Thank you for supporting BioDesign 2023

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

In 2023, BioDesign had 6 teams.

The teaching team (David Grayden, Kwanghui Lim and Simon Wilkins) would like to express our gratitude to everyone who contributed to making BioDesign2023 a success, including:

Guest Speakers

  • Andre Tan, Commercialisation Facilitator for the Accelerating Commercialisation program
  • Bob Soh, Brandon Capital.
  • Esther Apos, Director at CMS Scidoc.
  • Gary Haywood, D&I (Design & Industry).
  • Guido Tresoldi, Liaison Librarian, University of Melbourne.
  • Jaxon Hickey (Melbourne Accelerator), Katrina Gaskin (MAP Velocity Program) and Rory McNeice (Melbourne Entrepreneurial Centre).
  • Jordan Green, President and Founder, Melbourne Angels.
  • Prof Jia-Yee Lee, Enterprise Professor, University of Melbourne.
  • Maria Pelipas, Research Acceleration Manager, TRAM Air program.
  • Makenzie Thomas from The Actuator.
  • Dr. Tam Nguyen, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of Research, St Vincent’s Hospital.
  • Dr. Vinayak Smith, clinician and scientist based at Monash University.
  • Tracey Hendy and Robbie Boukarroum from FPA on Intellectual Property
  • Xiaoyin Shang, Head of Strategy and Innovation, National Acoustics Laboratory.

Panelists

  • Prof Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas (Thas), Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne.
  • Prof Andrea O’Connor, Dept of Biomedical Engineering.
  • Assoc Prof David Ackland, Dept of Biomedical Engineering.
  • Professor Glenn Hoetker, MBS.
  • Assoc Prof Hamish Meffin, Dept of Biomedical Engineering.
  • Prof Jia-Yee Lee, Enterprise Professor, University of Melbourne
  • Maria Pelipas, Research Acceleration Manager, TRAM Air program.
  • Asst Prof Najoung Lim, MBS.
  • Pam Rebecca, MBS Alumnae and representative of the MBS Semba Class of 2003.

Alumni

  • Alex Newton, Mubin Yousef, Shing Yue Sheung and the founders of NAVi Medical Technologies for helping us throughout the term.
  • The founders of AcuDent for coming back in full force to support this cohort: Aaron Binns, Anna Dai, Ashwin Ho, Liam Murray and Ivy Weng.
  • Amin Abbas for helping with the opening session and pitching techniques.
  • Amy Yu (CTO) and Edward Bujis (CEO), Ventora Medical.
  • Ajit Ravindran, CEO of Lenexa Medical and Will Yang, Chief Scientific Officer.
  • Jess Anderson and Bec McCormick from Anura on medical Needs.
  • Lorace Zhang, CEO of Vysum.
  • Shanna Lam, for offering feedback to each team.
  • Tiffany Chang, Deloitte.
  • 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.
  • Ian Kirk whose contributions to MBS makes this course viable.
  • The MBS SEMBA class of 2003 for project funding and a commercialisation prize.

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