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Groundbreaking cancer research hub receives £10 million in new funding

Insigneo Co-Director Professor Jim Wild is PI of the Sheffield Platform for Imaging Research in Oncology (SPIRO) with Co-PI Dr Bilal Tahir. SPIRO will revolutionise how the state-of-the-art imaging facilities in Sheffield are used to tackle cancer.

BBC Cameraman Jon Hillyer, Professor Andy Swift, Alison Holt and Director and Producer Jospeh McAuley pose smiling for a group photo with a television camera in the foreground
Photo: BBC Cameraman Jon Hillyer, Professor Andy Swift, Alison Holt and Director and Producer Jospeh McAuley filming the AI diagnostic cardiac tool at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital

Sheffield AI heart disease innovation features on BBC Panorama

Insigneo research theme director for Imaging Life, Professor Andy Swift is featured on tonight's episode of BBC Panorama talking about how AI tools speed up analysis of images and scans of the heart.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Dr Pinaki Bhattacharya elected to the Executive Committee of the VPH Institute

Congratulations to Insigneo Member Dr Pinaki Bhattacharya from the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering on his election to the Executive Committee of the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Institute.

Published by the VPH Institute
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Virtual Mouse and Human Twins for optimising Treatments for Osteoporosis (VMHTsOP)” project research positions

The VMHTsOP project aims at developing the first inter-species Virtual Mouse-Human Twin for predicting bone adaptation over time and optimise biomechanical and/or pharmacological treatments for Osteoporosis.
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‘Digital twin’ heart modelling project will monitor patients virtually

Insigneo members from the University of Sheffield's Faculties of Engineering and Health are part of a team of interdisciplinary researchers who will create and test the first ‘digital twin’ heart models for a group of chronically ill NHS patients.
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New guidance approves AI-derived software for stroke assessments

Insigneo members Professors Li Su and Nigel Hoggard from the Neuroscience Institute and other Specialist committee members in NICE have endorsed two AI tools for aiding stroke diagnosis.
Profile photo of Jude Stone, head and shoulders of smiling man with short grey hair wearing a blue jumper outside a building.

Meet Jude Stone – the new Programme Director for the National Centre for Child Health Technology

Sheffield Children’s has appointed the Programme Director for the National Centre for Child Health Technology (NCCHT). Insigneo member Jude Stone will be leading the team of people who are bringing the National Centre to life.

| Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
osteoporosis in bone

New paper reveals dramatic implications with using the tibia loading model to treat osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a health condition that weakens bones. Research by Insigneo member Saira Farage-O'Reilly highlights how the direction of applying external force to the bone dramatically affects the strength of mouse tibia.