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We’ve received a significant donation from Winston Wong and we are creating what we are
going to call the Winston Wong Centre for Bio Inspired Technology. This is a major,
major innovation today to the technology. As you see we are having huge global issues
in health care, climate change, environment, and energy.
And what we are trying to do is to say, rather than just look at evolutionary changes in
engineering, which haven’t seemed to work very well, we’re really now going for big
disruptive changes, by saying, look, biology…biology should come to the rescue. Billions of years
of biology and evolution have given us tricks that enable us to create technologies, to
for example, replace biology in applications that require it. For example, you might have
seen earlier on, the artificial pancreas. There’s a very, very significant application
of a bio inspired piece of technology. We are taking the pancreas, we are replicating
it out of the semi-conductor and we are using it to replace the biology that it’s replicated.
This is what I truly call personalized health care because we are applying both a diagnostic
and a therapy at the same point. So it’s this whole idea of using technology and its
inspiration to do things such as helping people that are sick to get better, unhealthy people
healthier and even healthier people even more healthier. So from early detection, right
through to therapy and really that’s what the whole institute will be about and this
will have a significant global ramification on the way we do health care today.