Robotic-assisted surgery research pump-priming grant awards

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In 2023, the Royal College of Surgeons of England offered a one-off programme of awards, funded by the Saven Research and Development Programme, to consultants, senior lecturers, SAS doctors and post-doctoral trainees in surgery working at hospitals and universities within the UK. The aim of the awards was to give assistance to such surgeons undertaking research into robotic-assisted surgery, usually in the early stages of their independent research careers.

Awards of £25,000 were made competitively and used flexibly to support each award holder’s research programme.

Awards

Manish Chand, University College London / The Griffin Institute
Evaluation of robotic surgical technical skills through automated performance metrics and application of artificial intelligence

Sheraz Markar, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford
Development of a Video Based Analysed (VBA) Tool for Surgical Quality Assurance of Robotic
Gastrectomy

Oladejo Olaleye, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust / University of Leicester
Adaptation of the COBRA flexible robot to trans-oral head and neck cancer surgery

Ricci Plastow, University College London Hospitals
Investigating the efficacy of virtual simulation for the development of Basic Robotic Skills in Orthopaedic Surgery

Nicholas Raison, King’s College London / King’s College Hospital
Predicting robotic surgical skill acquisition with machine learning using a validated protocol on 2 clinical robotic surgical systems

Kapil Sahnan, St Mark’s Hospital, The National Bowel Hospital
Understanding the evolution of robotic IBD surgery and devising a surgical curriculum

Contact

For any questions, please contact: robotics@rcseng.ac.uk