Dewar Finlay is the Head of School of Engineering at Ulster University. He is a Professor of Electronic Systems and has 20+ years of research experience in the development of healthcare technology. His work has focused on the development of computer algorithm for the detection of cardiac disease. He has secured over £50 milllion in research funding and published over 150 research articles.

Becky is Professor of Healthcare Engineering at UCL and Chief Research Officer at UCL Partners. Her research combines approaches from the engineering, physical, data and health sciences to better understand disease and injury and to develop health technologies to improve patient outcomes. She works across a range of clinical application areas including cancer, nervous system injury and critical care.

Laura is an associate professor at CMIC and the UCL Department of Computer Science. She works on computational modelling of MRI to establish new non-invasive biomarkers for cancer. She developed the VERDICT-MRI image analysis technique for cancer imaging, the first non-invasive microstructure imaging technique for cancer.

Derek is a Professor of Digital Health at UCL and an industry director. He founded IXICO in 2005, providing image analysis solutions to the pharmaceutical industry to evaluate efficacy and safety of new medicines. He took the company onto the London stock exchange in 2013. In 2018 he founded Panoramic Digital Health, developing wearable sensors, now being used in clinical studies run by academia and the pharmaceutical industry. His research interests include innovative data analytics to measure meaningful aspects of disease from digital data, regulatory science, to ensure that the performance of innovative technology is well understood and that risks related to issues as diverse as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity are well understood and mitigated.

Assumpta is a Professor of Ageing and Health in the Institute of Nursing and Health Research at Ulster University. Her clinical background lies in the field of gerontological nursing and the care of older people. She has an extensive publication profile with over 210 publications in a range of academic journals and has presented at over 130 national and international conferences. She has generated almost £5m in grant income to support initiatives aimed at improving the lives of older people and their families with a particular focus on people living with dementia.

Jim McLaughlin CBE, is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of Ulster’s Nanotechnology and Integrated Bioengineering Centre and lead of the £43M Centre for Digital Healthcare Technology. With over £100M of research income awarded his expertise ranges from nano-based sensors to applications in point-of-care-sensors and medical-diagnostics, leading to successful spin-outs with high impact products.

Neil Sebire is Professor of Pathology and Chief Research Information Officer at GOSH/UCL. He is Director the GOSH Clinical Informatics Research Programme and GOSH DRIVE Unit, which has several years experience bringing engineering expertise and students together with clinical teams for research, as well as working with industry partners.

Dr Adam Dubis is an enterprise minded educator, specialising in image and health data analysis. He started his career in the US, studying biology and chemistry, and participating in his university’s health entrepreneurship courses. Upon entering graduate school at the Medical College of Wisconsin, his background mixed with engineering resulting in commercialisation of several analytical tools and methods for ophthalmology. Moving to London in 2013, he has continued his enterprise activities consulting for a number of start-ups, as well as commercialising health analytics through patent filings and spin out companies.

Brian is Professor of Biomedical Materials and Associate Dean for Research & Impact within the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment at Ulster University. Brian’s research interests are directed toward the development of advanced biomaterials for medical device applications with particular emphasis on interactions at the sub-micron to nanometre scale for applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He has also worked in health technology evaluation and its role in medical device design and service delivery

Geoff is Professor of Healthcare Engineering, Imaging, and Enterprise at UCL. His main research interest is medical imaging, with a focus on the development of new MRI methods and translation of research into the ‘real world’ for positive impact on health. He has supervised 29 PhD students to date, who have gone on to successful careers in industry, academia, and healthcare. In addition to his academic role, he is CEO of the imaging company Bioxydyn.

Raymond is a Professor of Human-Computer Systems at Ulster University, and has research interests within digital health and medical informatics. Specific interests include: applied healthcare data science/machine learning (knowledge discovery, predictive modelling), digital health interventions (health apps, chatbots, UX engineering/analysis/testing) and clinical decision making research (eye tracking, information/interaction design, clinical decision support systems).

Jamie is the Centre for Doctoral Training Manager based at UCL. She has worked in a variety of research support roles at UCL, including 4 years co-ordinating a UKRI funded Doctoral Training Partnership.

Ruth is the Centre for Doctoral Training Manager based at Ulster University. She has worked in the School of Engineering at Ulster for the past 7 years in research administration working on the School’s diverse research portfolio and, most recently, managing the School’s administration team.