Southampton Emerging Therapies and Technologies (SETT) Centre
The SETT Centre catalyses research and innovation focused on NHS needs in emerging areas with vanguard potential for clinical service development and substantial growth opportunity.
Leadership
Professor Christopher Kipps, SETT Centre Director
"The SETT Centre was established in 2021 to bring together and focus on three exciting areas within which we can translate cutting edge research and innovation into clinical care and patient outcomes.”
Advanced Therapies
Building on our reputation for transferring novel therapies into routine patient care we have focussed on growing our portfolio of life science clinical trials, delivering high impact translational gene therapy and translating engineering techniques into cell therapy delivery.
Since the start of 2022, 30 patients have received treatment through Advanced Therapy studies, which has translated into some patients being cured of lifelong diseases such as haemophilia B. Looking to the future we are receiving ongoing expressions of interest to run ATIMP research in an expanding range of clinical specialities including Clinical Haematology and Oncology, Ophthalmology, Respiratory, Rheumatology and Neurology.
MedTech and Innovation
Working across Wessex health, academia and industry partners SETT has built on existing relationships and developed new partnerships to expedite the development of MedTech innovations for patient benefit. Directly within UHS research, SETT has accelerated the testing of MedTech innovations by developing and streamlining research pathways.
Data and AI
SETT has realised the value of clinical data by establishing Secure Data Environments to safely link clinical data at scale, for high quality research. Through the development of automated pipelines, the Data team are able to rapidly identify patient cohorts and maximise the recruitment of eligible patients to clinical trials. SETT Data is maximising exciting opportunities in data analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence to generate long term step changes in patient care.
Establishing the SETT Centre has been an opportunity to bring together and focus on three exciting areas within which we can translate cutting edge research and innovation into clinical care and patient outcomes.