Read the report: Health Zone Report – March 2020 [PDF]

The Health Zone was a themed zone supported by SFI. It featured six engineers:

• Tom Hodgkinson is researching new ways to help bone and cartilage heal itself after injury or in old age using stem cells.
• Sanjeev Kumar is designing a compact on-body device that can be used for patients’ wireless health monitoring in hospitals.
• Orla McGee is designing devices to help children who have problems with their heart.
• Fiona Malone, winner of the Health Zone, makes bio simulators for medical research and medical design testing.
• Eimear O’Hara uses 3D printing to make new shoulder bones for people when their bones don’t work as well.
• Cillian Thompson is researching how to 3D print a biodegradable screw that heals broken bones.