Six winners of a Department of Health funded competition, as part of the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI), are set to receive a share of over £2 million to help develop cutting-edge technology solutions to help kidney patients.
The competition is managed by the National Institute for Health Research Healthcare Technology Co-operative Devices for Dignity (D4D), and aims to give small businesses the opportunity to develop ideas and technologies that could prevent kidney disease, allow earlier diagnosis, and give patients with kidney failure greater independence, enabling treatment closer to home. They will also play a key role in reducing the significant burden of treatments that individuals living with severe kidney disease often endure.
The six winners will develop solutions over the next two years, to address some of the most pressing issues in kidney care. One team will focus on the prevention of acute kidney injury, a condition that is estimated to affect 4.9% of hospital patients and in severe cases can be associated with a 10-20% chance of death within one year.
Another team will look at the early identification of peritoneal infections, which is the commonest cause for hospitalisation of patients on peritoneal dialysis. Peritoneal dialysis is a technique used for patients with severe kidney disease that uses the patient’s own body tissues inside the abdominal cavity as a filter.
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