“Bridging Clinical Research and MedTech Innovation” is the title of Tobias Todsen's inaugural lecture where he talked about closing the gap between scientific discovery and the implementation of those solutions in everyday clinical work. Criticizing that few clinical research results actually get applied in patient care due to a descriptive rather than interventional focus in research and that many innovative MedTech solutions are often driven by technological possibilities instead of clinical demand. By applying his interdisciplinary background, Tobias Todsen hopes to encourage the continuation of research into clinical practice.
In his field, head and neck surgery, he is working to implement advanced imaging, robotics, and multimodal AI to improve diagnostics and treatment in cancer and infectious diseases.
Together with the 3D imaging center, he is developing a new AI-based platform to determine whether all cancer has been removed in the operating room during cancer surgery.
In his inaugural lecture, he presented how need driven clinical research can be applied in patient centered MedTech innovation, how technology development can strengthen clinical research and where the limitations of these new ideas lie. The lecture emphasized how interdisciplinary collaboration among clinicians, engineers, and entrepreneurs ensures that innovations are not only scientifically robust but practically applicable.
