Around 80 excellent proposals have been received from
clinician researchers from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
in Phase 1 of the MIME Seed fund process. In this first phase clinician
researchers in our partner hospitals were invited to outline areas of unmet
clinical need that could potentially be addressed by engineering and IT
innovation. The proposals received covered a broad range of clinical areas,
such as cardiovascular, neuro and mental health, musculoskeletal, surgical
training, trauma, cancer and kidney disease. The accepted proposals can be
viewed on the MIME website.
Phase 2 is now open – we invite all Monash researchers to
peruse the clinical opportunities put forward in Phase 1 to identify how your
research expertise could potentially contribute to solving a major clinical
need. The range of research expertise needed is also very broad – such as
biomaterials, microfluidics, sensors, mechatronics, wearable technologies,
image analysis, data mining, industrial design, CFD, biomarkers and
bioinformatics, nanotechnology, decision support and app development.
For those topics where you have relevant expertise and are
interested in being part of the solution team, please contact the clinician
researcher to discuss the area further. Contact details are available on the MIME
website. As many of the clinical needs will require a multidisciplinary team to
solve the challenge, MIME is able to assist in arranging workshops or
brainstorming sessions for potential team members. Please contact MIME's Executive Officer, Susan Newland susan.newland@monash.edu.
When your team has formulated a proposed R&D program
that addresses the clinical challenge, the lead researcher should submit a
Phase 2 application for MIME seed funding. Up to $50 000 may be requested per
project area, to deliver a meaningful outcome within 12-18 months. If the area
of clinical need has a longer term research challenge that befits a PhD
program, teams are invited to flag if they wish to co-supervise a PhD student.
11-12 MIME PhD scholarships are available.
Phase 2 application forms can be downloaded from the MIME
website, and must be submitted to Susan Newland, susan.newland@monash.edu by 31 July. Any Monash staff
member may submit the application or be part of the team, but the team must
include the initiating clinician researcher, and a researcher from either
Faculty of Engineering or Faculty of IT. In Phase 2, only submissions directly
responding to a clinical opportunity put forward in Phase 1 are eligible for
MIME seed funding.