Transcript NSF European Study on Mobility Technology

ORGANIZATIONAL
STRUCTURES PROMOTING
RESEARCH, TRAINING, AND
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN
MOBILITY
Michael Boninger, Rachel Cowan, B.J. Fregly
Outline
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Needs
What we saw / What worked
 Research
 Training
 Technology
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Transfer
Gap Analysis - What was missing
Education
Research
Technology
Transfer
Need
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
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To ameliorate disability we must
 Conduct
high quality research
 Transfer the research to clinical practice
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Barriers
 Lack
of well trained researchers
 Technology transfer
 Changing clinical practice
 Small populations with low income
Education
NOVEL EDUCATIONAL
APPROACH
Etienne Burdet, Imperial College
New course at Imperial College
ARTS ET METIERS PARISTECH
BIOMECHANICS
LABORATORY
Director : Wafa SKALLI
Education
 LBM
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Laboratories
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
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PBL Education at HST
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Medicine 2010
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KVT - Clinical Science and Technology (2008)
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Sports candidate (2008)
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Sports bachellor (2007)
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Medicine with indus. specialis. (2006)
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BSc+MSc. in BME (2000)
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Master in health informatics (1995)
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Ph.d. i Biomedical Science and Engineering (1993)
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Medicoteknik: BME MSc (1978)
EDUCATIONS
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.
Education Summary
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Structure to support the highest quality education
 Multidisciplinary
 Clinicians
& Engineers
 Proximity
 Experiential
 Problem
 Critical
based learning
Mass
Technology Transfer
UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE
Enschede, The Netherlands
MIRA
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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 35/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
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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
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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
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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…);
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Cowan
http://www.leo-robotics.eu/index.html
Structural
HOCOMA - ADVANCED
FUNCTIONAL MOVEMENT
THERAPY
Peter Hostettler, PhD & CEO, and team, Zurich
Commission for Technology and
Innovation
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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:
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Lokomat
Assessment Tools for Lokomat
Backtrainer: Augmented Feedback based Therapy for
Low Back Pain
Hocoma has multiple relationships with Universities
and rehabilitation centers
Structural
HANDICOM – NEW
TECHNOLOGIES FOR
INDEPENDENCE
Prof. Mounir Mokhtari, Paris
Reciprocal Patent Relationship
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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.
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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
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Structure to support technology transfer
 Industry,
research partnerships
 Government support
 Regulatory and business expertise
 Proximity
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Gap
 Conflict
of interest/solid research
Cooperation
RESTORATION OF HUMAN
MOTOR FUNCTION
J.L. Pons
from Neurorobots to Motor Neuroprostheses
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
TEKNOLOGI
AALBORG UNIVERSITY
AALBORG, DENMARK
DEPT. OF HEALTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Innovation
Research Dissemination – External Relations
Networking
Mediconet
Handiatek
VCHI
BioMedCom
CHAT
Center for ST
V-CenTAH
DMTS
DSMI
IDA-Sund
Entrepeneurship
Incubator at HST
Innovation office at HST
Spinn Out’s from HST
Judex Datasystemer
Neurodan – Otto Boch
Ditens A/S
Nemomed
Mermaid Care
”AalQTeq /GE-Healthcare”
TKS
Cardiosound
Collaborations
Novo Nordisk
RTX
Coloplast
Lundbeck
Pfitzer
Radiometer
WM-Data
Systematic
…..
Your name here
SENSORY-MOTOR SYSTEMS LAB,
ETH, ZURICH
Prof., Dr. Robert Reiner
MIMICS
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Multimodal Immersive Motion rehabilitation with interactive Cognitive Systems
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Funded by European Union – Seventh Framework Program
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Lokomat multimodal project observed at ETH
http://www.mimics.ethz.ch/index.php?page_id=0
MIMICS
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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
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40% non-competitive internal, a part of his faculty
package
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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
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Cooperation Needed for
 Effective
clinical trials
 Specialized expertise
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Feeds
 Education
 Research
 Technology
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Transfer
Forced by EU funding mechanisms
Cooperation - Gap
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Balance of Cooperation and Competition
Forced versus real
Research
ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY
AND REHABILITATION
Maria Benedetti, M.D. and Alberto Leardini, Ph.D.,
Bologna
Rizzoli Institute Overview
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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.
Brian Caulfield, Academic Director
TRIL Centre
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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
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Infrastructure to support the highest quality research
 Multidisciplinary
 Clinicians
& Engineers
 Proximity
 We
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need to think of additional disciplines.
Gap
 Multiple
groups repeating work
What was missing
End user input
End user as investigator
End user as student
Many labs were not truly accessible
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