Lab Course BioInnovation: from unmet clinical needs to solution concepts

by Dr. Christoph Hennersperger, Prof. Nassir Navab
Tutors: Julia Rackerseder, Isabel Schellinger, Marina Moskvina, Ines Plum, Tobias Förtsch

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

• Application deadline is 30-SEP-17
• Preliminary Meeting is on 12-JUL-2017, 1315-1400

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 for 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 interested in innovation within field. Due to the interdisciplinarity of project teams, skills within the respective area of specialty will be required throughout the progress of the lab course. We encourage students to work pro-actively with exchange within, but also across the borders of the teams.

Passing requirements

• Active participation and presence in the workshops 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 30-SEP-2017!

Collaborating Medical Departments

• Urologische Klinik und Poliklinik der Technischen Universität München - Klinikum Rechts der Isar
• Vascular Surgery - Helios Kliniken München-West
• Institut für Allgemeine Pathologie und Pathologische Anatomie - Klinikum Rechts der Isar
• Institut für diagnostische und interventionelle Radiologie

Course Phases

Period	Working Phase
25-OCT-2017 -- 19-NOV-2017	Clinical observation in practice and daily routine
19-NOV-2017 -- 30-NOV-2017	Collection and validation of needs in practice
30-NOV-2017 -- 20-DEC-2017	Concept brainstorming and creation
20-DEC-2017 -- 25-JAN-2017	Prototype construction, concept development and testing
16-OCT-2017 -- 25-OCT-2017	Tools at hand for successful innovation in medical technology

Schedule (Preliminary)

Date	Topic	Conducted by	Location	Materials
12-JUL-2017 // 1315 - 1400	Preliminary meeting ("Vorbesprechung")	Course Tutors	MI 00.13.036	Slides
25-JUL-2017 // 2359	Application Deadline for Computer Science students (Matching system
30-SEP-2017 // 2359	Application Deadline
17-OCT-2017 // 0900 - 1700	Workshop: This is BioInnovation, Design Thinking, Needs finding, Prototyping	BioInnovation team	UnternehmerTUM Raum Anton	Slides
24-OCT-2017 // 0900 - 1700	Workshop: Teams, Specialty Intro	BioInnovation team	TranslaTUM Forum (left side)
25-OCT-2017 // 0900 - 1700	Workshop: Needs evaluation & Storytelling	BioInnovation team	Industrial Design Seminar Room, Arcisstraße 21 (morning) AND Seminar room 0514 (afternoon)	Storytelling Needs
26-OCT-2017 -- 30-OCT-2017	Clinical introductions - one initial meeting with clinical advisors during that period	BioInnovation team & Student teams & Clinical advisors
08-NOV-2017 // 1400 - 1530	Biweekly update	Student teams	TranslaTUM Seminar room
22-NOV-2017 // 0900 - 1700	Workshop: Market analysis and regulatory constraints & Biweekly update	BioInnovation team & Student teams	TranslaTUM Forum (left side)
06-DEC-2017 // 1400 - 1730	Presentation front-runner needs	Student teams	TranslaTUM Forum (left side)
13-DEC-2017 // 1400 - 1530	Biweekly update	Student teams	Industrial Design Seminar Room, Arcisstraße 21
20-DEC-2017 // 1400 - 1730	Presentation front-runner concepts and MVPs	Student teams	TranslaTUM Forum (left side)
10-JAN-2018 // 1400 - 1530	Biweekly update	Student teams	TranslaTUM Seminar room
17-JAN-2018 // 1400 - 1730	Presentation final concept and prototype // Pitch-perfect individual sessions	BioInnovation team & Student teams	UnternehmerTUM Room Berta
25-JAN-2018 // 1800 - 2400	BioInnnovation Winter Symposium	BioInnovation team & Student teams
20-FEB-2018 // 2359	Final delieverables due	Student teams
31-JAN-2018 // 1400 - 1730	What's next? Reflection and Future	BioInnovation team & Student teams

Literature and Resources

Innovation projects

• Stanford BioDesign program