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Innovation urged for cardiology

Industry experts and academicians called for better collaboration and exchange between medical practitioners and business owners to promote the innovation in the cardiovascular area.

Ge Junbo, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the chairman of Chinese Society of Cardiology, said currently most of high-end cardiovascular medical devices used in China are imported from foreign countries.

Ge is also the founder and chairman of the Center for Cardiovascular Innovations, an organization that is dedicated to encourage and promote the industrialization of local innovative products and technologies in the cardiovascular area.

"Clinical doctors' ideas seldom have chance to be turned into actual products or technologies because they have various kinds of barriers regarding applying for patent and carrying out clinical trials," he said in a keynote speech at the International Summit on Cardiovascular Innovation in Shanghai today.

The Center for Cardiovascular Innovations aims to help a younger generation of medical practitioners to transform their findings in their clinical experience into real commercial products by sharing resources with industry experts and technology companies from both home and abroad.

Han Yaling, president elect of Chinese Society of Cardiology, said innovation in the disease area would benefit both the industry development and at the same time serve clinical demand.

"China is pushing ahead with mass innovation and entrepreneurship under an innovation-fueled growth strategy and this means a prime time for medical practitioners has also arrived," Ge told an interview at the sidelines of the forum.




 

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