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I'd like to see more examples. It seems clear that there's lots of low hanging fruit with respect to engineering solutions for medical devices, surgical tools,
by etrautmann 11y ago
I'd like to see more examples. It seems clear that there's lots of low hanging fruit with respect to engineering solutions for medical devices, surgical tools, procedures, etc. This was one cool application, but there must be other student teams from this program?
- graeham 11y agohttp://arbutusmedical.ca/ http://arbutusmedical.ca/ is another example. Its only been going 3-4 years with ~10 students per year, so some of the ideas are still developing. And more so, I think we'll see alumni of the program do great things in the coming years. I'd argue that hardware is more challenging for younger founders, and medical device more so - the regulatory, funding, and access to users is hard. What makes this program so good is it makes user access easy, and coaches students through 'translating' between engineering language and surgeon. I was at UBC in the Biomedical Program the year before EiS started. Its a very strong program in medical device design, especially by including not just the engineering science, but life sciences, regulatory environment, and commercialization considerations.
- etrautmann 11y agoVery cool example. Clear and compelling use case, well-engineered simple solution, obvious market and benefit to the world.
- JKirl 11y agoI took part in the pilot program. We worked with the Sterile Processing Department and OR teams to develop small modifications to the medical device reprocessing process to reduce OR contamination events in a major trauma centre. The program is only in its 4th year at the moment but traction and support is growing exponentially.