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Research Projects

Ongoing and past research initiatives driving sustainable medical innovation

Running Projects

D4SMD - Design for Sustainable Medical Devices project

D4SMD - Design for Sustainable Medical Devices

Regulatory Requirements & Methodological IntegrationEnvironmental Level

Integrating sustainable and circular design practices into the medical device sector while meeting strict safety and regulatory requirements.

Past Projects

Open Access Breast Couch for prone radiotherapy

Bias-Aware Medical Device Design

Bias Aware DesignRegulatory Requirements & Methodological Integration

This thesis project, in collaboration with Equal Care, investigates how discriminatory biases manifest in the design of physical medical devices and proposes methods to mitigate them

Open Access Breast Couch for prone radiotherapy

Open Access Breast Couch

Inclusive DesignRegulatory Requirements & Methodological Integration

Winner of the Henry van de Velde Award 25 for Business Innovation and the public's choice award - a platform that reduces side effect of radiotherapy for breast cancer

MAKERHEALTH project - open user innovation in healthcare

MAKERHEALTH

Inclusive DesignCo-Creation & Living Lab EnvironmentsLow-, High- & Emerging Technologies

Facilitating open user innovation and peer-to-peer creation in healthcare through living lab environments.

SustaMED Lab

Part of Ghent University design.nexus, dedicated to sustainable medical innovation.

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