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Applications of Emerging & Disruptive Technologies in Medical Devices and Healthcare
14-15 May 2007, The Sheffield Bioincubator
Course Description
This 2 day course will demonstrate how micro and nanotechnologies are already impacting the healthcare sector by enabling new products, procedures and therapies that match previously unmet clinical needs or can deliver more cost effective solutions. The intrinsic benefits of the technology (miniaturisation, high reliability, improved performance, new functional capabilities) have to be balanced against the barriers to the introduction of any new medical product. This course builds on the significant personal experience of the lecturers who have transferred technology from research to the marketplace. It also utilises a wealth of case studies (both successes and failures) from many medical product companies worldwide. Potential pitfalls in product development will be identified and ways of overcome them revealed.
The course also provides analysis of future trends in a valuable series of roadmaps for each of the major application areas.
Who should attend?
The course will appeal to R & D staff, marketing and business development managers, product development engineers and senior management responsible for strategic planning. Those developing technology will benefit from seeing how their results are being applied in the market place. They will gain an appreciation of the challenges faced in the scale up of manufacturing, meeting regulatory concerns and successfully marketing new concepts. Those responsible for product portfolios will gain an appreciation of the emerging technologies and how they can be used to deliver competitive advantage.
Course Topics
An introduction to micro and nanotechnology as applied to medical devices
Practical issues in introducing new technology into healthcare
An overview of the product development and regulatory approval process
Business models used by nanotechnology companies – the value chain
Choosing a technology – a guide to the fabrication of microstructures in glass, plastic, silicon, metal and ceramics and how to find the suppliers
Minimally invasive surgery, catheters and endoscopes
Diagnosis and monitoring
Drug development and delivery
Prosthetics and implants
Wound care
Course Fees
- Industrial Delegate Rate £550
- Academic Delegate Rate £340 *
**Senior academics who register at the full industrial rate will be able to bring one of their research staff to the course free of charge.
To register or for further information, please contact Lisa Pennington, SYBEN on l.pennington@syben.org.uk or 0114 272 9219
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