Innovation at MFT: Meet the Team and Collaborate

On Tuesday 10 September 2024, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust’s (MFT) Innovation Team brought together colleagues from across the NHS, academia and industry – including current partners and potential collaborators to showcase our innovation offer at MFT.

This Innovation at MFT; Meet the Team and Collaborate event promoted the Innovation Team’s expertise and areas of activity, highlighting current partnerships and collaborations to demonstrate how new innovators and partners could work with the Trust.

It was fantastic to see great industry representation from Roche Diagnostics, Lucid Group, Microsoft, genedrive plc, Siemens Healthineers, QIAGEN, Innovate UK and many more. We were pleased to welcome Pat Bartoli, Director of City Centre Growth and Infrastructure at Manchester City Council who opened the event sharing exciting upcoming developments such as the completion of CityLabs 4.0 at Oxford Road Campus and the building of Greenheys, which will become home to UK Biobank. Mark Cubbon, MFT Group Chief Executive, presented the Trust’s unique selling point as being one of Europe’s largest clinical-academic campuses and the largest NHS Trust in the country, putting MFT at the epicentre of cutting-edge healthcare research and innovation.

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