Morning tea with IHealthE

Translating innovative healthcare ideas presents a range of challenges—from navigating regulatory requirements and clinical implementation to understanding complex payment models. No innovator can tackle these alone, making it essential to collaborate with others who bring complementary skillsets to the table.

This morning tea event brought together key members of the UNSW entrepreneurial ecosystem to explore how innovators can identify the expertise needed and build multidisciplinary teams that support successful healthcare innovation. The session offered valuable insights into team-building strategies and highlighted the importance of collaboration in turning ideas into viable solutions.

Dina is Investment & Scale Up Program Manager at UNSW Founders, where she launched and then scaled nationally Health 10x Startup Accelerator Program, supporting growth of over 100 health startups and overseeing investments into 21 of them. Prior to this role, Dina held various business development positions in HealthTech companies (including startups) across Australia, Sweden and Russia. Biomedical engineer by training, she then obtained Master in Bioentrepreneurship from Karolinska Institute in Sweden and currently doing MBA at AGSM.

Lamont is a neuroscientist (Stanford BS, Brandeis Ph.D. Neuroscience) and Director of Industry Projects, and Entrepreneur-In-Residence, AGSM. Inspired by his children, Lamont founded Oyalabs to create Wunder - a science based AI and hardware platform for caregivers to be able to monitor their child's learning environment and to clinically improve learning outcomes. Lamont has worked in industry with Fortune 500 companies (Roche), startups (Deltagen, Gogograd, ChronoCloud) and in academia as a lecturer and researcher (University of California San Francisco, Brandeis University, Stanford University). Lamont is also a member of Stanford StartX, an accelerator that selects for top Stanford entrepreneurs.

Ian has a background in scientific research, developing nano-materials for biosensing applications and subsequently spent 4 years in a commercially focused-role as a strategy consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in Southeast Asia. Ian co-founded a health technology startup focused on building digital tools for healthcare research projects, prior to joining Tyree IHealthE. His work included leading the development and implementation of technology platforms for the South Asia Biobank (South Asia and UK) and the SG100K population health study in Singapore. Ian holds a BEng (Chemical) and Ph.D from UNSW and obtained an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge as a Chevening scholar.