East Midlands Innovation Day returns to a packed room

On Thursday, 4 July, over 200 representatives from life science companies from multinationals to micro-businesses and medtech to pharmaceuticals came together to celebrate Medilink EM Innovation Day.

As well as the wide variety of speakers covering a vast array of topics, there was also an opportunity for Innovation Day delegates to meet with over 30 life science companies who exhibited at the conference.

Medilink EM CEO Darren Clark formally launched the Medilink EM Annual Report for 2018/19 and delegates also had the opportunity to attend the Medilink EM Summer Networking, which took place after the day’s events, featuring a talk on the Growing Rehabilitation Industries Project (GRIP). GRIP is a University project between the Universities of Loughborough, Leicester and Nottingham Trent, with Medilink EM supporting the project as a key industry partner, to help develop the Medical Technology and Rehabilitation sectors in Nottingham, Loughborough and Leicester.  

Speakers at the event included: Professor Chas Bountra OBE, pro-vice chancellor for innovation, University of Oxford; Professor Dan Clark, head of clinical engineering at Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust; and Laura Boyd, deputy director, NHS Innovation Accelerator.