Team Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, The University of Queensland, Metro North Hospital and Health Service and Queensland Health, with Stryker, have opened Stryker’s R&D lab located in Herston Health Precinct.
Kevin Lobo, CEO Stryker, visited Brisbane to inaugurate the lab with Yvette D’Ath , QLD Minister for Health, Prof Margaret Sheil, VC QUT and Prof Deborah Terry, VC UQ. Read the Stryker news here.
The R&D lab will help drive medical technology innovation and collaboration to improve patient outcomes and solidify the state’s capability and reputation as a global science and research leader. The purpose is to advance research focused on the development of innovative medical technology products.
We are very proud of our research collaboration with Stryker over the last 15 years through Prof Ross Crawford, QUT Chair of Orthopaedic research, who has been at the interface of translation of research into clinical practice. As a design consultant for Stryker and research through QUT lead to the redesign of a subset of the Exeter Total Hip Implant (largest selling hip implant in the world-sales over US$100M).
Dr Anjali Jaiprakash, PhD Jaiprakash, as the Inaugural Advance Queensland Research Fellow (AQRF) led the development of the world’s first patented robotic limb manipulation system that closes the loop to develop integrated complex surgical robots. US Patent Grant Number: 20200261297 (2019) – Systems and Methods for Assisting Surgery . This was in partnership with Stryker, Holy Spirit North Side Private Hospital and Prince Charles Hospital Foundation.
Dr Marie-Luise Wille, as the Researcher Exchange and Development within Industry (REDI) Fellowship program, is currently working with Stryker on standardising its workflow for patient-specific biomedical implants manufactured at the point of care. This is in partnership with Stryker, QUT Centre for Transformative Biomimetics in Bioengineering and the QUT Centre for Biomedical Technologies.
Thank you to the Queensland Government for enabling industry collaborations (AQRF and REDI), Stryker and QUT.