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BHP People – “find your niche”
Dr Karen Crowdy, Director of Research Strategy and Operations at the Aston Institute of Health and Neurodevelopment, is one of the inaugural recipients of the new BHP People Award.
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New national Centre of Excellence in AI and digital health awarded to Birmingham
BHP founding member the University of Birmingham has been awarded £1M to help the UK unlock the opportunity of AI and digital healthcare while ensuring technologies are safe and effective.
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New AI tools set to advance early cancer detection and prevention
Birmingham researchers are to play a role in Cancer Research UK’s recently announced £10 million AI detection programme, jointly supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR…

Researchers at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital secure funding to develop cancer-killing injectable paste for bone tumours
The Dubrowsky Lab at BHP member the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital (ROH) has secured a £110k grant from Orthopaedic Research UK to develop an injectable paste with anticancer and bone regenerative proper…

Aston University and Birmingham Children’s Hospital study shows diagnosis and treatment of preschool wheeze needs improvement
A study led by Aston University’s Dr Gemma Heath and Dr Prasad Nagakumar from Birmingham Children’s Hospital – both BHP member organisations – has shown that treatment and diagnosis for preschool wh…

Increasing transparency and tackle potential bias in medical AI technologies: BHP researchers publish new recommendations
Patients will be better able to benefit from innovations in medical artificial intelligence (AI) if a new set of internationally agreed recommendations – published in The Lancet Digital Health and NE…