good evening thank you very much for the
invitation I really enjoy this evening
already and yes how do I make the link
between my profession and the theme of
this event in fact I have chosen the
title can’t wait for it
subtitle what a difference the tie makes
and I brought a little bit of a surprise
with me my little treasure box and I
will talk more about that in a few
minutes so far I put it here that’s why
I needed to chair otherwise we tried it
that I put it there but it was not so
comfortable yeah so I would like to zoom
in into the seam and opening this
treasure box by talking first about a
topic which I believe everybody in this
room can resonate with waiting time so I
can tell you it makes me crazy and I
can’t find anything positive about
waiting time I thought a lot about that
I can’t find anything about it and now
due to my profession especially when we
talk about waiting time in a metal
medical setting which we could speak
about cervical cancer we caught to talk
about hospital in fired in hospital
acquired infections but at the end of
the day I thought I’ll talk to you today
about what I’m on in the moment and it’s
about clinical Diagnostics and the theme
is that the waiting time for results of
clinical Diagnostics have a negative
effect on the quality of your life and
the length of your life so I assume as
you are all sitting here tonight that
you’re in good health but you all know
as well that tomorrow that might change
and I would like to give you an example
to better understand what
I’m talking about and I have chosen the
topic of fever and I’m very passionate
about that as well because I was as well
affected by it as a mother of two
children and when there were tiny kids I
assume that many of you can can and be
with me on you wake up in the morning
and you have a kid which is not good at
all and has high fever so coming back to
the theme of quality of life not good
for the kids but as well not good for me
as a mother probably cannot go to work
can I don’t feel comfortable that my
child doesn’t feel well so at the end
what do I do after a while decide the
fever is at 40 degrees I have to see the
doctor what is happening in a general
practitioner even if you decide you go
during the weekend maybe in an emergency
room of a hospital what is happening in
this situation the physician is doing an
physical exam and with child with high
fever the likelihood that this is an
infection is very high so good practice
is that the physician is proposing to
draw blood which is already not so much
fun especially not with a child and what
they tell you is let’s wait for the
blood test results go home and call
tomorrow and then we will see what we do
and how we treat the child and by the
way I do not criticize this not at all
that is good practice if there is no
life-threatening situation it’s good
practice to wait for those test results
but at the end of the day I don’t feel
good about it I thought you might be
interested to know what is happening
with a blood and I took the example here
from Belgium and there are a few other
countries in the world where this is
happening exactly the same so the blood
was drawn somebody comes into the
to the office of your doctor and picks
it up brings it to a central laboratory
and as soon as the blood arrives in that
laboratory it is put into a big rack as
you can see with many many other tests
the information about the patient are
tracked into an information system and I
think in the meantime very good measures
are taken place that the blood and the
name of your kids are really well
connected so that there is no wrong
result coming because the sample was
intermixed in fact that happened in the
past years when I started my career that
happened this is very very safe now
these days and the efficiency of these
laboratories is tremendous and therefore
I have chosen as well to show you how an
analyzer and how big laboratories look
like these days so the analyzer where
your blood blood the blood of our child
in this case is landing on could be one
example of these this instrument has the
size yeah of of everything here around
me from the chair to to to the screen so
high and as you can see in the picture
below there are laboratories in the
world which are so large they look like
fabrics this is if I’m not wrong the big
one of the biggest laboratories in the
world in Brazil where thousands and
thousands of tests per day are done and
when you centralize these tests this is
really great and I spent most of my time
on that to have the efficiency within
the laboratory to bring the time down
time per test down to minutes even but
the issue is still that you have to
transport the specimen and as large as
the labs are the distance to the patient
is becoming even larger so this is still
the problem we have and this is what
made me as well very passion to think
about okay we worked it out the
laboratory is super efficient how can we
and sure that people like our physician
in our child situation can have the
results within minutes now as I said
before I’m now back with my child at
home while my the blood of our child is
in the lab everything is doing well we
are sitting at home and I don’t feel
good at all because this is an image of
a virus but it could be as well bacteria
which are now in the body of my hit and
not doing well so at the end of the day
due to the fact that we have to wait
very unlikely that the child will feel
better so the evening and especially the
night at least I had that experience
very bad quality of life and
unfortunately in very rare cases but it
happens unfortunately there is as well a
risk that the kid could die during the
night there are bacteria they act very
fast and it’s not always that you can
predict that this organism is in Europe
in your child
so therefore this implication as as a
microbiologist you can imagine that I
have not spent any minute to sleep
during those nights so coming to the
solution and during the introduction you
heard already that our since February
I’m living here in Luverne working here
in Belgium and this is because I met
great people and they suggested that
they have great solutions at their hands
and I wanted to give you credit to a few
