Medtech Actuator Menzies Scholarship

MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholarship – Applications now open for the 2022 Medtech Actuator Menzies Scholars

Offered to 10 junior scientists
Each Scholarship valued at $10,000 (including a $1,000 stipend)
3-month Scholarship (approx. 1-2 days/month) including an intensive one-week program focused on the commercialisation of research, including intellectual property, pitching, start-up 101, finance for beginners, business modelling, design thinking, path-to-market, and market analysis.

The Foundation is delighted to announce the following ten high-potential health, medical and biotechnology researchers have been selected to each receive a 2021 MedTech Actuator Menzies Scholarship – supporting them to develop a career that fuses science, research, and entrepreneurship.

Group 1: April to June 2021

Dr Sohyb Basir: A digital waiting-room for emergency departments to capture real-time data from patients through their own mobile devices.
Ritesh Warty: Developing a pessary with embedded technologies to rehabilitate the pelvic floor.
Dr Chia-Chi Chien: Conducting controlled experiments using an innovative 3D microtissue-on-a-chip approach for precision medicine applications.
Julie Dao: Australian first repository platform which enables clinicians to make more efficient and effective decisions whilst simultaneously accelerating the translation of research into better patient outcomes
Ethan Grooby: Mobile based audio-visual system for accessible newborn monitoring.
Alinta Furnell: Simple and discreet way to test for sexually transmitted infections.
Debolina Majumdar: To develop an AI based cough sound monitoring for early diagnosis and monitoring of various respiratory infections.
Dr Luke Visscher: A clinical applicable software pipeline for automated fracture CT segmentation and virtual reduction for computer-aided orthopedic surgery.
Dr Martina Barzan: Through the development of patient digital twins and 3D printed surgical guides, this project aims to optimize patient outcomes and improve the technical performance during complex pediatric orthopedic surgeries
Hope Newman: Investigating potential biomarkers of egg quality in assisted reproductive technology.

Group 2: October to December 2021

Dr Sebastian Corlette, Anaesthetist, Royal Children’s Hospital and PhD Candidate, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the University of Melbourne. Project: Developing a new sensor for high-quality, long-term electroencephalogram (EEG) measurement in young babies.

Darcy Dunn-Lawless, Master of Engineering (Biomedical), Flinders University. Project: Developing a new medical implant for cancer patients who have had orthopaedic surgery.
Adaeze Ekwe, PhD Candidate, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and Queensland University of Technology. Project: Developing a novel cellular therapy for graft-versus-host disease using genetically modified regulatory T cells.
Erin Humphries, Research Assistant at Children’s Medical Research Institute and Masters by Research Student at the University of Sydney. Project: Discovering new biological insights into cancer.
Ismat Kabbara, Co-founder, Synbiote and Master of Science in Anatomy, University of NSW. Project: Making biological materials for pharmaceuticals more efficient to manufacture and affordable.
Marta Orlowska, PhD Candidate, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and Queensland University of Technology. Project: Tackling metabolic shifts in cell culturing through environment control.
Dr Rowan Page, Lecturer and Industrial Design Program Director, Monash University. Project: Developing a wearable light sensing device to guide people toward healthier light exposure patterns.
Dr Anushi Rajapaksa, Senior Research Officer, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Founder, Think Project Global. Project: Developing rapid, life-saving drug delivery for children with infectious respiratory disease.
Rance Brennan B. Tino, PhD Candidate, RMIT Centre for Additive Manufacturing, RMIT University. Project: 3D Printing of bespoke phantoms for treatment planning verifications in radiotherapy
April Van Der Kamp, PhD Candidate, Flinders University. Project: Developing novel diabetic foot ulcer treatments.

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