Healthcare Technologies Institute
The HTI shapes the future of healthcare technologies by serving as a unifying umbrella for interdisciplinary expertise across the University, bringing together discovery and translation to ensure real-world health impact. As an integrated Institute connecting academia, the NHS, industry and policy, it provides a single focal point for collaboration, accelerates adoption at scale and positions the University as a world class national and international centre of excellence for healthcare technologies.
Core research themes
Medical imaging
Technologies for advanced imaging, image guided intervention and image reconstruction and interpretation to improve diagnosis, monitoring and clinical decision making.
Aims
1. Act as the unifying Institute for healthcare technologies
1. Act as the unifying Institute for healthcare technologies
Provide an inclusive umbrella that brings together healthcare technology research and innovation across the University, fostering a cohesive and connected interdisciplinary community that delivers world class research excellence with international visibility and leadership.
2. Accelerate translation and real-world adoption
2. Accelerate translation and real-world adoption
Enable healthcare technologies to progress from discovery through translation, validation and adoption by integrating academic excellence with NHS, industry and policy engagement, aligned with national priorities including the NHS Long Term Plan and UK Medical Device Strategy.
3. Catalyse ambitious interdisciplinary programmes
3. Catalyse ambitious interdisciplinary programmes
Stimulate bold, large-scale interdisciplinary research programmes and collaborations that address major healthcare challenges and position the University for national and international leadership, including coordinated responses to major UKRI, EU and international funding opportunities.
4. Develop world class people and career defining training
4. Develop world class people and career defining training
Enable the development and deployment of an inclusive, career defining research training and development programme spanning doctoral researchers, early career researchers, clinical academics and established investigators, aligned with the EU Researcher Competence Framework and best practice in research culture and people development.
5. Enable access to world class facilities and infrastructure
5. Enable access to world class facilities and infrastructure
Provide coordinated access, visibility and strategic development of world class facilities, platforms and translational infrastructure that underpin healthcare technology research, development, validation and adoption across the University and its partners.
6. Provide a single point of connection for external partners
6. Provide a single point of connection for external partners
Offer a clear and accessible interface for industry, the NHS and other stakeholders to engage with the University’s healthcare technology expertise, reducing friction and accelerating collaboration and adoption.
7. Lead and shape the healthcare technologies agenda
7. Lead and shape the healthcare technologies agenda
Shape national and international agendas in healthcare technologies through leadership, policy engagement and strategic influence, including contribution to NHS, regulatory and medical device roadmaps and foresight activities.
