PhD Student Praised For Enterprise March 21
The inventor of a respiratory device that helps patients with severe breathing difficulties has been praised for his enterprise.
Mario Iobbi, a bioengineering PhD student from Imperial College, London, won a £40,000 ERA Foundation Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering for his Saturation Driven Oxygen Therapy (SDOT) device.
It is currently being trialled at the Royal Brompton Hospital, and will aid sufferers of breathing conditions including emphysema and cystic fibrosis.
“This is an excellent example of applying engineering research to business in order to produce a product which could revolutionise patient care,” commented Professor Dame Julia Higgins, principal of the faculty of engineering at Imperial College.
Mr Iobbi, meanwhile, described the award as an “honour”.
“The experience of bringing together engineering innovation and clinical demands and working directly with medics and patients to improve the standard of care has been tremendously rewarding,” he added.
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