Kobe University held a kick-off symposium on October 2019, 10 to commemorate the establishment of the "Future Biomedical Engineering Research and Development Center," a university-wide organization for biomedical engineering collaboration.
At Kobe University, in order to promote the development of domestically produced medical devices, which is an important national policy, the Graduate School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Engineering have taken the lead in launching a biomedical engineering collaboration project in the Advanced Fusion Research Circle, and have steadily achieved results. .. In April 2019, the "Future Biomedical Engineering Research and Development Center" was established by further developing this field-integrated medical device development system.
A university-wide organization aimed at developing medical devices based on clinical field needs and developing human resources necessary for the development. Development strategy department, biocompatible material development department, treatment equipment development department, diagnostic equipment development department, peripheral equipment development. A department will be set up to identify needs for developing advanced medical devices with high international competitiveness, create the concept of solutions, verify and commercialize strategies, and develop human resources who will contribute to this.
The symposium on October 10 was attended by 8 people from inside and outside the university, and opening remarks by President Hiroshi Takeda, Director Toshiji Mukai, etc., outline and purpose of establishment of the center, guidelines for creative development human resources development and medical device development system The explanation was given.In addition, "Development and future prospects of surgery support robots from Kobe" by Mr. Hirofumi Tanaka, Managing Director of Medicaroid Corporation, and "Collaboration between Biomaterials Research and Development and Medical and Dental Engineering" by Professor Takao Makoto, Institute of Biomaterials and Dentistry, Institute of Biomaterials and Dentistry, Tokyo. A keynote speech was also given.
