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Insigneo-led team awarded ARIA opportunity seed funding for fungal neural interfaces

An Insigneo-led team, headed by Dr Thomas Paterson, has received opportunity seed funding from the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) for a project titled Adapting Non-Pathogenic Fungal Networks Toward Next-Generation Neural Interfaces.
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Women's HealthTech Innovation Network launch

We were very proud to co-host the launch of the Women's HealthTech Innovation Network (WHIN) with the Devices for Dignity: The NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in long term conditions.
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A section through the new material showing how it mimics the native female tissue in having three layers of interconnected fibres which distend when stretched but then bounce back to their size and shape

Hope on the horizon for women with urinary incontinence

Researchers have identified a promising alternative material for treating the condition of stress urinary incontinence. The research is led by Insigneo member, Professor Sheila MacNeil, and Professor Christopher Chapple, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
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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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University of Sheffield professor awarded two prestigious fellowships

A University of Sheffield professor from the School of Medicine and Population Health has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
Women in MRI machine to help detect heart disease

New cardiac research will save women’s lives by improving detection of heart failure

Insigneo member Professor Andy Swift is a co-author on a new study that has advanced how heart failure is detected in women – meaning more female patients can be diagnosed, and at an earlier stage.
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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.