On June 30, Forethought Medical and Nankai University jointly established the Nankai University-Forethought Artificial Muscle Assisted Medical Rehabilitation Joint Research and Development Center in Mengminwei Building of Nankai University. Li Wei, Deputy Director of the Scientific Research Department of Nankai University; Qi Yue, Deputy director of the Scientific Research Department of Nankai University; Zhang Wangqing, Director of the Institute of Polymer Chemistry of Nankai University; Liu Zunfeng, director of the Joint Research and Development Center of Artificial Muscle Assisted Medical Rehabilitation; Guan Yuanyuan, Marketing Center of China Resources Medical Business Group Medical Devices Co., LTD.; and He Dan, founder and CEO of Forethought Medical, attended the unveiling ceremony. Wang Wei, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Chemistry of Nankai University, presided over the ceremony.
First of all, Professor Li Wei spoke on behalf of Nankai University, he said that Nankai University to “know China and serve China” as a service concept, the establishment of Nankai University business platform, is to encourage the school’s professors and enterprises to cooperate.
At the unveiling ceremony, Liu Zunfeng, professor of the School of Chemistry of Nankai University and director of the Joint Research and development Center of Artificial muscle Assisted Medical rehabilitation, made a keynote report. Professor Liu Zunfeng is currently an expert in the field of artificial intelligence polymer materials and artificial muscle. As the director of the joint research and development Center of artificial muscle Assisted Medical rehabilitation, he will be mainly responsible for the joint research and development with Fusaut Medical in the future, and apply artificial muscle technology with intelligent hardware, Internet of things, artificial intelligence and other technologies to scoliosis rehabilitation treatment and rehabilitation exoskeleton equipment.
Mr. He, founder and CEO of Forethought Medical, also introduced the R&D and market results of Forethought to the guests present. Although Forethought Medical was established only two years ago, it has successfully built an integrated service chain covering education, screening, diagnosis and treatment, rehabilitation and monitoring, and constantly improves the details of the integrated service chain. Innovative and efficient solutions for the spine sector. From the B-end nationwide school screening, to the C-end family scene spinal monitoring, to the online expert consultation and meta-space rehabilitation management and intelligent rehabilitation support, Fusut has realized the seamless connection between the B-end and the C-end, the hospital and the family, providing a full range of spinal health management services for children and adolescents. In the future, with the establishment of the joint research and development center of artificial muscle assisted medical rehabilitation, the combination of artificial muscle and brace will be used to achieve the quantitative adjustment of correction force and correction degree through electronic control, on this basis, intelligent control can be further realized, and the standard correction treatment process can be specified.
It is believed that in the near future, the two sides will give full play to their respective advantages, carry out technical cooperation in various forms, jointly build an innovation system of industry-university-research alliance, establish a long-term cooperative relationship between industry, research and research, and establish an innovation platform jointly built by school and enterprise through Nankai University-Forethought Joint Research and Development Center for Artificial Muscle Assisted Medical Rehabilitation to jointly promote comprehensive technical cooperation between enterprises and schools in the field of artificial muscle. Create a good atmosphere for mutual promotion and common development of disciplines, industries and industries, and strive to achieve “school-enterprise cooperation, industry-university win-win”.
Forethought Medical is mainly committed to intelligent, portable innovative medical equipment research and development and production, the current is developed by its own research and development, with 28 national patents, the world’s first “three-dimensional digital spinal diagnosis and intelligent treatment system”, the system products include “non-radiation three-dimensional electronic spinal measuring instrument”, “intelligent correction braces” and so on. The joint research and development center of Artificial muscle Assisted medical rehabilitation was built with Nankai University. Forethought and Nankai University will rely on the joint research Center to carry out more project cooperation in the fields of artificial muscle assisted medical rehabilitation equipment, such as scoliosis, children’s sitting posture correction, correction helmet, etc., and promote the industrial application of artificial muscle in the field of assisted medical rehabilitation equipment. The scientific research results will be transformed into productive forces as soon as possible, and the industrialization capacity of basic scientific research of advanced fiber materials will be continuously improved.
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