Established in 2015 as an affiliation of the NIHR Colorectal Therapies Healthcare Technology Cooperative, the MedTech Foundation is now a key part of the Surgical MedTech Co-operative, as part of the support we provide to early career innovators.We believe instilling these skills and interdisciplinary ethos in the next generation of clinicians, scientists, researchers and industry representatives is vital if we are to improve the translation of technologies for patient benefit. We aim to expand the benefits of the MedTech Foundation to other institutes and MICs nationally and already have begun expanding to Cambridge, Birmingham, Warwick and Kings College London. If you want to get involved with this, whether your institute is listed above or not, please do contact us.