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| Entering the Awards introduces innovators to a valuable support network, and can provide the critical endorsement and publicity necessary to help secure investor financing as well as clinical and commercial contacts. |
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| K-ink Inhaler - Low Cost Breath Activated Inhaler |
| John bell & his team |
| Winners of the BUPA & Grant Thornton Awards for Patient Care and Business |
 Asthma sufferers have more than doubled in the last 20 years and now number roughly one in every 14 people. The pressurised inhaler is easily the most popular device in current treatments - familiar, portable and robust; however, asthmatics have serious problems using these correctly. When first generation breath-activated pressurised inhalers hit the market we thought the problem was solved but they are very expensive and so are rarely prescribed.
A revolutionary new device has been developed by a team from Leicestershire that is based on a simple principle, kinking a tube – like your garden hose – to control liquid flow, and allows asthmatics to get their drugs at less than 10% of the current device cost.
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| Lens Free Ophthalmoscope |
| Roger Armour, Retired NHS General Surgeon |
| Overall Winner & Winner of the Best Innovation to Improve Global Health |
 Looking at the back of the eye can be very revealing. Serious diseases such as glaucoma, diabetes, high blood pressure, brain tumours and cerebral malaria can be diagnosed. Unfortunately, ophthalmoscopes are expensive, heavy and complicated to use. A vascular surgeon from Hertfordshire has invented a simple ophthalmoscope which costs pennies to make and weighs only 30g (1 ounce). It has no lenses so spectacle-wearers may need to keep their glasses on.
37 million people globally are blind, three-quaters of which is preventable or curable. The simplicity and availability of the device could have wide implications in the developing world and it could be the next wind-up radio of healthcare.
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| One Stop Diabetes Screening & Education |
| Jacqueline Jones, Diabetes Specialist Nurse |
| Winner of the Pfizer Award for Best Educational Innovation |
 Effective diabetes management is best achieved by a partnership between the health professional and an empowered patient but all too often such partnerships fail to materialise. Fed up with the situation, a resourceful and energetic Diabetes Specialist Nurse has set up a screening centre in her local church hall, for vision testing and problems relating to diabetes using a computer link to her surgery.
She since has ran a rolling programme of workshops promoting self care, healthy lifestyle and complication prevention involving dieticians, podiatrists, exercise physiologists and of course herself.
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| Growing Bone Prosthesis |
| Mr Steven Cannon & Mr Tim Briggs, Orthopaedic Surgeons |
| Winner of the BUPA Award to Improve Child Health |
 Fortunately bone cancers in children are rare. But when they do happen they require drastic surgery. In the past this may have involved amputation, but then prosthetic replacements enabled limbs to be saved. However, because the prosthesis doesn't grow, the child would usually be subjected to further operations to lengthen the prosthesis to equal the length of the opposite limb, with all the risks that go with surgery including infection.
Surgeons from a leading orthopaedic centre have now developed a prosthesis, already tried in three patients, that can be lengthened remotely mimicking natural growth of the bone without the need for further painful and risky surgery.
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| First Burst |
| Dr Helen Lee & Team, University of Cambridge |
| Winner of the DPP Award for Best Diagnostic Innovation |
 A team from Cambridge have developed a new diagnostic test for chlamydia, responsible for several diseases that can cause blindness and infertility. Alogside the diagnostic test was a requirement to ensure a first-catch urine sample and so the team set to develop a new medical device, First-Burst that ensures a clean sample every time. It is the teams intention to set up a company to commercialise the technologies.
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| Suture-Button Ankle Repair |
| Brian Thornes, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Ireland |
| Winner of the Johnson & Johnson Award for Best Medical Device |
 Anyone who has ever broken their ankle will understand the importance of getting the treatment right first time in order to get back to full fitness as quickly as possible, particularly when surgery is required to reconstruct damaged ligaments - as West Ham and Northern Ireland International, Steve Lomas, found out when told he would be out of action for months following failed surgery on his ankle.
The ankle syndesmosis “TightRope™” fixation system, is a revolutionary new system to allow the ankle ligaments to be reconstructed without the use of metalwork. His device has since been successfully licensed to an Orthopaedic Products Company and was recently used on Chicago Bears’ quarterback, Rex Grossman.
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| Hope of a Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease |
| Professor Steven Rose, Open University |
| Winner of the Lilly-BI Award for Best Mental Health Innovation |
 New research by a team from the Open University has discovered what they believe to be the biochemical basis for memory loss in Alzheimer's Disease, which affects nearly a million people in the UK alone.
They have identified a small molecule which they claim restores the lost memory and acts as a cognitive enhancer and neuroprotector in laboratory animals. The University has filed patents around their idea which they hope to turn into a new drug to treat early stage Alzheimer's Disease.
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| Nexagon |
| David Becker, Lecturer, London |
| Winner of the Nomura Award for Best Biotech Innovation |
 An estimated 95 million people worldwide suffer from wounds. While acute wounds heal uneventfully, chronic wounds such as ulcers do not and often persist for months or years. In the case of the elderly, this increases average hospital stays by at least one week, resulting in an additional $1.5 billion in healthcare costs in the USA alone.
A team from London, in collaboration with Auckland University, have developed a revolutionary new technology which inhibits a novel target in wound healing, a gap junction channel protein. The product, applied topically in a gel dramatically accelerates wound healing and reduces inflammation and scarring.
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| Dr Dan & His Animated Friends |
| Eoin O'Sullivan, Veronica Kinsler & Team |
| Winner of the Orange Award for Best Health Communication Innovation |
 First there was Postman Pat, then Bob the Builder and who better to educate young children than their fantasy friend? But who teaches toddlers about medical matters, like going to visit the doctor, having an injection or the arrival of a new baby? The answer is Doctor Dan. Dreamed up by a team of parents (who happen to be doctors themselves) around their boisterous 3-4 year old boys. They have developed a range of engaging characters such as Beep the Thermometer who blushes red when someone is not well, Wink the Eye Chart who winks at everyone as they walk through the door, and Sally Stethoscope, Dr Dan's right hand instrument.
The story lines have been produced to ensure high entertainment value to the under 7's, although each story also carries an important message. Just imagine how easy it will be to apply your two year old's sunblock when Dr Dan is on the bottle!
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