Clearing the path for health tech innovators
The second phase of Callaghan Innovation’s HealthTech Activator rollout offers early to mid-stage health tech companies easier access to a huge depth of resources, skills and expertise.
Down on the Farm
Researchers often spend time in the field and Dr Mark Oliver is no exception – except his field is often full of sheep.
Hi-tech support for better mental health
Maia is a startup focused on helping people do just that. The company was founded by Associate Professor Suranga Nanayakkara, together with Jerome Humphrey and Jenna Cunning, and is based on their work at the Augmented Human Lab at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. Maia resides at Cloud9, the Auckland Bioengineering Institute’s start-up space where fledgling companies associated with its research are nurtured until they can stand on their own.
Ready Results
Imagine sitting under a tree in sub-Saharan Africa detecting virus DNA using a hand-held machine that works as well as those in your laboratory.
Meet Will Hewitt, the 20-year-old Kiwi transforming cardiology
At 20 years old, Auckland student Will Hewitt is already on the frontline in the fight against heart disease.
NIH announces more than $98M in contracts for new COVID-19 testing tech
The National Institutes of Health today announced six new contracts worth $98.35 million for COVID-19 testing approaches that provide new modes of sample collection, processing and return of results.
Clearing the path for healthtech innovators
Innovators operating in one of the country’s largest and most-promising specialist technology sectors are getting a helping hand to speed up and smooth out their path to success.
Kiwi startup Soul Machines bags $60 million for tech bridging the human-AI divide
New Zealand emotional AI startup Soul Machines has raised $US40 million ($58 million) in Series B funding, to boost research and development for its computer-generated customer support characters with ‘digital brains’.
Impacting surgical disease across the globe
Pokhara, Nepal, a remote, low-income community affected by poverty, geopolitical challenges and devastating natural disasters continues to inspire the work of Professor Ian Bissett, the Director of the Indigenous and Global Surgery Group at the STaR Centre.
Rethinking MRI Scanners
A collaboration of scientists and engineers from ‘Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’, Harvard, Yale, University of Minnesota, and the University of Sao Paulo has resulted in new technology to make MRIs more comfortable, accessible, and affordable