Healthcare Technologies at EPSRC

ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

Hannah Maytum12/05/11

Contents

Delivery Plan including outcomes from SR

What is Healthcare Technologies?

Brief Overview of Healthcare Portfolio

Plans for 2011/2012

The Future

Delivery and Implementation Plans

Delivery Plan for 2011 - 2015

Our Delivery Plan was published on the Web in December 2010

It sets out our high level plans for the next spending review period, 2011 – 2015

It follows on from the Strategic Plan which was published in spring 2010

How we see the futureOur strategy has

3 clear goals

Delivering impact

Shaping capability

Developing leaders

Our Three Strategic Plan Goals

1. Delivering Impact

Embedding impact throughout our portfolio by creating an environment in which it arises naturally, in whatever form, from the knowledge base.

This means:researchers will be asked to consider

Impact when they apply for funding and you will be able to ask for resources in

order to achieve this Impact.

Our Three Strategic Plan Goals

2. Shaping Capability

Ensuring we have the right people, with the right resource, in the right places to deliver the highest quality long-term research in areas where the UK leads internationally and where there is current or future national need.

This means:we will be making informed judgements about where our funding should go and so some areas will receive more funding

and some will receive less.

Our Three Strategic Plan Goals

3. Developing Leaders

Nurturing the visionary leaders who set research agendas and inspirational team leaders who act as role models.

This means:working closely with the community to support and promote leadership role models who can inspire and integrate

efforts of their peers to achieve greater impact from our investment.

Information about funder to sponsor changes

We are changing our approach to our relationship with our grant holders. We intend to:

Provide direction to researchers from strategic advice

Obtain regular feedback from sponsored researchers and use it to inform future funding

Secure commitment and engagement from our researchers to achieve our goals

Behave as an advocate for engineering and physical sciences.

This change in working is not completely new – we already have this relationship with a lot of

our larger investments .

Resource Capital Admin

“Flat cash” & ring fenced

Overall reduction ~ 50%

Overall reduction ~ 34 % with inflation

Yr 1 fixed, Yrs 2 – 4 indicative

Yr 1 fixed, Yrs 2 – 4 indicative

Total S & R £18.3bn

HEFCE £6.7bn

RCs £10.4bn

Total S & R £1.9bn

RCs £800m

EPSRC £3bn (by end of CSR 3% cash reduction, 12% reduction with inflation)

EPSRC £116m (excludes HPC funding from the large facilities capital fund)

EPSRC £62m (Near Cash)

Spending Review Allocation (2011/12 – 2014/15)

Resource Baseline Allocation by mechanism by financial year

2010/11£M

2011/12

£M

2012/13

£M

2013/14

£M

2014/15

£M

Near Cash Programme Resource

Manufacturing the Future

74 78 79 82 83

Energy 104 109 109 109 112

Digital Economy 24 26 26 27 27

Healthcare Technologies

74 76 76 76 76

Other themes (LWEC, GU)

18 17 17 17 17

National capability

458 427 412 406 400

ETI 8 15 17 19 21

Programme operations

12 12 12 12 12

Net Near Cash Programme Resource Expenditure

771 760 748 748 748

Programme Depreciation 10 11 11 8 7

Programme Resource Expenditure 781 771 759 756 755

Programme Capital Expenditure 49 46 35 25 25

Total Programme Expenditure 830 817 794 781 780

Planned Expenditure by Theme

Protected: Manufacturing the Future; Energy, DE, Healthcare.

Already committed to ETI programme.

Changes to look out for:

Equipment sharing

Capital funding for equipment

Stage-gating of funding

Review of Centres for Doctoral Training

Statement of expectation for Postgraduate Training

Wakeham efficiencies - RCUK briefing for universities (PVC Research and Finance Directors) was on 18th March

What is Healthcare Technologies?

What is Healthcare Technologies?Healthcare Technologies describes everything that EPSRC funds which is Healthcare relevant.

This does not just mean widgets and gadgets!

Healthcare Technologies is all about the capabilities which advance tools, techniques and technologies relevant to health

It covers everything from medical engineering, drug delivery, modelling, ICT for health etc and is very much an outcome focussed view of the portfolio.

We are aiming to describe our portfolio in a way that makes sense to the community and other funders alike.

By describing our portfolio effectively, we will be able to make informed decisions about where future funding will be targeted.

EPSRC Unique Position in Healthcare:Sponsoring basic research capabilities that create new

techniques and technologies which can:

• Advance the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of health conditions, for example through new imaging technology and drug delivery techniques

• Enable greater biomedical understanding and pull-through to therapy. Examples include modelling techniques and scale-up technologies

• Have the potential to transform future health delivery systems, such as information-driven healthcare.

