News

20 May 2025

MedTech Innovation Fund Summit

The KEPsoft Collaboarative team were delighted to attend the University of Glasgow’s MedTech Innovation Fund Summit on 20 May at the Advanced Research Centre. They joined other teams whose projects are supported by the University’s MedTech Innovation Fund to share news on commercialisation progress and engage in networking activities. KEPsoft Collaborative are grateful for the support for our commercialisation journey that has been received from the MedTech Innovation Fund. A total of £500k has been used to support projects, using funds the UK Government Shared Prosperity Funding (administered by Glasgow City Council); the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Funds; Medical Research Council (MRC) Impact Accelerator Account funds; and a generous private donation from a University of Glasgow alumni. A brochure that accompanied the event is available, and a photo from the event follows.

12 March 2025

KEPsoft Collaborative officially spins out

KEPsoft Collaborative are delighted to announce that we have completed the spin-out process and are fully incorporated as a Community Interest Company. We are the first not-for-profit social enterprise to spin out from the University of Glasgow, and are looking forward to improving access to living-donor kidney transplants through increased use of our KEPsoft platform for Kidney Exchange Programmes.

1 November 2024

The EU4Health funded EURO-KEP project started

This project will lay the foundations for a pan-European kidney exchange programme. It runs for 36 months and will leverage KEPsoft to provide the required software infrastructure. Led by the Organización Nacional de Trasplantes, it has a ambitious and multidisciplinary programme of work involving 17 participating countries, requiring input from directors of transplantation organisations, nephrologists, surgeons, immunologists, legal and ethical experts, computer scientists, mathematicians, and economists.

4 October 2024

Converge Challenge Awards

The KEPsoft Collaborative CIC team were thrilled to be at the Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa Edinburgh last night for the Converge Final, in the presence of Scotland’s Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes.

The team were delighted to be Runners Up in ‘Create Change’ category and congratulate Jawahir Al-Mauly, Founder of Ujaama Spice on her well deserved win! Congratulations to all the Converge winners and runners up!

Massive thanks to the whole Converge Team including Lissa Rocha Herron, Maisie Keogh, Richard Cormack Corrigan, Kathryn Slater, Sheik Abdul Malik and Georgia Goodall for running a great programme and for their support.

The KEPsoft Team are also grateful for the outstanding support provided by the University of Glasgow, Innovation & Economic Development
team including Natasha Tian, Melville Anderson, Sheena MacCormick, Ian Marland and Uzma Khan.

26 September 2024

Converge Create Change Challenge

We are delighted to announce that the KEPsoft Collaborative team have reached the final of the Converge Create Change Challenge! An announcement appears here.

19 August 2024

Company incorporated

KEPsoft Collaborative CIC has incorporated at Companies House with company number SC819857 and registered address 11 The Square, University Avenue, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G12 8QQ. Directors are Melville Anderson, Vijay Luthra, David Manlove and William Pettersson.

1 July 2023

The EPSRC-funded KidneyAlgo project started

This project aims to design new algorithms for UK and international kidney exchange. This is a collaborative project involving the University of Glasgow and Durham University and runs for 24 months.