Innovus E-News 37th Edition

Innovus E-News 37th Edition

SurgiTrack: Bringing Order to The Organisation of Medical Operations

SurgiTrack: Bringing Order to The Organisation of  Medical Operations                                                   Process management is key to cost-saving and efficiency in all businesses. In surgical practice, process management also saves more lives and prevents unnecessary post-operative complications.. Despite the large number of patients requiring life-altering and life-saving procedures (think knee replacements to heart valve repair), much of the organisation of medical operations is still done manually, and often on paper. Surgeons are required to schedule their own theatre times, with the help...
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News from our Spin-Out Companies: Stellenbosch Nanofiber Company (SNC) , BridgIot and Cargo Telematics

­­­News from our Spin-Out Companies: Stellenbosch Nanofiber Company (SNC) , BridgIot and Cargo Telematics New funding for SNC On 1 November 2017, the team at the Stellenbosch Nanofiber Company (SNC) celebrated SNC’s sixth birthday! If you haven’t already, please make sure you send them a card or a magnum bottle of wine.  It’s been quite the journey from their ‘garage days’, where founder Eugene Smit used a feta cheese tub to demonstrate his proof of concept to Innovus, to a company that’s quickly spinning its own web of possibilities in the medical space. At a quick glance, what SNC does is allow for...
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Innovus: Breaking New Ground, Breaking the Rules and Breaking the Mould

­­­Innovus: Breaking New Ground, Breaking the Rules and Breaking the Mould Every quarter, Innovus prepares a report for their stakeholders, letting them know exactly how capable the hands that run it are. This short piece will deliver some of the highlights of this year’s final report, and of 2017 to you, our reader. The meteoric rate of growth of our favourite Technology Transfer Office, Innovus has several important factors, the most important of which is the quality of faculty and students at the institution that Innovus represents. Quality people means better research; better research means a higher rate of disclosures; and the rate...
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A Professor, 5 Patents And An End To Alzheimer’s

A Professor, 5 Patents And An End To Alzheimer’s If you did a quick search on some of the most terrible non-infectious diseases – like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s or type 2 diabetes – you will find that, for the most part, the causes are listed as ‘experts are still unsure of why this occurs.’ That was until Prof Resia Pretorius of the Department of Physiological Sciences at Stellenbosch University  turned her attention to them. It turns out bacterial wall inflammagens may be that cause, or at least a major part of it. Prof Resia, alongside research partners and experts from Manchester to Madrid, has...
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A busy year for Commercial Services

­­­A busy year for Commercial Services ­­As the team with the mandate to manage all the University’s internal initiatives, it’s been a busy few months for Commercial Services (CS). They are, after all, SU’s 5th income stream. As well as implementing access control to, and a small (but very necessary) fee for entry to the Stellenbosch Botanical Gardens, a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) has been completed with Friends of the Garden, a volunteer group, who will now be assisting with fundraising. Discussions are underway to develop a viable solution for the usage of the HB Thom Theatre and the Conservatorium, with the intent of...
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