Won MedTech Accelerator Award
LocANTS, the 1st phase of the ResPNse program, won the prestigious MedTech Accelerator funding award with a reward of around £125k. Medtech Accelerator is a joint venture led by innovation hub Health Enterprise East (HEE) in partnership with the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP), Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, the Eastern Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) and Essex County Council. The scheme is designed to support new technologies during the crucial initial phases of development by supplying funding that can be directed towards prototype development and early-stage testing, both of which help products establish commercial viability.
Dr Paul Seabright, Chair of the Medtech Accelerator Investment Committee, said: “The innovations supported in the latest round of funding are illustrative of the broad range of ideas that the Medtech Accelerator is able to support. Critical patient transfer data and corneal replacement surgery represent very diverse and unrelated areas of healthcare. However, all our projects are inextricably linked by potential to radically transform patient care through innovation. We look forward to working with the teams at both LocANTS and CGSR to help bring their technologies to our hospitals.”
We are very proud and privileged that our innovation is rightly recognised and acknowledged by the MedTech Accelerator team. We are very thankful to very enormous support till date, and looking forward to closely working with them and all of their partner-stakeholders in the future to bring the key benefits of this innovation to the most vulnerable babies and children.
Finalists - 2024 & 2023 Great British Entreneurs Award - Purpose Entrepreneur of the year (East of England)
Finalists - 2024 & 2023 UK Startup Awards - MedTech and HealthTech (East of England)
Finalists - 2020 Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards
LocANTS has been chosen as a finalist under the category of Tech for Good Award at the 2020 Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards. The benefits of LocANTS span across the lifetime of the beneficiary babies and children. Each child affected by this innovation can expect to have a better shot at life particularly as they grow up into adolescence and adulthood with lesser dependence on social care. However, since in most settings, health care and social care are often not as closely integrated as we would like, this creates a challenge in navigating operational complexities in brining such innovations into mainstream. We are delighted that the organiser of this award have recognised the "Good" that this technology innovation can bring and are very much looking forward to winning the award!
Finalists - Health Enterprise East Innovation Awards 2017
We are proud to be selected as the finalists at the Health Enterprise East Innovation Awards 2017. At the very inception of the proposal, this provides us with a strong sense of motivation and support. We look forward to stronger engagement with the Health Enterprise East as well as various associated organisations in the coming times as we build upon our proposal to significantly improve the quality of service in the acute care transport space.