Thank you to everyone who presented posters and contributed to our research slideshow.

We would also like to congratulate our poster prize winners:

Insigneo Poster Prizes

For the best poster for each Insigneo research theme :

  • Hamza Zafar - Smart devices and sensors
  • Caitlin Ryan - Biomaterials/Biomechanics/Cell engineering
  • Scarlett Strickland - Imaging life
  • Amy Harding – Computational modelling in medicine
  • Mian Kou - Healthcare data/AI

Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) awards:

For the students whose posters best represent both Insigneo research and the field of chemistry:

  • Jemima Pilgrim-Morris - Best overall student poster
  • Daniel Mohamed - Best Yorkshire & Humber student poster
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Lastly we'd like to thank our exhibitors for supporting us:

  • Panacea Wellbeing & Web Services
  • The University of Sheffield Partnerships and Knowledge Exchange Service (PKES)
  • South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub
  • NIHR HRC in Paediatrics and Child Health
  • NIHR Sheffield Biomedical Research Centre
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