Latest from MedTech Actuator
MedTech Actuator Origin Semi-Finalists Announced
Twenty impressive teams recently battled it out at the MedTech Actuator Origin Rapid Fire Rounds, pitching their ideas to improve and save lives through health innovation. Ten teams took out top place and are now progressing to the Semi-Finals.
Meet Makenzie – Project Officer
MedTech Actuator Project Officer Makenzie Thomas brings her passion for entrepreneurship, startup ecosystems and supporting founders to delivering MedTech Actuator Origin, and the MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholarship and Fellowship programs.
Radetec Diagnostics develops fast COVID19 test
With assistance from the Additive Manufacturing Hub at AMTIL, MedTech Actuator startup Radetec Diagnostics has developed an innovative device to facilitate fast and inexpensive testing of various infectious diseases – including COVID19.
Founders powering the next wave of health innovation.
Congratulations to founders on recently completing MedTech Actuator – Asia Pacific’s MedTech catalyst.
EloCare: Helping people age gracefully with IoMT technology.
MedTech Actuator startup EloCare Pte Ltd is innovating in the internet of medical things (IoMT) and artificial intelligence (AI) to develop connected and smart healthcare devices that help people live longer and age gracefully.
Our village is raising MedTech’s next wave of innovators.
Thank you to health innovation experts from across Asia Pacific and the US who recently shared their industry insights and knowledge through MedTech Actuator sprints with the region’s best emerging health entrepreneurs.
Meet the next MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholars
The MedTech Actuator and Menzies Foundation are thrilled to announce the second cohort of MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholarships.
MedTech Actuator Menzies Fellowships now open
Are you a high-potential scientist or researcher working with MedTech, BioTech or HealthTech innovations? Are you interested in exploring entrepreneurship and commercialisation? Do you have a research project with market translation potential?
MedTech Actuator Origin is back – apply today!
Are you an aspiring entrepreneur with a MedTech, BioTech or HealthTech startup idea? Apply now for the 2021 MedTech Actuator Origin!
Meet Gobind – Project Officer
Last year the MedTech ActuatorTM opened a second office – in Singapore. As part of our expansion through Asia Pacific, Project Officer Gobind Singh is supporting the work of Singapore-based founders to improve and save lives with health innovation.
NanoMSlide manufacturing smart microscope slides in Melbourne.
A new facility at the Australian National Fabrication Facility has made it possible for MedTech Actuator startup NanoMSlide to manufacture their smart nanotechnology microscope slides onshore for instant, more accurate cancer diagnosis.
Safeguarding frontline & essential workers from COVID-19 & future pandemics.
Expression of interest recently opened to invest in Soterius. The MedTech Actuator startup is scaling its COVID-19 biosensor to help protect workers and the wider community from devastating health, social and economic impacts of future pandemics.
Asia Pacific’s best emerging health entrepreneurs join MedTech Actuator.
Entrepreneurs working to improve and save lives through health innovation have joined the MedTech Actuator – Asia Pacific’s MedTech catalyst.
MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholarships applications open
Are you a researcher in MedTech, BioTech or HealthTech looking to explore entrepreneurship and commercialisation? Do you have a research project with market translation potential? Apply now for 2021 MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholarships!
Meet Maria – Head of Programs
With a career that spans the US, Australia, Belgium, and Russia – managing international activities for over 200 startups – MedTech Actuator Head of Programs Maria Pelipas is supporting Asia Pacific’s next wave of health entrepreneurs to improve and save lives.
AI technology reducing discomfort for patients during childbirth.
A traumatic childbirth drives MedTech Actuator alumna, Cailin Ng – CEO and Co-Founder of Singapore-based HiCura Medical – to advance an AI-powered technology that can significantly reduce discomfort and risks for women around the world.
Ventora Medical Co-Founders honoured in 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30.
Congratulations to MedTech Actuator alumni Amy Yu and Edward Buijs, co-founders of Melbourne-based startup Ventora Medical, on being honoured in the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Healthcare & Science list.
Making it possible for seniors to live better longer.
MedTech Actuator alumnus Gabriel is developing technology that delivers more proactive and integrated care to the elderly at home, hospitals and aged care facilities by helping family, clinicians and carers to be in the right place, at the right time, with the right support.
Inaugural 2021 MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholarships announced.
Ten high-potential health, medical and biotechnology researchers have been selected to each receive a 2021 MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholarship – supporting them to develop a career that fuses science, research, and entrepreneurship.
RehabSwift advancing a customised brain-computer interface for stroke recovery.
MedTech Actuator startup RehabSwift Pty Ltd is developing a personalised brain-computer interface that revives hand movement after stroke, a leading cause of long-term disability worldwide.
Pronto Bottle raises $175K crowdfunding on Birchal in midst of COVID19.
