Scalp cooling cap design wins international Exhibitor Innovations Competition

The cooling cap has been developed, manufactured and globally marketed by Huddersfield firm Paxman, which has formed close ties—including highly-successful UK Government-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs)—with experts at the University, where scientists have established the scientific basis for scalp cooling in preventing hair loss during chemotherapy. And in the School of Art, Design and Architecture, lecturers Dr Ertu Unver and Dr David Swann have worked on major improvements to the design of the cap.The latter worked closely with the firm Primasil Silicones in the creation of a silicone rubber formulation that gave the cooling cap greater flexibility and enabled the coolant running through the cap to be in close contact with the scalp. Now, at the 2015 Medtech World Awards, the scalp cooling cap design was declared the winner of the Exhibitor Innovations Competition.