Junkosha, a specialist in fluoropolymer application technology across medical device and microwave interconnect sectors, has revealed the shortlist of five entries going through to the final stage of its inaugural ‘Technology Innovator of the Year Award’.
Each shortlisted candidate will present their entry to the judging committee throughout February, with the winner to be announced in a ceremony in March 2022.
Junkosha’s mission over the last 12 months has been to find an individual or team working within industry or academic research that deserves recognition for their innovative work on products used in the delivery of Interventional Medical procedures or Microwave and MilimetreWave technologies. Adjudicated by a panel of highly respected judges chosen for their industry credentials, the winning entrant will be awarded a sum of $25,000 to invest in their worthwhile project.
Joe Rowan, chairperson for this Award, and Junkosha’s president and CEO of USA and Europe, said: “The judges and I have been truly delighted by the high calibre of candidates who have entered our first Technology Innovator of the Year Awards. Some very hard decisions were made in coming up with the shortlist, but we believe that each of the five remaining entries have an equal opportunity to prevail. I would ultimately like to wish the candidates luck through the next phase and also take this opportunity to thank everyone who entered.”
The shortlisted candidates include:
Interventional Medical Procedures
Chris Hancock - CTO and founder, Creo Medical Group, UK
Creo Medical is a medical device company applying Advanced Energy to the emerging field of surgical endoscopy. The company’s product is the first Advanced Energy multimodality instrument designed for flexible endoscopy using combined bipolar RF and microwave energy for advanced endoscopic procedures.
Elad Einav – CEO and co-founder, Medibrane LTD, Israel
Medibrane is a contract manufacturer of polymeric covers for medical stent devices. The company provides covering materials and technologies such as: silicone, polyurethane, ePTFE and dacron polymeric covers, implemented using dipping, spraying or lamination technologies. Their product features unique suture-less lamination technologies.
Microwave and MilimetreWave Technologies
Otava Inc, US
Otava, Inc is a fabless start-up based in Moorestown, New Jersey, developing key 5G technologies in the MillimetreWave sector. Otava is focussed on the end-to-end development of exceptional technologies used by advanced 5G Commercial and Department of Defense applications. The company’s MillimetreWave integrated circuit is a 24-40GHz beamforming chip which is optimised to meet the accelerated performance demands of high-bandwidth 5G communications systems.
Stepan Lucyszyn, Imperial College London, UK
Over the past six years, Stepan and his academic research team have been designing, simulating, manufacturing, testing, and analysing novel 3D-printed microwave and MillimetreWave materials, components, and subsystems.
Umut Bulus, Antenom Antenna Technologies, Turkey
Antenom provides solutions around antenna design and RF systems. The company has created a new concept with block-based antenna and microwave component design methodologies which currently works up to 6GHz. It provides pedagogical application, with use in antenna and microwave training in university level electronics engineering laboratory lectures.
