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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES PROMOTING RESEARCH, TRAINING, AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN MOBILITY
Michael Boninger, Rachel Cowan, B.J. Fregly
Outline
Needs What we saw / What worked
Research Training Technology Transfer
Gap Analysis - What was missing
Over 40 million Americans live with a disability
Disability in the form of limited activities and restricted participation in social life is not an unavoidable result of injury and chronic disease. It results, in part, from choices society makes about working conditions, health care, transportation, housing, and other aspects of our environment. IOM Report - 2007
Need
Need
To ameliorate disability we must Conduct high quality research Transfer the research to clinical practice
Barriers Lack of well trained researchers Technology transfer Changing clinical practice Small populations with low income
Laboratories
LBM Education: Msc, PhD Areas: Musculoskeletal, Modeling and clinical
evaluation, Biomechanics: Sport, health and safety, Biomechanics and nervous system: motion analysis and restoration
International masters degree program in Biomedical Engineering Collaboration between ParisTech and Paris
Descartes Medical University Admits half of students with engineering
background and half with clinical background
Education
Medicine 2010 KVT - Clinical Science and Technology (2008) Sports candidate (2008) Sports bachellor (2007) Medicine with indus. specialis. (2006) BSc+MSc. in BME (2000) Master in health informatics (1995) Ph.d. i Biomedical Science and Engineering
(1993) Medicoteknik: BME MSc (1978)
Problem Based Learning (PBL)Tell me and I will forget,Show me and I will remember,Involve me and I will understand,
Old proverb
Step back and I will act.
EDUCATIONSPBL Education at HST
Education Summary
Structure to support the highest quality education Multidisciplinary
Clinicians & Engineers Proximity Experiential
Problem based learning Critical Mass
MIRA
MIRA cuts across all departments, gathering expertise from many organizations and assisting them in bringing technology to market
MIRA currently has 250 researchers and will likely add 150 more in the next few years.
8 spin off companies to date and plan to have 3-5/year moving forward.
Researchers may obtain stake in these companies, that are primarily funded by outside investors
MIRA’s role is helping bring research to a marketable point and connecting investors with researchers.
Demcon – advanced mechatronics University of Twente spin off company
(1993) Incubator company
Brings products to market – up to first run series
Typically, a small or medium sized company has a problem and contracts with Demcon to provide a product solution.
RoboNED
Internal Dutch industry/academic/consumer innovation partnership supported by the Dutch government
Develop a strategic robotic research agenda for the Netherlands.
identify existing robotic research themes and research themes to pursue
ultimate goal of commercially viable products.
Cowan
LEO – Center for Service Robotics - notes
The Leo Center for Service Robotics is a newly formed collaborative offshoot of RoboNED. The LEO Center is located at University of Twente and includes a physical collaborative space. LEO has identified three service robotic themes: Medical (surgical, rehabilitation, prosthetics, etc…); http://www.leo-robotics.eu/index.html
Cowan
HOCOMA - ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MOVEMENT THERAPYPeter Hostettler, PhD & CEO, and team, Zurich
Structural
Commission for Technology and Innovation Joint projects between Swiss universities and
companies, funded by Swiss government, to support the commercialization of new technologies.
Hocoma projects funded and realized through CTI: Lokomat Assessment Tools for Lokomat Backtrainer: Augmented Feedback based
Therapy for Low Back Pain Hocoma has multiple relationships with
Universities and rehabilitation centers
Reciprocal Patent Relationship Telecom SudParis and Virginia Tech have a
reciprocal relationship whereby: Virginia Tech showcases Telecom SudParis patents
in the United States. Telecom SudParis showcases Virginia Tech patents
in France. Goal is to increase patent exposure to other
countries so as to maximize the likelihood of product development for improved healthcare.
Current focus is on development of wearable systems to improve patient monitoring and safety in the field.
Technology Transfer - Summary Structure to support technology transfer
Industry, research partnerships Government support Regulatory and business expertise Proximity
Gap Conflict of interest/solid research
European co-operation
Rehab. Centres: RRD
Rehab. Robotics: UoR
EMG: AAU & U. Maribor
EEG: TUGraz & EKUT
FES: U. Belgrade
Robotics: TUDelft
Motion analysis: URT
Industries:• Prosthetics: Ossur• Textiles: Smartex• FES: UNA Sistemi• EEG: gTec• EMG: OT Bioelec
Hospitals:• H. Erasme• FSL
INSTITUT FOR SUNDHEDSVIDENSKAB OG TEKNOLOGIAALBORG UNIVERSITYAALBORG, DENMARK
DEPT. OF HEALTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
NetworkingMediconetHandiatekVCHIBioMedComCHATCenter for STV-CenTAHDMTSDSMIIDA-Sund
EntrepeneurshipIncubator at HSTInnovation office at HST
Spinn Out’s from HSTJudex DatasystemerNeurodan – Otto Boch Ditens A/SNemomedMermaid Care”AalQTeq /GE-Healthcare”TKSCardiosound
CollaborationsNovo NordiskRTXColoplastLundbeckPfitzerRadiometerWM-DataSystematic…..
Innovation
Your name here
Research Dissemination – External Relations
MIMICS
Multimodal Immersive Motion rehabilitation with interactive Cognitive Systems Funded by European Union – Seventh Framework Program Lokomat multimodal project observed at ETH
http://www.mimics.ethz.ch/index.php?page_id=0
MIMICS
Key structural/organizational property Technical, Clinical, and Industry partners involved Expected to end in a commercial product Pathway from technical development through
clinical evaluation and commercialization is well defined
40% non-competitive internal, a part of his faculty package Allows pilot development which translates into external funding
Goal is REAL products, so a balance must occur b/t discovery based learning & having to become competent in the multiple fields
Cooperation – summary
Cooperation Needed for Effective clinical trials Specialized expertise
Feeds Education Research Technology Transfer
Forced by EU funding mechanisms
Rizzoli Institute Overview
Surgeon, physiatrist, and biomedical engineer all working in same lab and sharing one office space.
Research activities span from before surgery to rehabilitation activities following surgery.
Focus on movement analysis of the lower limb and more recently on the trunk for low back pain.
Surgeon does a combination of research and clinical duties (50-50).
Hospital sees over 150,000 patients per year.
TRIL Centre
Looks at the physical, social and cognitive consequences of ageing and develops technologies to address them.
Collaboration between researchers in academic, clinical and industry settings (ethnographers, clinicians, and designers).
Novel bio-psycho-social cohort data-set & technology platforms.
Ethnographers spend extended time understanding end users day-to-day lives. Helps to identify opportunities to put technologies.
Learn from our users – committed to a user-centered approach to technology development.
Research Summary
Infrastructure to support the highest quality research Multidisciplinary
Clinicians & Engineers Proximity We need to think of additional disciplines.
Gap Multiple groups repeating work
End user inputEnd user as investigatorEnd user as studentMany labs were not truly accessible
What was missing