Quantum skills in Medtech
Speaker: Dr Euan Allen, Chief Technology Officer, Siloton
Chair: Professor Peter Turner, Sydney Quantum Academy
Founded in 2020, Siloton is a medical device start-up developing a personal eye scanner to prevent sight loss in the 1-in-4 over-60s suffering from macular degeneration.
For many on the Siloton team including CTO Euan Allen, a quantum background and training has proved instrumental to the R&D process.
In this recording, you’ll learn more about Siloton’s commercialisation journey, and discover how quantum skills and research can bring a unique perspective in the development of technology outside the quantum realm.
Timestamp
00:03 Acknowledgement of country & introduction by Peter Turner
03:10 Siloton introduction and background
04:38 Overview and Impact of Age-Related Macular Degeneration
06:47 Current diagnostic and monitoring tools and limitations
7:52 Siloton’s personal eye scanning system solution
09:29 Siloton team overview and background
10:43 Overview of how Siloton came to fruition
12:52 The Quantum overlap
15:49 Siloton’s progress
17:25 The eye as the body’s barometer of future health
19:51 Key takeaways
21:09 Q& A
21:08 Quantum fund info
22:12 What made you take the leap into entrepreneurship
23:55 What quantum can contribute to medtech
26:36 How to strengthen the academia/ industry interaction
28:19 Start up resources
30:35 Have you benefited from any UK government schemes?
32:07 What have been the challenges?
33:45 How can we learn about quantum computing when we don’t have a physical machine yet?
36:00 How did you come up with your tech idea?
37:27 Questions around technical capabilities
40:29 Question about Siloton patents
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