Delivery of modern drugs poses some problems and Dr James McKeage may have an answer. McKeage is a Research Fellow with the Bioinstrumentation Lab at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) based at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland. He focuses on needle-free jet injection technology where fluid drugs are delivered as a fine, high-speed jet. His goal is to use this technology to allow patient self-administration and improve patient outcomes.

The Medical Design & Innovation Research Cluster provides product design and development research expertise for health research agendas, with collaborating partners from: industry, primary and secondary health care sectors, clinicians and related research institutions. The purpose is to innovate within the health sector (human and animal health), by leveraging our newly cemented partnership with the Consortium of Medical Device Technologies (CMDT).

Angelica Lawson was working in Audiology when she came up with two game-changers for the screening and prevention of Type 2 diabetes. “I was seeing more and more patients with permanent severe hearing loss due to late and misdiagnosed diabetes; it got to a point where too many people were losing their quality of life - which made me question what’s going on,” says Lawson who heads Ceratec Health which is bringing a new AI-driven diabetes screening tool to market.