A partnership of people from the health, science and business sectors in Cambridge is collaborating with the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA – the UK government’s new research funding agency) to create new neurotechnologies, including brain implants that could treat dementia.
The 3-year partnership between the University of Cambridge and ARIA is intended to support radical thinkers who have struggled to find funding, space and mentoring to stress-test their ideas.
Professor George Malliaras, University of Cambridge Department of Engineering and one of the Project Leaders, says:
“Miniaturised devices have the potential to change the lives of millions of people currently suffering from neurological conditions and diseases where drugs have no effect. But we are working at the very edge of what is possible in medicine, and it is hard to find the support and funding to try radical, new things. That is why the partnership with ARIA is so exhilarating, because it is giving brilliant people the tools to turn their original ideas into commercially viable devices that are cheap enough to have a global impact.”
You can find out more here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-joins-forces-with-aria-to-fast-track-radical-new-technologies-to-revolutionise-brain