Lab Course BioInnovation: from unmet clinical needs to solution concepts

by Dr. Christoph Hennersperger, Prof. Nassir Navab
Tutors: Julia Rackerseder, Isabel Schellinger, Dominik Böhler

Type: Master Practical Course Module IN2106, Module IN2257, Module IN8021
Course Title: BioInnovation: from unmet clinical needs to solution concepts - Link to TUMOnline

Programs lab course: Biomedical Computing (Master), Informatics (Master), Informatics (Diploma)
Programs elective course: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, School of Management
SWS: 6
ECTS: 10 Credits

Meetings: See schedule below
The course will be conducted in English.

Important News

New application deadline: 15-MAR-17

What is BioInnovation?

Do you want to find out about medical innovation? Do you want to develop a concept that can solve a clinical need? Do you want to find a good idea for a start-up company?

Then you should join BioInnovation, a hands-on seminar where you learn how to successfully identify unmet clinical needs within the clinical routine and work towards possible and realistic solutions to solve those needs. You get to know tools helping you to be a successful innovator in medical technology. This includes all steps from needs finding and selection to defining appropriate solution concepts, including the development of first prototypes. During the course, necessary steps for successful idea and concept creation are presented and fully realized in interdisciplinary project teams. During the project phase, each team is supported by coaches from academia, industry and medicine, in order to allow for direct and continuous exchange.

Course Features

• Work in interdisciplinary teams.
• Spend a minimum of three full days in full clinical immersion, identifying unmet needs.
• Get training by UnternehmerTUM tutors about coordinated brain storming, needs identification, needs selection and concept generation.
• Build your first prototype, with support from UnternehmerTUM MakerSpace.

For more details about the course and our project BioInnovation please visit the project webpage: http://campar.in.tum.de/Chair/ProjectBioInnovation

Who should participate?

We accept and encourage students of all possible disciplines to join this lab course. Focusing on medical technology and applications to the clinical routine, we anticipate a broad field of studies as main audience, including:

• Computer scientists
• Engineers of any kind
• Biologists, chemists, physicists
• Business administration and economics students

Students should have basic knowledge and understanding of medical technology, with an interest in innovation within this field. Due to the interdisciplinarity of the project teams, skills within the respective area of speciality will be required throughout the progress of the lab course. We encourage students to work pro-actively to exchange within, but also across the borders of the teams.

Passing requirements

• Active participation and presence in the skills blocks and meetings
• Submission of all assignments in time
• Presentation of intermediate and final concept work.

How to be part of it!

Please apply for this lab course by mail in advance. We will select appropriate candidates based on their background, interests, and motiviation. The notification of acceptance to the course will be distributed before final courses have to be selected. For application, please send your CV, an up to date score sheet, and a paragraph explaining your motivation for applying to this course (10 lines max) to julia.rackerseder@tum.de. Application deadline is 15-MAR-2017!

Collaborating Medical Departments

• Frauenklinik und Poliklinik der Technischen Universität München - Klinikum Rechts der Isar
• Urologische Klinik und Poliklinik der Technischen Universität München - Klinikum Rechts der Isar
• Vascular Surgery - Helios Kliniken München-West

Course Phases

Period	Working Phase
24-APR - 03-MAY	Tools at hand for successful innovation in medical technology
23-JUN - 19-JUL	Prototype construction, concept development and testing
09-JUN - 23-JUN	Concept brainstorming and creation
26-MAY - 09-JUN	Collection and preparation of needs
03-MAY - 26-MAY	Clinical observation in practice and daily routine

Schedule (Preliminary)

Date	Topic	Conducted by	Location	Materials
19-JAN-2017 // 1530 - 1615	Preliminary meeting ("Vorbesprechung")	Course Tutors	CAMP Seminar Room, 03.13.010	Slides
26-JAN-2017 // 1540 - 1616	Second Preliminary meeting ("Vorbesprechung")	Course Tutors	CAMP Seminar Room, 03.13.010	Slides
15-MAR-2017 // 2359	Application Deadline
26-APR-2017 // 0900 - 1700	This is BioInnovation, teams, specialty Intro	BioInnovation Team	Highlight Towers	Slides Slides
02-MAY-2017 // 0900 - 1700	Needs and DesignThinking	BioInnovation Team	UnternehmerTUM room Berta
03-MAY-2017 // 0900 - 1700	BioDesign and needs screening	BioInnovation Team	UnternehmerTUM room Berta	Slides
04-MAY-2017 -- 08-MAY-2017	Clinical introductions	BioInnovation Team & Student teams & Clinical advisors	TBD
17-MAY-2017 // 1400 - 1530	Biweekly update	Student teams	MI02.07.034
31-MAY-2017 // 1400 - 1530	Biweekly update	Student teams	MI02.07.034
07-JUN-2017 // 1400 - 1730	Presentation front-runner needs	Student teams	IAS Conference room
21-JUN-2017 // 1400 - 1530	Biweekly update	Student teams	MI02.07.034
28-JUN-2017 // 1400 - 1730	Presentation front-runner concepts and MVPs	Student teams	UnternehmerTUM room Berta
12-JUL-2017 // 1400 - 1730	Pitch-perfect individual sessions	BioInnovation Team & Student teams	TBD
20-JUL-2017 // 1900 - 2300	BioInnnovation Summer Symposium	BioInnovation Team & Student teams	TBD
TBD	Final report due	Student teams
26-JUL-2017 // 1400 - 1730	What's next? Reflection and Future	BioInnovation Team & Student teams	UnternehmerTUM?, room Julius

Literature and Resources

Innovation projects

• Stanford BioDesign program