Translating innovative healthcare ideas can be challenging. Regulatory requirements, clinical implementation, and complex payment models all need to be considered. No innovator can do it all by themselves and it is critical to seek out others with complementary skillsets to address the different challenges of turning an innovation into a viable solution.
Please join us for this morning tea as we explore, with key members of the UNSW entrepreneurial ecosystem, how to identify the required skillsets and build innovative multidisciplinary teams that enable successful healthcare innovations.
In conversation with
Dr Lamont Tang, Director of Industry Projects, and Entrepreneur-In-Residence, AGSM
Dina Titkova, Health 10x and Scale Up Program Manager, UNSW Founders
Dr Ian Goon, Head of Strategy and Innovation, Tyree IHealthE (facilitator).
The morning teas are a chance to get together and hear experiences and lessons from a range of speakers, meet the Tyree IHealthE team, and have plenty of time for questions and discussion. Please bring a cup of tea and we will supply the cake. Everyone is welcome to attend.
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Dina Titkova | Investment & Scale Up Program Manager at UNSW Founders
Dina is Investment & Scale Up Program Manager at UNSW Founders, where she launched and then scaled nationally Health 10x Startup Accelerator Program, supporting growth of over 100 health startups and overseeing investments into 21 of them. Prior to this role, Dina held various business development positions in HealthTech companies (including startups) across Australia, Sweden and Russia. Biomedical engineer by training, she then obtained Master in Bioentrepreneurship from Karolinska Institute in Sweden and currently doing MBA at AGSM.
Dr Lamont Tang | Director of Industry Projects, and Entrepreneur-In-Residence, AGSM
Lamont is a neuroscientist (Stanford BS, Brandeis Ph.D. Neuroscience) and Director of Industry Projects, and Entrepreneur-In-Residence, AGSM. Inspired by his children, Lamont founded Oyalabs to create Wunder - a science based AI and hardware platform for caregivers to be able to monitor their child's learning environment and to clinically improve learning outcomes. Lamont has worked in industry with Fortune 500 companies (Roche), startups (Deltagen, Gogograd, ChronoCloud) and in academia as a lecturer and researcher (University of California San Francisco, Brandeis University, Stanford University). Lamont is also a member of Stanford StartX, an accelerator that selects for top Stanford entrepreneurs.
Dr Ian Goon | Head of Strategy and Innovation, Tyree IHealthE
Ian has a background in scientific research, developing nano-materials for biosensing applications and subsequently spent 4 years in a commercially focused-role as a strategy consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in Southeast Asia. Ian co-founded a health technology startup focused on building digital tools for healthcare research projects, prior to joining Tyree IHealthE. His work included leading the development and implementation of technology platforms for the South Asia Biobank (South Asia and UK) and the SG100K population health study in Singapore. Ian holds a BEng (Chemical) and Ph.D from UNSW and obtained an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge as a Chevening scholar.