PD+H: Health apps and big data – commercial opportunities

This event was held on Friday 1 December 2023

In this workshop we will review and discuss health apps and the opportunities and risks associated with working with large amounts of data in health-tech.

Specific topics include:

  • Why would you build a health app?
  • Working with health data
  • Protecting data in the health-tech environment

Who should attend

  • PhD students
  • Postdoctoral researchers
  • Early and mid-career researchers
  • Industry-engaged academics
  • Industry-engaged professional staff

What you'll experience

PD+ is a free weekly webinar series that takes place every Friday from 12-1PM. It is the perfect way to lunch and level up your industry engagement and commercialisation skills.

Meet your presenter: Elane Zelcer

Elane is a leader in the healthtech (biotech, medtech, digital health) sector. She has more than 25 years’ experience as an advisor to start-up and early stage companies, university & MRI spin-outs and research teams, with guidance for capital raising and commercialisation including risk management and governance. Her career spans director, scientific advisory board, executive management, management consulting, start-up founder and research roles, almost exclusively focused on healthtech. Elane is Deputy Chair of BioMelbourne Network, Director with AllergyPal, Director of her own company, BioConsult and a member of the scientific advisory board of AUSiMED (Australia Israel Medical Research).

PD+ streams: Commercialisation of Research

Register here

Event is free but registration is essential.

The PD+ webinar series is brought to you by the University of Newcastle's Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise (KEE) and Campus Plus.  Find out about upcoming PD+ webinars and catch up on recordings of previous PD+ webinars at the Research Advantage Knowledge Hub.


What is KEE?

The University of Newcastle's Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise (KEE) is responsible for facilitating impact within our regions through intellectual property commercialisation, business development, and entrepreneurship. KEE works with researchers and industry to identify and facilitate high-value licenses and research collaborations, in addition to supporting pre-startups, startups, and scale-up companies.