A translation fund for academic surgical devices and radiotherapy technology
New surgical tools, imaging probes and radiotherapy hardware invented in universities rarely attract investors. A dedicated fund would pay for prototyping, safety testing and first-in-human studies.
A fund for academic devices and techniques in cancer surgery and radiotherapy: intraoperative imaging probes, margin-assessment tools, low-cost brachytherapy applicators, FLASH-capable beam systems, adaptive planning software, robotic instruments. It pays for design-for-manufacture, ISO 13485 quality systems, biocompatibility and safety testing and IDEAL-framework early studies. Device venture capital is thin outside cardiology and orthopaedics, and academic engineering groups have no path to first-in-human without it. The fund would work with translational institutes and the surgical and radiotherapy trials networks proposed elsewhere in this wave.
- The valley of death between lab and product · Most academic discoveries die before anyone tests them in people because nobody funds the middle step.
- Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least · Surgery and radiotherapy cure more people than drugs do, but attract a fraction of the research investment.
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