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The Royal Academy of Engineering has announced the finalists for the 2019 MacRobert Award, the most prestigious prize for UK engineering innovation.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the MacRobert Award is run by the Royal Academy of Engineering and recognises engineering teams that demonstrate outstanding innovation, tangible societal benefit and proven commercial success within the UK engineering sector.

The four finalists for the 2019 MacRobert Award include OrganOx (Oxford) for creating the metra, a world-first device that can keep a human donor liver functioning outside the body for up to 24 hours prior to transplant.

Earlier this year The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved the use in the NHS of ex-vivo machine perfusion for preservation of livers donated for transplants. One variation of the technique, normothermic machine perfusion, was developed by University of Oxford Department of Engineering spinout OrganOx Ltd as a result of a cross-disciplinary collaboration between Professor Constantin Coussios (Institute of Biomedical Engineering) and Professor Peter Friend (Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences).

Read more (University of Oxford website)

 

Media coverage

Oxford's OrganOx is shortlisted for MacRobert Award 2019
Mirage News, 11/06/2019