Underpins Healthcare Sector (e.g. Pharmaceutical & Medical Technology industries & the NHS) – important for economic growth and social wellbeing in the UK

Research Councils and Technology Strategy Board

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From Bench to Bedside and Back Again

Needs identification & knowledge

creation

Solution development

Validating concept

Investment validation

Clearance and trials

Launch and evaluation

Technology Readiness Levels

EPSRCTSB

Healthcare Technologies going forward…Remit:

Healthcare technologies – capability, tools, techniquesBasic / transformative research that is high quality and world leading

Drivers:Focus to build critical mass around UK strengths Maximise industrial and user involvement / relevance (partnership)

So it’s about: changing how we work – moving to more of a ‘sponsor’ approachShaping our portfolio to maximise benefit / impact

It’s not about:Large new funding for healthcareChanging our remit – we are not moving to funding more applied research, still basic

Brief Overview of Healthcare Portfolio

Assistive Techs

Regen Med

Medicines

Design & Techs for

Public Health

Techniques for Biomedical Understanding

Diagnostics

Therapeutics

Digital Health Techs

Healthcare Technology Areas

Regenerative Medicine as an Example

Regen Med

Assistive Techs

Medicines

Design & Techs

for Public Health

Techniques for Biomedical

Understanding

Diagnostics

Therapeutics

Digital Health Techs

Non-linearSystems

Polymer Materials

Biomaterials & Tissue

Engineering

Analytical Science

ProcessSystems,

Components & Integration

Mathematics

Physical Sciences

Engineering

Healthcare Technology Area Definitions

ASSISTIVE TECHS

Technologies that employ the use of services/devices to help those with disabilities and age

related conditions

DESIGN & TECHS for PUBLIC HEALTH

Involves the design of the built environment and technologies to improve health and prevent

injury/disease

DIAGNOSTICS

Design and development of devices, instrumentation and technologies for analysis and diagnosis of conditions and

diseases

5%

14%

29%

Healthcare Technology Area Definitions

DIGITAL HEALTH TECHS

MEDICINES

Collection, processing and management of health

information

The underpinning chemistry, novel drug delivery and

manufacturing of medicines

8.5%

14%

Healthcare Technology Area Definitions

REGEN MED

TECHNIQUES for BIOMEDICAL

UNDERSTANDING

THERAPEUTICS

Study and development of artificial organs, specially grown tissues and cell (including stem cells), laboratory made compounds, and combinations of these approaches for treating injuries/disease

Modelling, characterising and sensing to understand areas of biomedical interest,

Includes materials understanding, modelling of things such as blood flow, understanding chemistry and biology

behind sensors

Design and development of devices, instrumentation and technologies for the treatment of conditions and

diseases

11%

11.5%

7%

Funding of Healthcare Technology Areas

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Plans for 2011/2012and

The Future

Funding Opportunities in 2011/12

TSB led Regenerative Medicine Tools and Techniques Competition – we are co-funding but the call is now closed, grants announced around September 2011

Joint EPSRC/TSB Grand Challenge on Nano-enabled diagnostics and therapies in Autumn 2011 (led by TSB, project must be business led)

Partner in the National Prevention Research Initiative Phase 4 call led by MRC, this call is currently open

Funding Opportunities in 2011/12

MRC led e-Health call planned for Summer 2011 to fund 5 e-Health Informatics Research Centres, we are a funding partner for this

Standard EPSRC research base funding is still available

Fellowships are changing – new strategy to be launched in Summer 2011 (current call for start in October 2011 is unaffected)

Call Updates From EPSRC

http://fd.epsrc.ac.uk/EmailAlert/

Future Activities

Review of Centres for Doctoral Training (happening at the moment)

Consultation with key stakeholders in Healthcare in late 2011

Joint scoping of the medical imaging portfolio with MRC

Future Activities

Continuing partnering in Lifelong Health and Wellbeing, led by MRC, including scoping 4 themes :

1. Achieving good cognitive function and mental wellbeing in later life

2. Promoting physical health in older age3. Enhancing mobility and independence in an

ageing population4. Extending healthy working lives

EPSRC will be looking at data relating to area 3 in the near future.

The Healthcare Technologies Team at EPSRC

Dr Rachel BishopHead of Healthcare

Technologies

Dr Claire WagstaffeSenior Portfolio

Manager

Dr Nicola GoldbergPortfolio Manager

Ms Linda SayersPortfolio Manager

Dr Hannah MaytumPortfolio Manager

Mr Eric DoughertyAdmin Support for

Healthcare Technologies

Miss Elaine MeskhiYear in Industry Student

Emails addresses are FirstName.Surname@EPSRC.ac.uk

Hannah MaytumHannah.Maytum@epsrc.ac.uk