Newton, Mass., Oct. 4, 2023 – 4D Path, a pioneer in image analysis and developer of the 4D Q-Plasia Oncoreader (QPOR),TM today announced a new strategic partnership with the Innovation Pop-Up at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in the UK.
Celebrating its two-year anniversary in October 2023, the Innovation Pop-Up at Leeds Teaching Hospital is a growing international community of high-tech start-ups led by clinicians, scientists, and entrepreneurs that provides a valuable test bed for new innovations, technologies and ways of working within a real-life clinical environment before they are implemented in the NHS. Through this partnership, 4D Path will work with the NHS Histopathology department, the University of Leeds and the University of Bradford to validate its platform, which aims to improve access to precision medicine in oncology by providing more accurate and quantitative diagnoses, faster case review times, and higher throughput, all at a lower cost than traditional methods, thereby improving patient outcomes and experiences.
4D Path’s diagnostic platform is designed to use statistical physics and cell cycle dynamics to provide pathologists with insights into tumors’ underlying cancer biology from digitized histopathology images. To date, 4D Path has conducted several breast cancer investigations at the University of Leeds using its 4D Q-Plasia OncoReaderTM Breast platform, with plans to expand the remit of current trials across a range of other malignancies, including skin, lung, gynecological, and head and neck cancers.
Professor David Brettle, Chief Scientific Officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and founder of the Innovation Pop-Up, commented, “There are many synergies between the Innovation Pop-Up's work to advance modern medicine and 4D Path's novel approach to cancer diagnosis, so I am delighted that 4D Path has joined as a new member. Both 4D Path and the Trust’s Innovation Pop-Up leverage forward-thinking and technological advancements to solve healthcare’s most pressing issues. The Innovation Pop-Up at Leeds Teaching Hospitals provides an ideal platform to showcase 4D Path's advancements, working together to get the best benefits for patients.”
Rodrigo Navarro, MBA, co-founder and CEO of 4D Path, echoed these comments, stating, “The formalization of our long-term relationship with the Innovation Pop Up at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust adds a new dimension to 4D Path. Not only does this unique opportunity enable us to leverage Leeds’s world-class clinical teams and expertise for the development of new technologies in the heart of the NHS, but it offers rapid deployment across the service to empower a more accurate, efficient approach to cancer diagnosis and treatment choices.”
The partnership will look to update and present its findings at upcoming international oncology conferences and to identify future applications for this important diagnostic advancement.
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About 4D Path
Just because you can’t see something, doesn’t mean it’s not there. 4D Path’s mission is to transform precision diagnostics by using statistical physics and cell cycle dynamics to unveil previously hidden information in cellular snapshots of tissue. The company’s cloud-based 4D Q-Plasia OncoReaderTM (QPOR) is a U.S. patented pan-cancer platform, which has also been awarded FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its Breast Cancer-specific QPOR. This digital image-to-report solution provides a tool which aims to improve diagnostic accuracy of existing biomarkers, identify new biological signatures to guide therapeutic management, accelerate diagnostic turnaround times, and reduce costs in a single step. 4D Path collaborates with a broad array of clinical and life science partners to advance the field of precision medicine through groundbreaking cancer diagnostic technology.
Visit www.4dpath.com or contact Lisa Williams, lwilliams@4DPath, to learn more.
About Leeds Teaching HospitalsNHS Trust, Innovation Pop Up and Building The Leeds Way
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Innovation Pop Up brings together entrepreneurs, researchers and clinicians to create, evaluate and adopt new products and services to transform health and social care and drive economic growth. Launched in October 2021 the Innovation Pop Up is at the heart of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’s future ‘Building the Leeds Way’ programme to create a new Innovation Village, a new home for Leeds Children’s Hospital, a new hospital for adults and the UK’s largest single-site maternity centre and neonatal unit as part of the whole site transformation of the Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) site. The future programme of capital investment and improvements as part of the UK Government’s new hospitals programme is expected to bring direct and wider economic benefits of almost £13billion in net present value to the city, along with around 4,000 jobs and 520 new homes. As a first stage in that development, in September 2023, the programme saw the official launch of the now completed state of the art ‘Centre for Laboratory Medicine’ at St James University Hospital.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trustis one of the largest and busiest acute hospital trusts in Europe. Every year Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provides healthcare and specialist services for people from the city of Leeds, Yorkshire, and the Humber and beyond. We play an important role in the training and education of medical, nursing, and dental students, and are a centre of world-class research and pioneering new treatments. With a budget of over £1.6 billion and employing over 20,000 people, last year (2021/2022) there were over 1.7 million patient attendances across the Trust’s Hospitals. Care and clinical expertise is delivered from seven hospitals on five sites, and they are all joined by a vision to be the best for specialist and integrated care. Treatments and episodes of care includes 86,000 day cases, 23,000 inpatients, 175,000 attendances to our Emergency Departments and 935,000 outpatient appointments.
4D Path PR Contact:
Jill Anderson / Laura Nelson
SVM PR & Marketing Communications Jill.anderson@svmpr.com/ Laura.nelson@svmpr.com
(401) 490-9700
Leeds Teaching Hospitals PR Contact:
Darryl Butcher
Communications Manager
darryl.butcher@nhs.net or communications.lth@nhs.net
Mobile: 07385 932092