Past event
Lunch & Learn: Research to Innovation
You provide your lunch and the Entrepreneurship Centre will provide an inspiring and engaging series of online masterclasses exploring key topics for anyone interested in getting an idea out into the world.
Join us for this months' Lunch and Learn hosted by Dr Roger Flint. This session will focus on how to turn research into a tangible business opportunity.
Dr Roger Flint MBChB attended St Andrews 2003-2007 and read Marine and Environmental Biology. Currently, he is in the final year of NHS General Practice speciality training in Scotland. Prior to this, he was a Gliklich Healthcare Innovation Scholar at Mass. Eye and Ear, Boston, MA. Where he developed the spinout and commercialisation plan for a novel diagnostic medical device in the ocular space from Harvard, CUNY, UAX Spain and university of Colorado Anschutz, mentored and supported by Dr Richard Gliklich, CEO of OM1. This built upon his experience as a Harvard HealthTech Fellow (2022-23), with a primary appointment as an Associate at Harvard Medical School in the Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science (HiTS). The Fellowship uses the Biodesign process to identify pressing unmet clinical needs. During his fellowship, his team identified over 700 pressing unmet needs at Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary. Additionally, he undertook an externship at Baillie Gifford in their Health Innovation Fund, performing due-diligence on potential investments and research on the use of AI in healthcare.
In 2024, Dr Roger Flint founded SPOT, the Safer Prescription of Opioids Tool following a difficult experience when looking after a patient in pain at the end of their life when working as a junior doctor. SPOT is software as a service, software as a medical device. SPOT reduced unwarranted prescriber variation when prescribers prescribed opioids for patients at the end of their lives. SPOT served a patient population >110,000 and was awarded a national prize, the 2022 Dundas Medal, by the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, for efforts to improve the provision of palliative care for patients in hospital.
In this session Roger will cover:
Identifying problems and unmet needs
First hand experience of empathising with users
The spinout and commercialisation process
Becoming a “Founder”
Transforming research into innovation
The session will run for around 45 minutes with time for discussion and Q & A.
This is an online session therefore, please RSVP to confirm your attendance and to receive the MS Teams link to join.