Take a look at events organised by the MedTechONE Collaborative team and our partners.
MedTechONE Collaborative hosts a variety of events and sessions across each year. The primary goal of our events is to foster communication and collaboration between innovators, experts, and industry.
Upcoming Events
MedTech Links: Innovations in Women's Health
Monday 20th April 2026
Time: 13:00 - 18:30
Venue: Talks in RSM 2.28, exhibition and refreshments in RSM 3.01 (C, D, E)
Join us for the next MedTech Links event, this time focusing on Imperial innovations around Women's Health. Many conditions under the women's health umbrella are oft understudied and misunderstood, despite being debilitating. This event aims to showcase the work being undertaken at Imperial to improve diagnostics, treatments and interventions, and long-term solutions for women's health conditions, and provides opportunities for our innovators to network with an invited audience from industry.
Register here!
In partnership with
Clinician-Engineer-Scientist Workshop: Paediatrics
Thursday 30th April 2026
Time: 16:00-18:30
Venue: Queen's Tower Rooms
This session allows clinicians to present their current clinical challenges to a room of Imperial scientists and engineers, and discuss how innovations happening here can provide solutions. This event aims to foster networking and collaboration between these different sectors and includes plenty of time for discussion.
Are you a paediatric clinician or scientist? Do you have a clinical challenge that could be solved with the help of an engineer?
If so, you may want to present your challenge at this event. Please register below to submit your challenges (or solutions), or alternatively you can email the MedTechOne team for more information.
The Clinical Challenges
- Dr Cheryl Battersby - Investigating non-invasive, non-touch monitoring methods for heart rate, ECG, and CO2 for ventilated infant patients. Additionally, how can we improve the affordability of incubators and thermo-environments for pre-term infants?
- Dr Toranj Wadia - Ultrasound is a growing technology we areused in ICU, but hands on acquisition by trained people is still a limiting factor as training takes a long time and some new operators don’t feel confident in acquiring images.
It would be valuable to have ultrasound pads with technology to locate the heart, lungs, intracranial vessels would enable staff to acquire images which could be reviewed remotely by experienced clinicians.
Other potential uses would be to enable non-cardiology trained staff to check for pleural/pericardial effusion or look at brain perfusion, in the midst of a cardiopulmonary resuscitation instead of a pulse check, and allow offsite clinicians like cardiologists to advise on management after reviewing images of a child admitted to a non cardiac centre. - Dr Toranj Wadia - Syringe pumps are used to give infusions of medicines that maintain the patients blood pressure level above a certain level. The medication level has to be titrated depending on the blood pressure target. This is currently done manually by the bedside nurse but a self-weaning syringe pump that could accurately auto-titrate with a blood pressure target input would free up the nurses to do other important things.
- Dr Toranj Wadia - Gas chromatography mass spectrometry is being used to measure and study volatile organic compounds in breath to identify profiles that would point towards an infection. Currently we need to collect the sample and send it to a laboratory for analysis which takes time. It would be useful to have this as a point of care test at the bedside either as part of the ventilator or siphoning from the ventilator circuit to go into the monitor, similar to end tidal co2 monitoring. This could be used to track the resolution of an infection or start of a new one. It could also be used to track improvement in lung inflammation with steroids for example.
- Prof Aubrey Cunnington - We have recently invented a new method to predict the trajectory of acute illness from a single blood sample. It uses a method called RNA velocity, which requires measurement of spliced and unspliced RNA transcripts. Our challenge for the engineers is to develop a rapid point-of-care testing platform to quantify the spliced and unspliced transcripts for a small number of genes in a blood sample, which can be used to predict which unwell children with infections will rapidly deteriorate and which children are not at risk of severe illness.
Register here!
In partnership with
Past Events
Designed to address clinical need, this event series requests clinical challenges on the given topic from clinicians and medics working within the Imperial network. We also invite Imperial innovators specialising in science and engineering to provide their solutions to the challenges.
Clinician-Scientist-Engineer: Clinical Challenges in Infection
Thursday 10th October 2024 // 16:00 – 18:00
Hosted in partnership with the Institute of Infection
Clinician-Scientist-Engineer: Clinical Challenges in MedTech Innovations
Thursday 4th July 2024 // 16:00 – 18:00
Hosted in partnership with the Imperial Enterprise Lab
Clinician-Scientist-Engineer: Clinical Challenges Networking Event
Thursday 1st February 2024 // 16:00 – 18:00
The MedTech Links event series aims to bring Imperial expertise and innovation together with industry specialists. The talks show off what our academics are working on, and the exhibition provides networking opportunities with industry. These events are also an excellent opportunity for our PhD students to showcase their work!