Form-i-Baby has reached their crowdfunding target on Birchal in the midst of the COVID19 global pandemic, raising AUD$175K and welcoming 140 new investors to advance Pronto Bottle – a world-first self-sterilising baby bottle.
Next generation tissue building & regenerative medicine for neural repair.
Inaugural MedTech Actuator Menzies Fellow Associate Professor Jeremy Crook is developing a world-first neural repair medical technology to improve the lives of people living with neural tissue damage as a result of illness or trauma.
MedTech Actuator applications now open
Applications are now open for MedTech Actuator – Asia Pacific’s MedTech Catalyst.
Supporting people with low vision to live their life the way they choose
MedTech Actuator Menzies Fellow and CueSleeve co-founder Dr Chris McCarthy is working to make it easier for people living with low vision and neurocognitive disorders to do what they want and love to do.
Researchers join inaugural MedTech Actuator Menzies Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr Chris McCarthy and Associate Professor Jeremy Crook on their appointment as inaugural MedTech Actuator Menzies Fellows.
Ventora Medical closes investment round during COVID19.
MedTech Actuator startup Ventora Medical has successfully closed its angel investment round in the midst of the COVID19 global pandemic. The new investment will make it possible for Ventora Medical to advance their technology that helps premature babies to breathe.
MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholarships now open
Applications are now open for 2021 MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholarships – each valued at $10,000. Ten junior researchers will each receive tailored education, access to exclusive industry events and a $1,000 stipend to support them in exploring their commercialisation goals.
Navi Medical Technologies awarded NHMRC grant
Congratulations to MedTech Actuator alumnus Navi Medical Technologies, awarded an NHMRC Development Grant worth almost $900,000.
Baby bottle that self-sterilises on the go
Equity crowdfunding expression of interest is now open on Birchal for Form-i-Baby’s world-first self-sterilising baby bottle. Pronto Bottle will make bottle feeding safer for babies, save precious time for parents and keep millions of bottles out of landfill every year.
MedTech Actuator Menzies Fellowships now open
Applications are now open for 2021 MedTech Actuator Menzies Fellowships – each valued at $70,000. Two high-potential medical or scientific researchers will each receive tailored mentoring from commercialisation experts, a $20,000 stipend and access to the MedTech Actuator™.
Wearable bionic ear to offer accessible hearing transformation.
Australian startup Augmented Bionics has secured $650,000 in a round led by UK-based VC fund IP Group and included MedTech Actuator™ VC partner Artesian.
First-in-human trial of new MedTech to support critically ill newborns.
MedTech Actuator startup Navi Medical Technologies passed a major milestone recently when the clinical prototype of the Neonav ECG Tip Location System was used on patients for the first time.
Preventing heart attacks with MedTech innovation.
Australian startup Nirtek is developing a medical technology that will help prevent heart attacks, the leading cause of death worldwide.
Smart clothing for babies helps navigate stresses and anxieties of early parenthood.
Three years ago, Goldilocks founder Shem Richards was blessed with a daughter. At the hospital, his daughter was perfect and they had all the support that they needed. Then they brought her home and she started crying.
Neuromersiv secures $1 million to advance MedTech for stroke, spinal cord & brain injury survivors.
MedTech Actuator™ startup Neuromersiv has received a $1 million grant from the BioMedTech Horizons Fund to help bring their virtual reality solution for neurorehabilitation to life.
The next evolution of wearable tech for personalised health.
New wearable technology is under development to help prevent or delay the onset of diabetes – the world’s fastest growing chronic condition.
MedTech Actuator™ startup Data Dissect signs MOU with CQInsights Inc.
MedTech Actuator™ startup Data Dissect has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CQInsights Inc, the US-based global frontrunner in the development and implementation of learning health care systems.
Helping premature babies breathe.
The breathing support that clinicians give to babies born prematurely plays a critical role in their survival, length of stay in neonatal intensive care and long-term health. Melbourne-based startup, Ventora Medical is developing a device that will help clinicians to administer this vital breathing support with greater precision.
Alleviating pain from injections
As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, NeedleCalm Pty Ltd Director, Lauren Barber, saw first-hand the pain and anxiety experienced by patients undergoing needle-related procedures.
A new painless, blood-free way for diabetics to monitor blood glucose levels.
After witnessing her mother live with diabetes for 35 years, Dr Amutha Devi Kumar was inspired to bring together a team to create the world’s first totally non-invasive, data-driven and affordable blood glucometer.
Ensuring care continuity for people with mental health conditions.
Cogniant is a novel mobile app that uses digital phenotyping to make proactive mental health diagnoses and bring early intervention benefits to large patient populations.
New test for infection to improve patient quality of life and outcomes.
Driven to improve quality of life and outcomes for cancer patients, one startup has created a simple test that can quickly and sensitively detect infections – helping patients to access the care they need, when they need it.
