Dexela Receives Connect Award from LDA

Dexela has received a JumpStart Connect Award from the London Development Agency.

JumpStart is a 2-year and 5.4 million Euro programme led by the London Development Agency’s (LDA)London Innovation Unit. The programme has made a Connect Award to Dexela. This covers up to 50% of project costs with a maximum of £10 000 for London-based Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to connect with Higher education Institutes (HEIs) or Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs). Funding is provided for innovation partnerships between SMEs and knowledge centres. Connect aims to address the imbalance caused by the failure of London’s businesses to engage and exploit the knowledge and resources which is readily available in colleges, universities and centres of creativity and research.

The aim of the JumpStart Connect programme is to encourage SMEs to improve the productivity and efficiency of their businesses through the introduction of an Innovative product and/or service. The projects are targeted at organizations that have a specific innovative project idea that addresses significant barriers to their business. Connect projects must focus on the organisations’ innovative idea and have the potential to deliver a new or improved product, process or service and should demonstrate significant importance to the future commercial success of the business.


The award was made for a research project into a 3D Digital Mammography Workstation, for which Dexela is collaborating with the Centre for Medical Image Computing (MedIC) at University College London. The Centre brings together a substantial group of physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians and engineers working on medical image analysis and image processing. Their work encompasses the full range of activity in image formation, image analysis and image guided interventions. The group is one of the strongest internationally in this exciting subject area.