Thank you for supporting BioDesign 2022

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We appreciate the extensive help of our guest speakers, community leaders, partners organisations and colleagues.

In 2022, we ran BioDesign in-person and hybrid.

The teaching team (David Grayden, Kwanghui Lim and Simon Wilkins) would like to express our gratitude to everyone who contributed to making BioDesign2022 a success, including:

Guest Speakers

  • Andre Tan, Commercialisation Facilitator for the Accelerating Commercialisation program
  • Andrew Rowse, Melbourne Entrepreneurial Program and Bonnie Zhang, Translating Research at Melbourne.
  • Chris Farley, COO, Planet Innovation.
  • David Harrison, Principal Consultant, DWH Consulting.
  • Dean Freestone, Co-founder and CEO, Seer Medical.
  • Eric Höfgen, PhD. Knowledge transfer manager, Unimelb
  • Esther Apos, Director at CMS Scidoc.
  • Gil Rind, Senior Director of Advanced Technologies, Synchron.
  • Guido Tresoldi, Liaison Librarian, University of Melbourne.
  • Jonathan Inglis, (MBA, MBS) who co-authored the NAVi Case Study with Kwang.
  • Jordan Green, President and Founder, Melbourne Angels.
  • A/Prof Jia-Yee Lee, Associate Professor, Enterprise Fellow (Medtech), Melbourne School of Engineering at University of Melbourne.
  • Emeritus Professor Leon Mann, University of Melbourne, who taught our students how to create high-performing teams.
  • Maria Pelipas and Makenzie Thomas from The Actuator.
  • Ray Dagastine (Tiny Bright Things) on on how they plan market entry.
  • Dr. Tam Nguyen, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of Research, St Vincent’s Hospital.
  • Dr. Vinayak Smith, clinician and scientist based at Monash University.
  • Will DuPreez, Baxter IP. on intellectual property strategy.

Panelists

  • Prof Andrea O’Connor, Department of Biomedical Engineering.
  • Prof Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas (Thas), Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne.
  • A/Prof Brooke Farrugia, Department of Biomedical Engineering.
  • Assoc Prof David Ackland, Dept of Biomedical Engineering.
  • Prof David Nisbet, Faculty of Engineering and IT and the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Director of the Graeme Clark Institute.
  • Professor Glenn Hoetker, MBS.
  • Emeritus Professor Leon Mann, University of Melbourne.
  • Dr Lionel Lam, Department of Biomedical Engineering.
  • A/Prof Jia-Yee Lee, Enterprise Fellow (Medtech), Melbourne School of Engineering at University of Melbourne.
  • Pam Rebecca, MBS Alumnae and representative of the MBS Semba Class of 2003.
  • Dr. Sam John, Department of Biomedical Engineering.
  • Professor Sandra Kentish, Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne.

Alumni

  • Alex Newton, Mubin Yousef, Shing Yue Sheung and the founders of NAVi Medical Technologies for helping us throughout the term.
  • Amy Yu (CTO) and Edward Bujis (CEO), Ventora Medical.
  • Ajit Ravindran, CEO of Lenexa Medical and Will Yang, Chief Scientific Officer.
  • Dylan Andrews on Concept development and testing.
  • Elise Sutherland, CEO of Stelect for being a “live case” in class.
  • Lorace Zhang, CEO of Vysum.
  • Ned Tyndall, CSIRO
  • All the alumni who came and supported us throughout.

Donors

  • Stephen Ho for very generously contributing time and funding towards the student teams, along with his daughter Tracy Ho for offering feedback to the teams.
  • Ian Kirk whose sustained contributions to MBS makes this course viable.
  • The MBS SEMBA class of 2003 for project funding and a commercialisation prize.

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