Prof Adam Dubis' Inaugural Lecture - From idea to clinical change: Lessons in commercialisation

Lecture:

With the eye being the window to the brain, eye care has shown one of the most interesting and commercially successful pairings of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and digital health solutions in medicine. In this talk we will explore the developments of commercial products along one stream of this path, Age Related Macular Degeneration. We will look at one investigator’s contribution to how initial investigations lead to changes in disease detection, new device development and commercialisation and ultimately to digital solutions for clinical workflow.

Structure:

18:00 - 18:15: Welcome address - Professor Nora Colton

18:15 - 19:15: Lecture by Professor Adam Dubis, followed by a Q&A session.

Speaker’s Bio:

Prof Adam Dubis is an enterprise minded educator, specialising in image and health data analysis. Throughout his career, he has focused on challenging questions in translational medicine, from the standpoint of biomedical engineering specifically in device and analytics research and enterprise. Since the beginning of his postgraduate work, his focus has always been on translating research from in silico to bedside. He has sought to continually build personal and team development tackling new challenging areas for myself and working in multidisciplinary teams to deliver successful outcomes through commercialisation of several devices and algorithms. Moving to London in 2013, he has continued his enterprise activities consulting for a number of start-ups, as well as commercialising health analytics through patent filings and spin out companies. These experiences and skills have made him a sought-after partner in both academic and enterprise circles for developing data platforms, developing data leveraging strategies and ultimately guiding the development of data driven leadership throughout medical and enterprise operations. He has been part of the leadership and build teams of university and state level data platforms. His work has focused on key areas of development such as patient and user experience, data security and analytics pipeline development. He is a strong advocate for patient rights and their inclusion in data hubs and data for good initiatives. His current expertise in data driven analytics and data driven decision support is supported by working expertise with appointments in the EU, Switzerland, Asia and the US.