Healthcare Scientist (HCS) Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Programme

Driving innovation through measurement science to help support a world class healthcare system.

The HCS KTP Programme offers a unique opportunity for healthcare scientists from across the UK to build long-term partnerships between clinical, research and industry teams at leading centres of excellence in science and technology. In partnership with other UK National Measurement System (NMS) organisations and the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), the NML provide world-leading chemical and bio-measurement expertise through the HCS KTP Programme.

Through facilitating early interaction and knowledge exchange, the programme aims to speed up the identification and dissemination of high value new approaches to improving patient outcomes and increasing efficiency, whilst promoting economic growth and inward investment in the life sciences.

The eighteen-month programme is designed to enable senior healthcare scientists to remain in clinical service whilst exchanging skills and expertise with NMS scientists to create, expand, test or implement innovative ideas to improve the quality of patient care.

Find out more about the programme and the key themes.

Round 4 projects:

James Hawley, Principal Clinical Scientist, MRC Chain-Florey Clinical Research Fellow, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Project title: Urine steroid metabolomics (USM) for the differential diagnosis of adrenal tumours

Zoe Barclay, Principal Clinical Scientist, Synnovis Analytics

Project title: Acylcarnitine Analysis Harmonisation: Development of Acylcarnitine Reference Materials

Marcus Pond, Clinical Scientist: Virology, North West London Pathology

Project title: Development of materials for CMV RNA diagnostics

Billy Wood, Clinical Scientist, Hywel Dda University Health Board

Project : TriTech Institute and Innovation, specialising in research and evaluation of medical devices and software

Chris Harrington, Deputy Director SAS Trace Element Laboratory, Deputy Director UK NEQAS for Trace Elements and Peptide, Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Project : Investigation into the Feasibility of Mass Spectrometry Platforms to Improve the Traceability of Clinical Measurements

Find out more about the current projects here.

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Previous projects

Round 3

David Hall- Quantitative SPECT/CT for dosimetry and diagnosis

Ian Butler- Standardisation of 16S and 18S rRNA gene sequencing by Oxford Nanopore Technology

Mary Alikian- Bridging the Gap between Technological Advances and Standardized Clinical Implementation

Sarah Misson-Yates- Data sharing and protocols for quality improvement through national networks

Stuart Scott- Standardising acute myeloid leukaemia minimal residual disease testing

Round 2

Isabelle Delon- Measurement uncertainty in genomics testing: Development of assessment guidelines

Jo Adaway- Development of a reference method for aldosterone

Kathryn Harris- The evaluation of a nanopore sequencing device for real-time detection Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in a near-patient setting

Nicholas Hickson- Analytical and clinical validation of a next generation sequencing (NGS) liquid biopsy gene panel (“NGS Liquid panel”) for treatment decision making in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

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