Health Future Challenge 2023

Dr Ivy ZHAO, Member of the Research Institute for Smart Ageing (RISA), was awarded the 1st Runner Up in the Health Future Challenge 2023 organised by the Knowledge Transfer and Entrepreneurship Office and received Translational Research Grant from the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences for her start-up project “A web-based game-like dual-task hearing-cognitive training system”. The project aims to develop a web-based, game-like, dual-task hearing-cognitive training system for older adults with hearing loss to enhance their hearing efficiency, cognitive functions and social engagement.

Prof Zheng Yong Ping, Director of RISA, was also awarded the 1st Runner Up with project "ProRuka — Novel prosthetic hand controlled by wireless wearable ultrasound sensing". The project aims to develop a cutting-edge, lightweight, and affordable prosthetic hand with a novel and precise controlling system.

Health Future Challenge is a start-up ideation competition for students, researchers, alumni and industrialists to team up and come up with health-tech ideas and business models.