Building Better Futures for Health Series
The Building Better Futures for Health (BBFH) Series is a series of interviews with founders, professors, executives, and other leaders of the Australian startup community. Together with our guests, we explore and analyse the drivers and challenges of the healthcare startup community in Australia and talk about their unique journeys and stories.
Episodes
In this podcast episode, Eudaemon's co-founders, Rob Gorkin and Simon Cook, discuss their journey from academia to entrepreneurship and their challenges in bringing their next-generation hydrogel condom to market. The conversation covers topics such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's call for a better feeling condom, the unique challenges of building a Medtech business, and disrupting the 100-year-old industry of latex co...
In this episode, our host, Richard Sokolov, speaks with Morgan James, Manufacturing Director at IDE.
Richard and Morgan discuss the government’s plan to reboot Australian manufacturing, Morgan’s journey through the Medtech world, Kissick’s Iron Triangle of Healthcare and more
Links and Chapters/Timestamps below.
About Manufacturing at IDE
IDE has production facilities and fully equipped QA laboratories in Sydney (Australia) an...
Our host, Richard Sokolov, Executive Director and Co-founder of IDE Group, speaks with Sam van Bohemen, Co-founder and CEO of Nuroflux.
Richard and Sam discuss how Nuroflux is trying to solve the $6 Billion problem with a novel approach, why technology isn’t everything, and what you need as a founder for a successful commercial outcome.
About Sam van Bohemen and Nuroflux
There is a stroke every 19 minutes in Australia, and th...
Our host, Richard Sokolov, Executive Director and co-founder of IDE Group, speaks with Dr Alan Taylor, Executive Chairman of Clarity Pharmaceuticals.
About the Episode
Richard and Alan discuss advice on capital raising, the importance of having skin in the game, why intellectual property is so important in life sciences, how Clarity went from two provisional patents to biggest IPO on the ASX, and many more topics.
About Dr Alan ...
Our host, Richard Sokolov, Executive Director and co-founder of IDE Group, speaks with Anne O'Neill, Director for Enterprise and International Partnerships at the Office for Health and Medical Research (OHMR) at New South Wales (NSW) Health.
Richard and Anne discuss her role, reflections on the past two years, her passion for translating research into real-world outcomes, the NSW Health Medical Devices Fund and her hopes for 2022....
Our host, Richard Sokolov, Executive Director and co-founder of IDE Group, speaks with Prof Stephanie Watson, known for her ground-breaking research in corneal therapies with over 200 publications and international patents.
Prof Watson is a Professor at the Save Sight Institute at The University of Sydney, Head of the Corneal Unit at Sydney Eye Hospital and former winner of IDE’s BBFH Challenge
Richard and Stephanie talk ab...
Our host, Richard Sokolov, Executive Director and co-founder of IDE Group, speaks with Michael Brooks,Head of R&D Radiology at Bayer and long-time judge of IDE’s BBFH Challenge.
Richard and Mick talk about Australia’s role in the global medical device market, the importance of execution and helping the patient, advice for entrepreneurs in Medtech and more.
About the BBFH Series
The Building Better Futures for Hea...
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