Innovation and product development in medical devices
On September 8, at 11.00 am, dr. Sebastian Schostek, Ovesco Endoscopy AG, will present the Seminar "Innovation and product development in medical devices". The seminar is part of Phd in BioRobotics (Seminar Cycle on Medical Robotics and Regenerative Medicine) and is hosted by prof. Arianna Menciassi and prof. Gastone Ciuti. Streaming on Microsoft Teams from The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.
ABSTRACT
The field of medical devices is very perceptive to innovation, with the intent to improve healthcare delivery for patients, help cope with current challenges of healthcare systems such as limited capacities due to high workload and/or high cost of procedures, and to nurture industry and the business related to medical devices. At the same time, the regulatory framework poses significant hurdles to innovators and lead to a high amount of resources being required to reach a maturity level required for market approval and commercialization. The lecture aims at providing an overview of this constantly evolving field and to draft the innovation lifecycle from the idea to a medical device being established in everyday clinical routine.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Sebastian Schostek graduated in Engineering Physics from the Munich University of Applied Sciences in 2004, and received his PhD degree from the Faculty of Medicine of Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen in 2010. He worked as research fellow and lecturer at the IHCI – Institute of Healthcare Industries, Steinbeis University Berlin, before he joined novineon Healthcare Technology Partners GmbH, Tuebingen, as Business Unit Director in the fields of technological and medical research, medical product development, contract research, and business consulting. Throughout his career, he was involved in a number of national and international research projects. His work led to numerous publications, patents, lectures and awards. In 2011, he accepted the position as Vice President of the Division Diagnostic Systems at Ovesco and invented, developed and marketed new technologies such as for DC current implant fragmentation (DC Impulse) and photometric blood detection (HemoPill acute). Since 2019, he serves as lecturer at Furtwangen University, Germany.