NAKAMURA
MASAYA

Designed Medical Device Area Leader

Aiming for early realization of devices for personalized medicine that extend healthy life expectancy

We are creating tailor-made therapies through regenerative medicine, biomechanics, and imaging that we have never been able to do before. In particular, extending the healthy life expectancy is a pressing social problem, and there is a need to quickly make devices for various scenarios, including orthopedic surgery.

The Designed Medical Device area is characterized as having a sense of speed, and the area intends to set goals in the near future to produce concrete results in a few years.

For example, while it seems that the seeds are different in the areas of orthopedic surgery, dental surgery, plastic surgery, general gastrointestinal surgery, and cardiovascular surgery, we can make progress based on the same basic thinking, methodology, and concept. I think that my role is to coordinate areas in multiple directions through sharing information in each area, complementing each other’s weaknesses to let the institution grow stronger as an organization.

In the past research conducted by academia alone, it required time to link academic research to actual medical care. As a result, although the research itself is world-class, innovation often tends to fall behind the world standard. Academia and companies working together from the stage when the seeds have just sprouted can advance research and development with an eye on the final goal. In doing so, I believe that it is feasible to quickly achieve optimal results.