RCBE held medical-engineering collaboration seminar with Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Research Center for Biomedical Engineering (RCBE) held a medical seminar with Medical-Engineering Collaboration HUB Organization of Tokyo Metropolitan on December 8, 2022. The audience of the seminar were engineers from 700 manufacturers of medical equipment in Tokyo. The theme of this time is "Challenges of Academia Ventures Aiming for Tomorrow's Medical Technology". Four professors who are managing their venter-companies gave us lectures; Prof. Toru Aoki of Shizuoka University's Electronic Engineering Research Institute, Prof. Akio Kuroda of Hiroshima University's Nano Device Research Institute, Professor Tadahiko Shinshi of the Institute of Future Interdisciplinary Research of Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Professor Masashi Ikeuchi of the Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University. The number of WEB participants is 90 (39 manufacturing and sales companies, 14 manufacturing companies, 3 clinical institutions, 16 research institutes, 1 government/public institution, 11 stakeholders, and 6 others).

At the beginning of the seminar, Professor Akihiro Miyauchi of RCBE, Tokyo Medical and Dental University gave an overview of the RCBE. After that, Professor Aoki introduced high-sensitivity, high-contrast, high-resolution, and low-noise X-ray imaging technology. Then Professor Kuroda introduced exosome extraction technology, and Professor Shinshi introduced a disposable centrifugal blood pump used in artificial heart implants and ECMO. At last, Professor Ikeuchi introduced low-cost mass production technology for cell clusters (spheroids).

Prior to the question and answer session on the characteristics of each technology, there was a discussion on funding and business strategies from the perspective of venture management this time. Though a short time, it was meaningful to discuss with engineers in related medical field how the university's technology can be implemented to society.