Medical device company EMVision Medical Devices Limited (ASX: EMV), in a collaboration with the University of Queensland (UQ), Keysight Technologies and Metro South Hospital & Health Service (PA Hospital), has won a prestigious Advance QLD Industry Research Fellowship.
EMVision’s CEO, Dr Ron Weinberger, said this Fellowship includes a total of $180,000, over three years, in Advance QLD funding towards their role in EMVision’s technology development programme. The Fellow will be physically co-located between UQ (applicant), EMVision (partner) and Metro South Health (partner).
Keysight Technologies will provide in-kind contribution in the form of technical and implementation expertise. This Fellow will add further capacity to EMVision’s R&D and artificial intelligence driven electromagnetic imaging capabilities. The funding agreement for this fellowship is anticipated to be executed shortly.
The Advance Queensland Fellowship is a highly competitive process to support outstanding research projects and individuals,” Dr Weinberger said.
“This recognises the quality of research of Professor Abbosh’s team at the University of Queensland and the collaboration of its industry partners. The support of Keysight is very much appreciated and is ongoing evidence of our strong partnership and substantial progress that has been made in our project”
EMVision Medical Devices Limited is focused on the development and commercialisation of medical imaging technology. The company is developing and seeking to commercialise a potentially cost effective, portable, medical imaging device using electromagnetic microwave imaging for diagnosis and monitoring of stroke and other medical applications. The technology is the result of over 10 years of development by researchers at the University of Queensland.