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Sensor100 February 2017 20
Healthcare
House of Commons Select
Committee Hears
Evidence on Sensors for
Cancer Diagnosis
The UK Parliament Select Committee on Science and Technology has the
responsibility to ensure that Government policy and decision-making are based
on good scientific and engineering advice and evidence. There are eleven mem-
bers of the Committee drawn from cross parties; one is a medical doctor, one
has a doctorate in social science, the remainder have some, or none, science
background.
In 2016, the Committee issued an invitation to submit ideas for it to take for-
ward “My Science Inquiry”. Over 70 ideas were submitted, of which nine were
selected for presentation at a “Dragons Den” style meeting of the Committee
on 1st February. Sensor100 was among the nine selected submissions on the
topic of ”
Click to view
Sensor100’s evidence
before the Committee
- under AGENDA on the
right hand side Click on:
10:58:42Witnesses
Michael Brand
Sensor100
The Committee selected two presentations fro further inquiry:“Algorithms”
and “Hydrogen and Fuel Cells”. It further decided that it will follow up “Early
Stage Cancer Diagnosis” as part of its regular sessions with the UK Chief
Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies.
Read the Committee’s
Acknowledgements:
Sensor100 was advised by: Imperial College Department of Bioengineering; KTN Electron-
ics, Sensors, Photonics; QuantumDx; Siemens Healthcare; University of Bath. Statistics from
Cancer Research UK.