Ella Moonan-Howard and Pepsi Reilly - 4 reasons academics make good Innovators

Ella Moonan-Howard and Pepsi Reilly - 4 reasons academics make good Innovators

Ella Moonan-Howard, narrating her and Pepsi Reilly's blog written for the Dementia Researcher website. In this blog, Ella and Pepsi, explore why academics make great innovators. Drawing from her own journey from academia to dementia innovation, they highlight how research skills like project management, adaptability, and a scientific approach to problem-solving can drive impactful product development. The blog discusses the benefits of applying these skills in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and introduces the Alzheimer’s Society’s Launchpad programme, which helps academics turn ideas into real-world solutions for people living with dementia. Find the original text, and narration here on our website.

https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/blog-a-career-with-impact-4-reasons-academics-make-good-innovators/

#HealthInnovation #VentureScience #Innovation

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Dr Ella Moonan-Howard is a Senior Innovator at the Alzheimer's Society. Ella previous worked at Zinc, supporting early stage start-ups and their founders to build research skills and to test their products as they built them. Obsessed with seeing the direct impact these start-ups could make, she moved to Alzheimer's Society to ensure the next generation of dementia products go on to achieve scale and change the lives of those living with dementia. Find Ella on LinkedIn

Pepsi Reilly has worked at the Alzheimer's Society since 2022 holding a number of positions within the Innovation Team, and having previously worked a number of charities and as a Research Assistant at University College London. Her work at UCL was focussed on dementia and care, and included work on the Continuing Compassion in Care (CCiC) Project: Exploring how informal carers of people living with dementia experience and maintain continuing compassion in care. Find Pepsi on LinkedIn

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