3 May 2012
Chinese State Councillor Madame Liu Yandong paid a visit to Imperial on 15 April, where she learnt more about the College and its links with China, before taking a tour of the robotic surgery facilities in the College’s Hamlyn Centre, part of the Institute of Global Health Innovation.
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14 November 2011
The head of the London Olympic organising committee, Lord Sebastian Coe, along with around 150 delegates from a range of sporting organisations, attended a conference, which was organised by Imperial’s Institute of Global Health Innovation’s Hamlyn Centre and UK Sport on 10 October.
The annual Elite Sport Performance Research in Training with Pervasive Sensing (ESPRIT) conference was held at Dorney Lake, which is the venue for rowing and kayak events for the 2012 Olympic Games. The event provided Imperial researchers with the opportunity to talk about new sensor technologies that they are developing for elite athletes to improve their training in the lead up to the London 2012 Olympics as part of the ESPRIT project.
The ESPRIT project is a five-year collaborative research consortium that is funded by EPSRC and led by Imperial. The aim of the programme is for researchers to work with elite athletes and develop new sensor technologies that can help them to improve their training and performance. The long-term plan is to use these sensors and the knowledge gathered during the project to improve healthcare in the UK.
Lord Coe (pictured above left) was the keynote speaker at the conference and he gave his personal insights into how sport science has evolved over the years. Professor Yang, Director of the Hamlyn Centre and ESPRIT research programme (pictured above right), said:
“Sensor technology is set to revolutionise the way we monitor our health and wellbeing. Working with elite athletes using sensor technology provides us with an incredibly unique insight into how the body performs, especially under stressful situations. The conference gave us an opportunity to showcase advances in our research. London 2012 is on our doorstep and we hope that our work on the side lines contributes to UK athletes winning gold. We also hope to yield valuable insights in to the body to improve healthcare in the future.”
— Neha Okhandiar, Institute of Global Health Innovation
Read about more conference highlights here
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13 July 2011
Researchers at the Institute of Global Health Innovation’s Hamlyn Centre received the Best Medical Robotics Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, held in May.
The winning paper introduces the design features of the joint mechanism used in the i-Snake® device, which incorporates state-of-the-art imaging and intuitive manipulation technologies that will allow surgeons to carry out more complex procedures within the body.
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7 March 2011
Professor Guang-Zhong Yang and his team from the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery (Global Health Innovation) have won the Bluetooth Innovator of the Year Prize and also the Healthcare Category Award at the 2010 Innovation World Cup Awards, held in Munich in February. The awards recognise their development of wireless sensor technology worn behind the ear to measure balance, posture, activity level and heart rate.
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10 February 2011
Metabolic profiling of tissue samples could transform the way surgeons make decisions in the operating theatre, said Imperial researchers at a new laboratory launched on 12 January.
Tags: Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Institute of Global Health, Surgery and Cancer
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16 December 2010
A new iPhone application, which empowers patients to make more informed decisions and better manage their health, was launched on 17 November.
Tags: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Institute of Global Health, Medicine, News
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11 October 2010
Reporter speaks to Professor Lord Ara Darzi, Chair of the Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI), about the aims of the Institute launched on 4 October and why a new approach is needed to find solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems.
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11 October 2010
The pioneer of robotic surgery and former health minister Professor Lord Ara Darzi is taking the helm of an institute at Imperial that aims to develop innovative approaches to global health challenges. The Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI), which was launched on 4 October, will bring together world-leading academics in medical science, engineering, business and health policy to improve people’s health and reduce health inequalities in developed and developing countries.
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