Computational psychiatry has the tools to start unbundling psychiatry’s umbrella diagnoses, but its models still need rigorous, patient-facing trials before they reach the clinic.
NeuroRestore’s success comes from fusing academia, hospital care and industry into one translational pipeline for spinal cord injury – a template other neurotech labs would do well to study.
As I found this year, successful Australian medtech startups follow three key pillars: being science-first, hiring interdisciplinary staff and and carefully balancing product breadth with depth.