Two Swinburne University of Technology MedTechVic initiatives will be boosted by the Victorian Government's new Health-led Manufacturing Innovation Program (HMIP), designed to deliver more clinically focused medtech manufacturing activity in the state, and create more jobs in the sector.
Minister for Innovation, Medical Research and the Digital Economy, The Hon. Jaala Pulford, launched the program today at Swinburne's Factory of the Future, part of the university's MedTechVic research hub, launched last year with $6.7 million from the Victorian Higher Education State Investment Fund.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Professor Karen Hapgood, said the HMIP, which has awarded Swinburne's MedTechVic with $400,000 in grants for two pilot programs, would help create new approaches, methods and operational models.
Pictured left to right: Nanette Fitzgerald, Professor Rachael McDonald, Minister Jaala Pulford, Shelley Jackson and Karen Hapgood
LivingAT Health Innovation Challenge
"Our MedTechVic team created Australia's first Assistive Technology Living Facility (LivingAT), and this new funding will help amplify the exciting innovation work that is happening at LivingAT," said Professor Hapgood.
"We want to ensure assistive technologies can be manufactured in Victoria to help support people to fully participate in society, live their lives independently and support their health.
"We are grateful to the Victorian Government for its support in bringing this important initiative to life."
MedTechVic Director Professor Rachael McDonald explained that people would be at the centre of the LivingAT pilot.
