Award winning researcher gets SET for Westminster

PA 38/10 A University of Nottingham researcher is heading to Westminster to promote his award winning work on a device that can monitor the heart rate of premature babies. Dr Mark Grubb, an expert in Biomedical Engineering, developed the Heartlight Monitor which can reliably detect, monitor and record heart activity on almost any area of a baby's skin. Recognised for entrepreneurial research by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the University's Institute for Enterprise and Innovation, Dr Grubb's research has now been selected to go on display in an exhibition of academic posters at the House of Commons on March 8 2010. 'SET for Britain' is a series of poster competitions and exhibitions, to provide a forum aimed at encouraging and promoting Britain's early-career researchers and to foster engagement between them and members of both Houses of Parliament at Westminster. The event is organised by the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics, and the Institute of Biology. Sixty posters will be on display during the Engineering poster session. Selected from hundreds of entries they represent the best engineering research from UK Universities.