26 September 2025
26 September 2025
On 26 September 2025 the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency established the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare. The Commission is an expert, non-statutory advisory body. Its remit covers software and AI-enabled medical devices, and wider questions of accountability, transparency, clinical practice, organisational governance and system-wide assurance.
Neil Lawrence is a commissioner and chairs the Technology Working Group, which identifies and evaluates frontier AI technologies and how they interact with regulation. The group’s project page records the Cambridge role.
17 April 2020
The Royal Society launches DELVE — Data Evaluation and Learning for Viral Epidemics — to feed data-driven analysis into SAGE. Neil Lawrence helps lead the group; Jessica Montgomery provides secretariat.
4 May 2020
The first DELVE report argues that face coverings, including homemade cloth masks, could reduce community transmission when physical distancing is hard to maintain.
27 May 2020
A DELVE report sets out when TTI can help control COVID-19; Andrei Paleyes and colleagues release open simulation software used in the supporting analysis.
