Technology Transfer: A way to generate Leaders and Visionaries

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Technology Transfer A way to generate Leaders
and Visionaries

• Ata Akin
• Biomedical Engineering Institute
• Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

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What does a student expect?

• Strong theoretical background
• Build upon their existing knowledge
• New horizons
• Be an academician (?)
• Avoid obligatory military service (males)
• No idea?
• His/her friend told to do so!

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What can we offer?

• Strong theoretical background
• Add upon their existing knowledge
• New horizons
• Initial steps in being an academician
• Solution to obligatory military service
• Provide some sort of clue for future
• Lesson Never listen to your friends again!

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What is expected of us?

• Compliment RD activities w/ theoretical
  background (science and technology)
• Alternative know-how (science and technology)
• Novel approaches (science and technology)
• Take Home Message YES, please listen to your
  friends!

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Comparative Matrix
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What is this Leadership and visionary stuff,
anyway?

• MOTTO
• Medical Technology RD will never stop as long as
  there are patients to be cured.
• MOTIVATION
• There are always alternatives and better methods
  to existing systems and they can be very
  profitable
• ACTION
• Go grab the opportunities!

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How to create Leaders and Visionaries of tomorrow?

• Unconventional education generate thinkers
  rather than problem solvers
• Show them to do the right things not only do
  things right.
• No redundancy in education
• Modular education approach (tool based).
• Teach them to learn how to jump over the stones
  without tackling to them

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To-Do List of BUBME Action Items

• Reorganizing the Research Initiatives
• Upgrade to new trends,
• Improve infrastructure
• Recruit new faculty
• Upgrade and up-scale education
• Update the curriculum by adding new courses
• Generate leaders and visionaries
• Conferences, workshops
• Improve Industrial relationships
• Seek new funding sources

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Integrating Education with RD

• Senior Design (SD) Projects
• Industry Sponsored Projects
• More hands-on experience (HW, SW, wet-lab,
  clinical applications)
• Application oriented projects as opposed to
  hypothesis driven (SD, MS projects)
• Training opportunities in industry and abroad

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SD Projects

• Electrogastrogram FARMED, Inc. MIMS, Inc
• Visualization Toolbox for QEEG Signals Veritek,
  Inc.
• Neurovascular Coupling Simulation Toolbox MATLAB
  User-M-file contribution

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Graduate Level Research

• Implantable Gastric Stimulator FARMED, Inc.
• Hospital Management Systems 4TBilisim, Inc,
  Eczacibasi Health Services
• Blood Quality Management by impedance technique
  Albido, Inc.
• MRI Image processing Siemens
• etc

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To-Do List of BUBME Action Items

• Reorganizing the Research Initiatives
• Upgrade to new trends,
• Improve infrastructure
• Recruit new faculty
• Upgrade and up-scale education
• Update the curriculum by adding new courses
• Generate leaders and visionaries
• Conferences, workshops
• Improve Industrial relationships
• Seek new funding sources

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Expectations of Turkish Scientists

• Improvements in infrastructure
• Salary benefits
• Travel expenses (for faculty and students)
• Training opportunities for Ph.D. students

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Funding Opportunities

• National
• TUBITAK, DPT, University Funding, Ministry of
  Health (?), industrial partners (?)
• International
• USA NIH, DARPA, ONR, NSF (via joint programs
  with TUBITAK)
• EU 6th Framework Program ?
• Others joint TUBITAK-Israeli projects

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Comparative Matrix
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Priorities and their respective budget
allocations of FP6
Prepared by Caner Ciger, Isik Univ. IT
Department, Spring 2003
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In order to better Structure the European
Research Area the following budgets have been
allocated.
Prepared by Caner Ciger, Isik Univ. IT
Department, Spring 2003
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• To help solve these problems and to work towards
  creating ERA two new instruments have been
  designed and will be implemented in the Sixth FP
• Networks of Excellence
• Integrated Projects

Prepared by Caner Ciger, Isik Univ. IT
Department, Spring 2003
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FP6 Project-I SIMIT Scalable Integrated
Medical Information Technologies

• Purpose Provide home-based and community based
  health services via remote systems connected to
  expert system modules for immediate evaluation of
  patients conditions
• Partners
• National Eczacibasi Health Services,
  Technotower, Erenet, Isik University, Marmara
  University, 4TBilisim,
• International Israel, UK, Germany, Hungary,
  Greece

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FP6 Project-II International Neuroscience
Research Center

• Purpose To provide infrastructure and means to
  study, integrate neuroscience research throughout
  EU
• Partners Belgium based proposal
• BUBME proposes to be the national program
  coordinator

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FP6 Project - III
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Action Items

• Immediate (1-3 months)
• Integration to FP6 programs (www.bme.boun.edu.tr/
  akin)
• SIMIT Scalable Integrated Medical Information
  Technologies
• Disease Staging Modeling
• Intermediate (6-12 months)
• TUBITAK, FP6, NIH/NSF, industrial partners
• Long term (2-4 years)
• NIH partnerships, FP6 coordinator positions,
  industrial partners
• Vision (10-20 years)
• International Resource Centre for Biomedical
  Information Technologies

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Contact info
Bogaziçi Üniversitesi Biyo-Medikal Mühendisligi
Enstitüsü 34342 Bebek, Istanbul, TÜRKIYE Tel
0212 358 15 40 / 1438 Fax [phone]
www.bme.boun.edu.tr bme_at_boun.edu.tr