Med Tech Talks Podcast

Storytelling is an important part of successful innovation and entrepreneurship.   Corrie McLeod is a med tech innovation and communications expert who understands the power of effective storytelling from her experience as founder and publisher at InnovationAus.   InnovationAus is an independent publication that reports on the impact of government policy on Australia’s technology sectors, includin...

The “valley of death” is often seen as a barrier to innovation.  Dr Emma Ball, Head of Illumina for Startups (Australia, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa), challenges this idea on this week’s episode of Med Tech Talks.  Dr Ball helps create and grow start-ups in the field of genomics and is an angel investor. In this episode:  Hear the mission of Illumina and Illumina for Startups Learn what a...

Australia ranks 25th in the world for innovation as per the Global Innovation Index, but only ranks 32nd for translation of research.  In this episode of Med Tech Talks, Robert Klupacs speaks with experienced med tech entrepreneur and founder of Chatsworth Associates, Andrew Maxwell, about what Australia should do to improve the translation of our research.  Andrew has a remarkable record in the i...

Cochlear Ltd is an Australian med tech success story and a shining example of how we can build successful innovation in Australia.  Established to commercialise the cochlear implant developed by Bionics Institute founder and bionic ear pioneer, Professor Graeme Clark and his research team, Cochlear holds 60% of the global cochlear implant market. In this episode of Med Tech Talks, Robert Klupacs w...

Engineering prowess is a key attribute when it comes to developing and commercialising a med tech device, but what attributes make a successful engineer?     In this episode of Med Tech Talks, Dr Paul Minty shares the one key attribute that elevates the best engineers above the rest in the med tech industry.  Dr Paul Minty is COO of the highly innovative company, Deep Brain Stimulations Technologi...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of mortality worldwide, and many factors prevent clinicians from accurately predicting who is at risk of a heart attack.  Professor Karlheinz Peter may have the solution that could save many lives.   In this episode of Med Tech Talks, Robert Klupacs talks to internationally renowned interventional cardiologist Professor Karlheinz Peter, Deputy Director of th...

A bionic eye implant might, at one stage, have seemed like something out of a science fiction movie.   Not anymore.   An Australian bionic eye shows promise of giving functional vision back to people who have lost their sight due to a genetic condition called retinitis pigmentosa.  Being developed by Bionic Vision Technology (BVT), the bionic eye system came out of research at the Bionics Institut...

In this episode of Med Tech Talks, Robert Klupacs (CEO of the Bionics Institute) chats with Dr Ludovic Labat (CEO of Neo-Bionica) about how Australia should approach the global med tech market to increase our innovation output.  Dr Labat is the inaugural CEO of Neo-Bionica, an initiative of the Bionics Institute and the University of Melbourne.   Neo-Bionica is the first company of its kind in Aus...

In this episode of Med Tech Talks, Robert Klupacs CEO of the Bionics Institute, chats with Sarah Meibusch, a partner at one of Australia’s largest venture capital firms, One Ventures, about the current life science venture capital climate and how industry stakeholders can best present their organisations to venture capitalists.  Sarah Meibusch specialises in sourcing life science companies and, us...

In this episode of Med Tech Talks, Robert Klupacs CEO of the Bionics Institute, chats with Professor Kate Hoy (Head of Cognitive Disorders Treatment Program, Bionics Institute) about how she is pioneering a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).  Professor Hoy has built an internationally renowned program of clinical research investigating non-invasive bra...

Over 200 prominent med tech executives, investors and researchers gathered to discuss why Australia lags behind so many other countries for med tech innovation, entrepreneurship and competitiveness.  Hear how we can bridge the gap between research and commercialisation from our invited expert speakers and panelists: - Dr Andrew Nash - Chief Scientific Officer, CSL - Professor Michelle McIntosh - D...

In this episode of Med Tech Talks, Robert Klupacs CEO of the Bionics Institute, chats with Dr Megan O'Connor (founder and managing director of Kantara Consulting) about the economic opportunities supported by improved communication and collaboration between business, academia and political worlds in Australia. Dr O’Connor established Kantara Consulting to support Australian life-science compa...

In this episode of Med Tech Talks, Robert Klupacs CEO of the Bionics Institute, a world leader in the development of medical devices, talks to Lusia Guthrie, an experienced company director, founder, former CEO, technology developer and med tech entrepreneur. Listen to Lusia Guthrie as she describes herself as the 'accidental entrepreneur' detailing  her journey from the laboratory into...

In this episode of Med Tech Talks, Robert Klupacs CEO of the Bionics Institute, a world leader in the development of medical devices, talks to Professor Michelle McIntosh, Director of the  Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre and Theme Leader at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. MIPS was recently named #1 in the QS world university rankings for pharmaceutical sciences for 2022....

In this episode of Med Tech Talks, Robert Klupacs CEO of the Bionics Institute, a world leader in the development of medical devices, talks to leading neurologist Professor Mark Cook AO on his innovations to help predict and monitor seizures in patients with epilepsy.  Professor Cook has been profoundly inspired to undertake a career in neurology through witnessing his father's struggles with...

In this episode of Med Tech Talks, Robert Klupacs CEO of the Bionics Institute, a world leader in the development of medical devices, talks to Professor David Grayden, Clifford Chair of Neural Engineering in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Melbourne  Professor Grayden is a highly respected academic whose career has seen him work on flagship projects, including the coc...

In this episode of Med Tech Talks, Robert Klupacs CEO of the Bionics Institute, a world leader in the development of medical devices, talks to his colleague Dr Erol Harvey about his amazing journey from cutting diamonds with lasers, modifying the Hubble telescope and founding the incredibly successful company MiniFAB. Erol Harvey is CEO of the Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery (ACMD) that wil...

In this episode of Med Tech Talks, Robert Klupacs CEO of the Bionics Institute, a world leader in the development of medical devices, talks to CEO of Synchron about the persistence and perspiration needed to build an innovative idea into a thriving med tech start-up, and gives advice to fellow entrepreneurs. This series is dedicated to understanding what drives successful and impactful innovation...

In this episode of Med Tech Talks, Robert Klupacs CEO of the Bionics Institute, a world leader in the development of medical devices, talks to his colleague Professor James Fallon about exciting innovations at the Bionics institute that build on the knowledge gained during development of the cochlear implant.  As Chief Technology Officer and Head of Research Operations, James leads a broad range o...