EPSRC - NIHR Healthcare Technology Co-operative (HTC) Partnership Award - Unify: A network focused on the treatment of fracture non-unions

这项建议的重点是解决在修复和康复骨不连骨折，特别是长骨和颅面部创伤方面尚未满足的主要临床需求。骨不连是一块无法愈合的断骨。这些都是平民和军人受伤造成的，包括癌症的后果，并导致痛苦、痛苦和尊严丧失。我们的目标是创建一个协调的自给自足的网络，将创伤HTC和其他主要的英国临床研究中心(包括民用和军用)连接起来，以便从科学和技术研究社区获得解决方案，并帮助将其转化为临床。该网络将与EPSRC和其他机构支持的医疗保健技术专业知识和优秀研究中心联系起来，并与业界和包括患者在内的其他关键利益攸关方联系起来。该网络将通过一项既有经过验证的又有新的组成部分的活动计划，确保这些不同的社区有能力共同探索那些新的科学和技术机会有望解决重要临床问题的领域。

This proposal is tightly focussed on addressing major unmet clinical needs in the repair and rehabilitation of non-union fractures, in particular for long-bone and cranio-facial trauma. A non-union is a broken bone that fails to heal. These result from both civilian and military injuries including the consequences of cancer and lead to pain, suffering and loss of dignity. Our aim is to create a co-ordinated self-sustaining network linking the Trauma HTC and other major UK clinical research centres, both civilian and military, in order to pull solutions from the science and technology research community and assist their translation to the clinic. The network will link with centres of expertise and research excellence in healthcare technologies supported by EPSRC and others, and to industry and other key stakeholders including patients. This network will ensure, by a programme of activities with both proven and novel components, that these disparate communities are empowered to explore together those areas where new scientific and technological opportunities have the promise to resolve important clinical problems.