Rosetrees 2017 Interdisciplinary Prize goes to DIPM/CVS diagnostics collaboration
The consortium of Dr Till Bachmann and Dr Maiwenn Kersaudy-Kerhoas of the Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine and Dr James Dear, Centre for Cardiovascular Science, have been awarded the Rosetrees 2017 Interdisciplinary Prize to develop a prototype device to rapidly diagnose drug-induced liver damage.
The University of Edinburgh researchers are joint winners, along with Professor Yaakov Nahmias, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
The theme of the 2017 Rosetrees Interdisciplinary Prizes is to promote collaborative research between medicine and engineering.
We are extremely pleased to receive the prestigious Rosetrees Interdisciplinary Prize. It is a recognition of the successful collaboration of the teams combining biomedical, engineering and medical expertise. The award gives us the opportunity to expand the portfolio of our EIS platform to a further clinical application where rapid point of care testing is urgently needed.
I am delighted that our collaboration with clinicians and scientists from Edinburgh Medical School is awarded this prestigious multi-disciplinary prize and I look forward to this exciting project
Our project will make a new device to rapidly measure a new class of blood test. This microRNA can diagnose liver damage from drugs more accurately than current tests. Funding from the Rosetrees Trust will bring together doctors and engineers to solve this challenge.
Each year Rosetrees seeks the best research to support and every year the quality is a little better. This year the judging panel found it extremely hard to choose a winner because there were so many outstanding projects. Well done to Edinburgh University and Hebrew University, Jerusalem and thank you to the many high quality applicants to whom we wish luck in attaining funding for their exciting projects.
Further information about the consortium and the Rosetrees Interdisciplinary Prize can be found here: