Good Clinical

In this weeks episode I sit down with A/Prof Rodger Tiedemann, a Consultant Haematologist, A/Prof of Medicine, Researcher, and advocate for medicines access and clinical trials in New Zealand. We begin by chatting about Rodgers involvement in multiple myeloma research and the treatment landscape, and how targeted therapies have improved survival rates for this type of cancer. We then centre the di...

Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. In this episode meet Professor John Windsor, a Consultant Surgeon, Professor of Surgery, and Director of the Surgical & Translational Research Centre at The University of Auckland. Our conversation focuses on the development of the Limpet drainage device at Ap...

Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. In this latest episode meet Dr Patrick McHugh, a general practitioner located in Tairāwhiti, Gisborne. Patrick plays a role in several different organisations including Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti, Mātai Medical Research Institute, and the iwi health provider Turanga...

Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. This weeks guest is Dr Jo Nunnerley, a physiotherapist and researcher based at the University of Otago. We chat about Jo's development of a virtual reality tool for supporting individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), a project supported by Te Titoki Mataora....

Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. In this episode meet Dr Robyn Whittaker, the Director of Research Evidence and Clinical Trials at Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand. Our discussion focuses on Robyns involvement in Te Titoki Mataora and TTMs key role in fostering MedTech innovation in New Zealand....

Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. In this episode I chat with two Senior Research Fellows within The University of Auckland, Dr Haruna Suzuki-Kerr from the Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, and Dr Julie Choisne, from Auckland Bioengineering Institute. Dr Julie Choisne's research is in the...

Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. In this episode, meet Dr Caz Hales, a registered nurse and academic working in the research field of obesity care within health systems, based at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research focuses on reshaping the approach to healthcare for people living with...

Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. In this episode, meet Dr Gavin Harris, Anatomical Pathologist from Canterbury Health Laboratories, who discusses the development of a diagnostic assessment tool using machine-learning algorithms to assess breast cancer aggressiveness and recurrence risk. We chat a...

Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. In this latest episode, meet Prof. Maggie Huckabee, Founding Director and Chief Scientific Officer, and Emma Hayes, Chief Executive Officer, at Swaltech. Swaltech is a medical device company that have developed innovative assessment tools that clinicians can incor...

Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. In this episode, meet Dr. Yaara Yarmut, the Chief Regulatory Officer at Alimetry, a medical device company who have developed an innovative gastric monitoring device that performs body surface gastric mapping using an electrode array. Yaara discusses her journey f...

Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. In this episode, Dr. Grace Walker, Co-founder and Chief Regulatory Officer at Tautoko Technology discusses her work in developing a patch insulin pump with wraparound support and education software to improve diabetes management. One of Tautoko Technology's main g...

Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. In this episode, Professor Grant Searchfield, Head of Audiology at The University of Auckland and Founder and Scientific Director of TrueSilence Therapeutics, discusses the development of a non-invasive polytherapeutic method for the treatment of Tinnitus. The met...

Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. In this epsiode, Dr. Xuxu Amoozegar-Montero, founder of Uuna, discusses the problems with traditional bras and the innovative solution her company is developing. Uuna uses 3D scanning and knitting technology to create custom-fit bras that address issues of comfort...

Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. In this epsiode, Dr. Vickie Shim, a Senior Research Fellow at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, discusses her work in neuromechanics and its application to injury and degenerative diseases, specifically mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). She explains that neu...

Today’s guest is Dr Maddie White, Translational Scientist and Strategic Partnerships Manager at the Gillies McIndoe Research Institute in Wellington, New Zealand. This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting. Dr. Maddie White, a translational scientist and strategic partnerships manager at Gillies-McIndoe Institute, discusses the role of translational scientists in moving research from the l...

Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. Today’s guest is Dr Victor Dieriks, the Head of the Apha Synuclein Lab at the Centre for Brain Research at the University of Auckland. Dr Dieriks studies the role of alpha synuclein in the development of Parkinson's Disease and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). Parki...

Today’s guest is Dr Haruna Suzuki-Kerr, Research Fellow at the University of Auckland in the Auditory & Vestibular Translational Neuroscience Cluster. This episode is part of the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series, in collaboration with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator. Hearing loss is a common problem, in fact 1 in 6 people experience some form of hearing loss. Broadly speakin...

Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series.  Te Titoki Mataora (TTM) is a New Zealand-based organization focused on translating basic science into real outcomes in healthcare. Here to provide an background to Te Titoki Mataora, the current framework to support research translation and some forward thinking...

Today’s guest is Charlotte Bradshaw, the Founder & CEO of Evrima Technologies. This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting: https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/ Evrima aims to solve the problem of finding patients for clinical trials by building networks of clinicians and integrating trial information into their workflow. The goal is to make it easier for healthcare providers to identify...

Today’s guest is John Robson (JR), General Manager at Bridgewest Ventures NZ, and Managing Director of BioOra, a company that is automating the manufacture of CAR T-cells. This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting: https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/ The development of new technologies, whether it be medical or otherwise, requires a lot of resources. One of those resources is capital - fi...

Today’s guest is Cameron Quilter, and Clinical Research Associate (CRA) at Novotech. This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting: https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/ In most Clinical Research Trials, there are three players: The "Sponsor" - the entity that is funding the research and could be a pharmaceutical company, insitute or other non-profit entity; The "Site" - hospital or private res...

Today’s guest is Dr Zahra Champion, Executive Director of BiotechNZ. This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting: https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/ Biotechnology is a broad category, and ranges from the use of yeast to brew beer, something humans have been doing for the past 9,000 years to manipulating our DNA to fight cancer, something we have been doing for last 20 years. Biotech is a p...

Today’s guest is Dr Paul Hamilton, Clinical Director of Early Phase Research at Pacific Clinical Research Network (PCRN). This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting: https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/ New medicines are first studied in animals before they are tested in humans. Animal testing provides an insight into the efficacy, safety and tolerability of the new medicine. But before a n...

Today’s guest is Dr Brian Ward, Founder and CEO of Aroa Biosurgery, an ASX-listed, biotech company with with a ~$200 m AUD market capitalization. This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting. Aroa Biosurgery is a New Zealand-based, ASX-listed biotech company that develops and commercializes novel products that promote wound healing and soft-tissue repair. Their proprietary products, develope...

Today’s guest is Madhu Vyas, Theranostics Site Leader at Mercy Radiology, and Programme Lead at Unitec.  This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting PTY Ltd https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/ Nuclear Medicine, Molecular Imaging and Radiochemistry sound like terms pulled straight from a science fiction novel. Yet the use of radioactive materials for the purposes of diagnosing and treating d...