HKU Biomed Entrepreneurship Talk Series

Our school has launched the ‘HKU Biomed Entrepreneurship Talk Series’ which aims to stimulate academic’s interest in translating their basic innovations to applications through inviting academics/entrepreneurs to share their experience with startups.

Date: 26 January 2022 (Wednesday)

Time: 4:00 – 5:30pm

Conducted via Zoom: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97231929807?pwd=czhtc2theTdicVVHT2JTckU3SVl6Zz09

Meeting ID: 972 3192 9807

Password: 653413

 

Title: Building a resilient medical device startup during a pandemic: Leading the way to hybrid physical/simulated device development

Speaker: Dr Sloan Kulper, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Lifespans Limited

Biography: 

Sloan is a biomedical engineer from MIT with deep ties to the Silicon Valley startup community. A serial entrepreneur and inventor with multiple international patents, he has built successful startups in four countries and raised millions of US dollars in grants and seed funding across multiple ventures. He has also served as an engineering consultant to several multinational medical device firms, including Fortune 500 firms Stryker and CR Bard. Sloan received a B.Sc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a  Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine (Dept. of Orthopaedics & Traumatology).

Abstract: 

The medical device industry is an exciting area for startups looking to challenge the status quo of healthcare with new technologies that benefit patients' health and quality of life. As a highly regulated industry with an emphasis on safety, a great deal of prototyping and testing is required before new devices reach the healthcare market. The global pandemic has led to slowdowns at medical device prototyping facilities and testing laboratories worldwide, restricting the pace of new device development and threatening the lifeblood of startups and other innovation-led companies. Lifespans, a startup by members of the HKU Faculty of Medicine, shares its story of building a successful post-pandemic business model by creating a new simulation technology platform, Alfonso (www.lifespans.net/alfonso) for rapid virtual testing of its own orthopaedic implants, and by offering this platform as a cloud-based testing service to the global medical device industry.

 

ALL ARE WELCOME

Should you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact Ms Veronica Kwok at 3917-9515.