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The Opportunity
Among the areas where recent scientific discoveries promise valuable advances for patients, healthcare providers and life science companies alike are:
Diagnostic & therapeutic imaging
The application of advanced cellular and molecular imaging techniques will revolutionize drug discovery & evaluation, diagnostics, and therapies (e.g. using MRI and ultrasound and advancing instrumentation including robotics to provide precise placement of probes and destructive energy to destroy or shrink malignant tumours)
Drug delivery
New technologies for delivering drugs in a highly targeted, efficient fashion will establish new standards of clinical efficacy, efficiency and patient care.
Regenerative medicine
Technologies for wound healing and tissue correction have huge economic potential for the medical device and allied biotechnology industries
Minimally invasive surgical techniques
Emerging technologies such as Minimal Access Surgery, XNOTES, ultrasound imaging, radio-frequency devices, cryogenics and lasers are driving the potential for new state-of-the-art equipment