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2021年10月25日新闻秘书处消息，政府正在投资”起居室”医学技术研究翻译器，以提供新的医疗工具，同时满足全球大流行病和人口增长和老龄化的需求。研究、科学和创新部副部长艾莎·维说：”COVID-19已经表明，我们需要建立一个更具弹性、更有生产力、更具创新性和经济上可持续的卫生系统。 ‘起居室’利用了新西兰的生物工程和医疗保健专业知识。这是一个新的方案，用于将公共资助的研究结果转化为解决未满足的临床需求的办法。这将改善个性化护理、诊断和治疗，并为新西兰人带来更公平的医疗保健结果。
该方案将资助奥克兰生物工程研究所的专业知识和活动，该研究所旨在使医疗技术研究从板凳上消失并投入业务。它将促进新西兰各大学合作项目的发展。政府在三年内投资810万纽币。每个项目将有一名研究员、临床医生和商业化专家。该方案将通过向研究人员提供基础前资金来加速最有前途的项目。该基金还将通过支持医疗技术部门的增长，为新西兰从COVID-19的经济复苏做出贡献”。
艾莎·维拉尔说： “医疗技术行业是第二大第二产业，2019 年价值 19 亿纽币，当时卫生技术占我们前200家科技企业的11%。这项重要的投资支持了我们的研究人员和科学家每天所做出令人难以置信的工作。研究人员是我们科学界的核心，优秀的人能够带来优秀的研究和成果。多样性创造了思想的最佳竞争，并提供了反映我们多样化社会需求的更广阔的视角。我们希望确保′起居室′名副其实，与毛利人和太平洋岛屿族裔建立强有力的伙伴关系，支持新的研究，重点是共同创造技术，重新平衡不平等的保健。′起居室′研究翻译器专注于医疗设备和数字健康技术，为未满足的临床需求提供解决方案，具有以可持续方式实现商业成果和改善健康结果的潜力。虽然′起居室′由奥克兰大学主办，但它是一项全国性的倡议，将支持全国各地的合作研究项目”。
视力测试 – Jason Turuwhenua博士（左）和Mohammad Norouzifard博士一直在对毛利学者进行新型的视力测试。他们的工作商业化是医疗技术翻译器将支持的项目类型。
飞度初创公司JunoFem最近完成了超过100万纽币的一轮的啟动融资，将其适合的设备推向全球市场。三分之一的妇女患有尿失禁，其中大部分可以通过正确和定期的盆底肌肉锻炼得到解决–而这种设备可以用来帮助妇女有效地进行盆底锻炼。飞度是医疗科技翻译器将支持的医疗设备商业化类型的一个例子。
25 October 2021，
Funding to translate science into real life solutions
The Government is investing in ‘Te Tītoki Mataora’ the MedTech Research Translator, to deliver new medical tools – and meet both the demands of a global pandemic and of a growing and aging population.
“COVID-19 has shown that we need to build a more resilient, productive, innovative and economically-sustainable health system,” Associate Minister of Research, Science and Innovation Ayesha Verrall said.
“Te Tītoki Mataora harnesses New Zealand’s bioengineering and healthcare expertise. It is a new programme for translating the findings from publicly-funded research into solutions for unmet clinical needs.
“This will enable improvements in personalised care, diagnostics and therapy, and result in more equitable healthcare outcomes for New Zealanders.
“The programme will fund expertise and activities at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, which aims to get medical technology research off the bench and into business. It will facilitate the development of collaborative projects across New Zealand universities.”
The Government is investing $8.1 million over three years. Each project will have a researcher, clinician and commercialisation expert on the team. The programme will accelerate the most promising projects by providing pre-seed funding to researchers.
“This fund will also contribute to New Zealand’s economic recovery from COVID-19, by supporting the growth of the medical technology sector,” Ayesha Verrall said.
The medical technology sector is the second-largest secondary industry, valued at $1.9 billion in 2019 when health-tech accounted for 11 percent of our top 200 tech businesses.
“This important investment supports the incredible work our researchers and scientists do every day. People are central to our scientific community, and excellent people lead to excellent research and outcomes.
“Diversity creates the best competition of ideas and provides wider perspectives that reflect the needs of our diverse society. We want to ensure that Te Tītoki Mataora lives up to its name with strong Māori and Pasifika partnerships underpinning new research – focusing on co-created technologies that rebalance health inequities,” Ayesha Verrall said.
Te Tītoki Mataora – the MedTech Research Translator focuses on medical devices and digital health technologies generating solutions for unmet clinical needs, with a potential for both commercial outcomes and improved health outcomes in a sustainable manner.
While Te Tītoki Mataora is hosted by the University of Auckland, it is a national initiative and will support collaborative research projects across the country.
Vision testing – Dr Jason Turuwhenua (left) and Dr Mohammad Norouzifard have been trialling a new type of vision testing with Māori schoolchildren. Commercialisation of their work is the type of project the MedTech Translator will support.
Femfit – Startup company JunoFem has recently closed a more than $1 million seed funding round to take its femfit device (pictured) to the global market. One in three women suffer from urinary incontinence, the majority of which can be resolved with correct and regular pelvic floor muscle exercise – and this device can be used to help women effectively perform pelvic floor exercises. The femfit is an example of the type of medical device commercialisation the MedTech Translator will support.
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