This translational toolkit for health technologies was developed by Dr Claudia Lindner as part of her Sir Henry Dale Fellowship and in her role as Translation Lead for the Christabel Pankhurst Institute in collaboration with Dr Fiona Foster, Dr Elli Marinopoulou and Dr Alessandro Faroni from Translation Manchester.

The development of the toolkit was funded by a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society (223267/Z/21/Z), as well as the Wellcome Trust University of Manchester Translational Partnership Award (222061/Z/20/Z).

The translational roadmaps are licenced under a CC-By Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Acknowledgements

We are thankful to the following experts who have provided invaluable input, support and feedback during the development of the toolkit.

The University of Manchester: Prof. John Ainsworth, Penny Hubbard Cristinacce, Prof. Alex Frangi, Dr Michael Kipping, Dr Gareth Kitchen, Prof. Kostas Kostarelos, Karon Mee, Prof. Bill Newman, Prof. Niels Peek, Dr Adam Reid, Dr Videha Sharma, Prof. Chris Taylor, Ms Nicola Telfer, Dr Alex Thompson, Mr Macaulay Turner, Dr Mohammed Zubair
Other: Hardian Health (Hugh Harvey), Henry Royce Institute (Lisa Hearty, Katharine Dobb), Emily Lam, Lucid Group Ltd. (Alistair Williamson), QMS Consultancy Ltd (Richard Hall), Quiddity Health (Thomas Cooke, Sam Holland, Mark Duman), University of Manchester Innovation Factory (Dr Sonia Nikolovski), Vocal (Dr Bella Starling)

A particular thank you to those who were additionally involved in providing insightful case studies on the development of medical devices:

Software as Medical Device: Prof. Tariq Aslam, Prof. Emma Stanmore
Medical Device: Dr John McDermott, Prof. Jaclyn Smith
Invasive Medical Device: Prof. Jason Wong, Prof. Julie Gough

The support of Louise Lever, Theresa Teng, Joshua Woodcock, Ian Hinder and Nigel Green from Research IT at The University of Manchester is gratefully acknowledged.