MedTech Links: Innovations in Design & Engineering in MedTech
Tuesday 23rd September 2025 13:00 - 18:30
RSM 2.28 // RSM 3.01, South Kensington
Our September MedTech Links event explores how Imperial’s highly innovative research is being translated into new medical technologies for patients and their clinicians. New discoveries and advancements in medical science require novel approaches to the design and engineering of MedTech. Join us to find out how our researchers and clinicians bring new ideas and engineering approaches to medical technologies and unmet clinical needs.
Organised in collaboration with the 4D Health Tech Network, this event aims to showcase new medtech innovations underway at Imperial, with a focus on the design and engineering work that goes into creating them.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medtech/events/past-events/innovations-in-design--engineering-in-medtech/
MedTech Links: AI, Machine Learning, and Devices with Autonomy
Monday 24th March 2025 13:00 – 18:30
RSM 2.28 // RSM 3.01, South Kensington
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning systems have the potential to create devices which can act autonomously without human intervention. This event explored Imperial’s research and work that aims to reach this goal. We explored Imperial innovations in personalised and precision medicine, in human / machine robotics and in synthetic biology.
Our event welcomes colleagues from business and industry as well as Imperial’s clinicians and researchers.
Organised in partnership with the AI4Health Network.
MedTech Links: Innovations in Human Microbiome Research
Monday 16th September 2024 13:00 – 18:30
RSM 2.28 // RSM 3.01, South Kensington
Imperial College’s research into the Human Microbiome generates considerable excitement and has the potential to make important contributions to human health. Our event on 16th September offered the opportunity to hear from and meet academics and clinicians working in the field of the human microbiome and its applications in gut, lung, skin and reproductive health. There was a focus on key research projects and how this work is being translated into products and patient care.
Organised in partnership with the Imperial Microbiome Network.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medtech/events/past-events/innovations-in-human-microbiome-research/
MedTech Links: Innovations in Medical Diagnostic Technologies
Thursday 18th April 2024 13:00 – 18:30
RSM 2.28 // RSM 3.01, South Kensington
This event in the Imperial MedTech Links series explored Imperial College innovations in Medical Diagnostics Technologies.
Molecular, sequencing, AI and data analytics tools are rapidly changing the world of diagnostics in all disease areas. This event allowed attendees to hear from Imperial College researchers and clinicians about their work and learn about how we are translating research into practice for clinicians and their patients. This included opportunities to find out more about our capabilities and how innovators might access our laboratories and workspaces.
Find out more about MedTech Links events from 2023 and before, here:
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medtech/events/past-events/
These events are standalone items we’ve hosted and sessions we’ve spoken at.
In conversation with the NHS: How to submit an IRAS Ethics application
Friday 20th March // 09:00 - 13:00
Attendees joined us at this online session on Friday 20th March to hear from the NHS about the process of submitting an Integrated Research Application System (IRAS) ethics application. Whether you are submitting your first IRAS application, or need some help with a particular section, this session was fantastically informative. There was dedicated Q&A time and attendees could submit questions for the Q&A through the registration form.
The course was designed to supplement the existing IRAS and HRA guidance by working through the system live. It concentrated on those questions and functions that many applicants struggle with and gave attendees the opportunity to ask questions about both the system and the submission process and to see the best way to ensure applications fully reflects the detail of a project.
Course objectives
At the end of the course attendees had learned:
1. Understanding the function of the three separate versions of IRAS
2. Understanding what information is required in an application and how best to provide it
3. Becoming familiar with the submission process for different bodies
Navigating your Innovations: Into the NHS
Wednesday 20th November 2024 // 09:00 – 12:30
Hosted in partnership with Barts Life Sciences
Calling all MedTech innovators and academics with a start-up/SME!
In partnership with Barts Life Sciences, MedTechONE will be holding a workshop that tackles the challenges faced when trying to get your innovation into the NHS. A team of experts will share their knowledge on Navigating the NHS, NHS business cases and NHS procurement.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/183746/navigating-your-medtech-innovations-into-the-nhs/
Mohn Mingle: Medical Technologies for Paediatric Care
Tuesday 24th September 2024 // 15:00 – 16:30
The MedTechONE Collaborative team were invited to speak at September 2024’s Mohn Mingle on their capabilities to support medtech projects at Imperial.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/249296/mohn-mingle-networking-research-meetings-kick/
