About
We drive innovation and support the development of HealthTech solutions to address the unmet needs outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan. We offer expertise to assess innovations and enhance the efficiency of translating them into practical applications, ensuring quicker access to technology for patients. We strengthen collaboration between industry, academia, and the health and care system, expanding capacity at this interface. Additionally, we foster inward investment and trade by assisting companies, especially SMEs, in bringing their innovations to market in the UK.
Work with businesses to support the development of medical devices, diagnostics and digital technologies.
Vision
Combine our clinical and research expertise, and the voices of our diverse and engaged local community, with the capabilities of industry collaborators to ensure that innovations that we develop work for the diverse patient population that we serve. By involving the public, patients and carers we ensure that our research has clinical impact. This will also help to reduce inequalities -cultural, ethnic, socioeconomic, gender, other protected characteristics.
Mission
Actively contribute to improving the health of the population by supporting effective and innovative solutions being adopted into clinical practice. We bring together the vast expertise from GSTFT and King’s and make it accessible to researchers and industry throughout the UK. We support industry to bring innovations to market in the UK and internationally. We also support industry through product development and in the generation of evidence to speed up the regulatory approval of new devices.
Leadership
Professor Amedeo Chiribiri
HRC Director and Co-Theme Lead of Cardiovascular Diseases in Adults
Professor Amedeo Chiribiri is the HRC Director and Co-Theme Lead of Cardiovascular Diseases in Adults. He is a Consultant Cardiologist at GSTFT and Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging at King’s. He was the Director for the NIHR Cardiovascular MedTech Co-operative (MIC) at GSTFT, and oversees a large portfolio of industry collaborations. Professor Chiribiri's research is in cardiovascular imaging and biomedical engineering.
Professor Chiribiri is the Clinical Lead for Cardiovascular MRI and Head of Department for Cardiovascular Imaging at the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (BMEIS), King’s. In these roles he leads the delivery of imaging and biomedical engineering clinical services, research and teaching, working closely with clinicians across the organisation, as well as local GPs and hospitals for tertiary services. The overarching strategy of his clinical and research activities is to apply innovative technologies to help improve patient outcomes and increase efficiency of care delivery.
Professor Chiribiri initiated and is the current Chair of the Special Interest Group on Quantitative Perfusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) within the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) and actively participates in both national and international bodies in the field of cardiovascular imaging. He advises the UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and Public Health England in the field of myocarditis and pericarditis in relation to receiving Covid-19 vaccinations.
Professor Chiribiri initiated and is the current Chair of the Special Interest Group on Quantitative Perfusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) within the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) and actively participates in both national and international bodies in the field of cardiovascular imaging. He advises the UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and Public Health England in the field of myocarditis and pericarditis in relation to receiving Covid-19 vaccinations.
Dr Rachel Clough
HRC Co-Director and Co-Theme Lead of Cardiovascular Interventions
Dr Rachel Clough is the HRC Co-Director and Co-Theme Lead of Cardiovascular Interventions. She is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Clinical Senior Lecturer in the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Science. She was the deputy director of the Cardiovascular Medtech Co-operative. She works at the interface of NHS, academia and industry and has knowledge and experience of working with companies from start-ups to SMEs and large multi-nationals.
Within the School, as part of the Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering, Rachel set up and is Co-Director of the Entrepreneur in Residence programme, which supports the development of innovative medical devices, digital health solutions and disruptive medtech companies. She has worked with Sally Davies at the Department of Health and Social Care, initially in R&D and then within the Chief Medical Officer’s office on strategies for effective collaboration between the NHS, academia and industry. She specialises in technology-driven endovascular surgery having trained as a prestigious National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Lecturer in London and later as a Conseil National des Universités funded Associate Professor in Lille, France. Rachel has a first-class undergraduate degree and a PhD in biomedical engineering.
Dr Emmanuel Akinluyi
HRC Deputy Director and Theme Lead of Methodology
Dr Emmanuel (Didi) Akinluyi is the HRC Deputy Director and Theme Lead of Methodology. He is the Chief Biomedical Engineer at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and joint Head of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering, leading one of the largest Clinical Engineering Departments in the UK. In this capacity he leads on the safe and effective purchase, use and care of medical devices. He has overall responsibility for the implementation of medical devices policy and for achieving optimal compliance with legislation and best practice guidance in all areas using medical devices. He is a practising Consultant Clinical Scientist holding doctorates in Healthcare System Design, on forecasting and extracting value from 'Medical Technological Infrastructure'. He continues to lead work on modelling the impact of devices on patient outcomes.
Additionally he is the deputy Chief Medical Officer at Guy’s & St Thomas’, tasked with supporting technology translation, research, and innovation in practice development. As a London Clinical Engineering network lead, he plays an advisory role on technology translation and exploitation via the NHS England Chief-Scientific-Office's National Clinical Engineering Network, DHSC's Med Tech Directorate, and work with the MHRA.
Didi plays a core role in the training and academic teaching of the nation’s Clinical Scientists in Clinical Engineering, speaking to issues and opportunities for our scientific workforce with health system leaders (locally, and in NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care). He personally delivers or coordinates 4 modules as part the only NHSE-accredited MSc for training Clinical Engineering in England (At King's College London). He created/introduced the Healthcare Technology Design and Healthcare System design modules, and defined Systems-thinking and Design-methodology aspects of the updated curriculum for this professional group, while working with the National School for Healthcare Science within NHS England. He has delivered the Healthcare Technology Design module he created, to every NHS Clinical Scientist in Clinical Engineering trained on the Scientific Training Programme in the last decade. He is among our team seeking to uplift the HealthTech-translation workforce as part of the HRC’s capability building activities and will similarly work to embed HealthTech research practice in the training of future generations.
Didi has first-hand experience of the translational journey: He is an inventor and innovator, with patents for devices spanning clinical specialisms.
Didi plays a core role in the training and academic teaching of the nation’s Clinical Scientists in Clinical Engineering, speaking to issues and opportunities for our scientific workforce with health system leaders (locally, and in NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care). He personally delivers or coordinates 4 modules as part the only NHSE-accredited MSc for training Clinical Engineering in England (At King's College London). He created/introduced the Healthcare Technology Design and Healthcare System design modules, and defined Systems-thinking and Design-methodology aspects of the updated curriculum for this professional group, while working with the National School for Healthcare Science within NHS England. He has delivered the Healthcare Technology Design module he created, to every NHS Clinical Scientist in Clinical Engineering trained on the Scientific Training Programme in the last decade. He is among our team seeking to uplift the HealthTech-translation workforce as part of the HRC’s capability building activities and will similarly work to embed HealthTech research practice in the training of future generations.
Didi has first-hand experience of the translational journey: He is an inventor and innovator, with patents for devices spanning clinical specialisms.