of them and they only represent a
minimum amount of people there’s so many
more which should be here on this page
on the top left you see look funding
over the CEO of emic and to the right
Peter of payments vp life science as
well at emic for the ones who don’t know
image you can be really proud on that it
is a world recognized research
organization in the area of
semiconductor nano electronics the world
visits Leuven because of image
and this gentleman had the idea to
leverage this technology which you have
here today with you in your mobile
phones in the laptops in your washing
machine the self-driving cars all of
that is in the future coming and Bob
Bollinger is the professor at the
University of Johns Hopkins in Baltimore
and he’s a at the medical schools so the
gentleman from Louisville realized very
soon if we’d want to work with this
great idea we cannot work without
medical knowledge so they brought these
ideas together these skills and
capabilities together and have developed
a very very powerful concept this
concept convinced gentleman from Belgium
macoco
Michele a Commons and rural poor a on
the bottom line to invest enough money
to create a company which I’m leading
since February the idea is now to bring
the research work to the market and
everything is based on nanotechnology
it’s tiny tiny volumes and measures and
probably it’s now time to open my little
treasure box and so what you can see
here is the heart of all you may
remember the machine I showed you before
that machine can process thousands of
samples this can process one sample but
it’s not such a machine so you can do it
anywhere at any time where you need it
so that makes here the big difference
and it’s not about eliminating this big
laboratory machines not at all they are
very important you don’t need always
fast results but for the example which
we just talked about that ship will make
it make a difference
it will be embedded in plastic there
will be as well some stuff around it but
this will be the heart of it and for the
people who can’t see that because I’m
too far away from you I brought us well
here a picture of an example which looks
a little bit different we are working on
several chips and so this will make the
big difference because it can be done at
the site it again enables the results
it’s a point of need while you’re while
it is a child and yourself sitting in
front of the physician the test is
running automatically you don’t need to
be trained and the result appears on the
laptop on the mobile phone wherever you
want and what happens the physician can
do with the real-time blood results a
very informed health decision so knowing
most likely because of the results of
these tests my child has a bacterial
infection or viral infection and the
treatment is very different and that
will be then extremely effective I feel
better
I trust much more that the treatment is
right and hopefully and that is very
likely the child will feel very soon
much better and therefore I hope that I
was able to convince you why I have
chosen this title that I can’t wait for
it to have it on market it takes a few
more years but I’m so excited that I
have the chance to be part of this team
thank you very much [Applause]
invitation I really enjoy this evening
already and yes how do I make the link
between my profession and the theme of
this event in fact I have chosen the
title can’t wait for it
subtitle what a difference the tie makes
and I brought a little bit of a surprise
with me my little treasure box and I
will talk more about that in a few
minutes so far I put it here that’s why
I needed to chair otherwise we tried it
that I put it there but it was not so
comfortable yeah so I would like to zoom
in into the seam and opening this
treasure box by talking first about a
topic which I believe everybody in this
room can resonate with waiting time so I
can tell you it makes me crazy and I
can’t find anything positive about
waiting time I thought a lot about that
I can’t find anything about it and now
due to my profession especially when we
talk about waiting time in a metal
medical setting which we could speak
about cervical cancer we caught to talk
about hospital in fired in hospital
acquired infections but at the end of
the day I thought I’ll talk to you today
about what I’m on in the moment and it’s
about clinical Diagnostics and the theme
is that the waiting time for results of
clinical Diagnostics have a negative
effect on the quality of your life and
the length of your life so I assume as
you are all sitting here tonight that
you’re in good health but you all know
as well that tomorrow that might change
and I would like to give you an example
to better understand what
I’m talking about and I have chosen the
topic of fever and I’m very passionate
about that as well because I was as well
affected by it as a mother of two
children and when there were tiny kids I
assume that many of you can can and be
with me on you wake up in the morning
and you have a kid which is not good at
all and has high fever so coming back to
the theme of quality of life not good
for the kids but as well not good for me
as a mother probably cannot go to work
can I don’t feel comfortable that my
child doesn’t feel well so at the end
what do I do after a while decide the
fever is at 40 degrees I have to see the
doctor what is happening in a general
practitioner even if you decide you go
during the weekend maybe in an emergency
room of a hospital what is happening in
this situation the physician is doing an
physical exam and with child with high
fever the likelihood that this is an
infection is very high so good practice
is that the physician is proposing to
draw blood which is already not so much
fun especially not with a child and what
they tell you is let’s wait for the
blood test results go home and call
tomorrow and then we will see what we do
and how we treat the child and by the
way I do not criticize this not at all
that is good practice if there is no
life-threatening situation it’s good
practice to wait for those test results
but at the end of the day I don’t feel
good about it I thought you might be
interested to know what is happening
with a blood and I took the example here
from Belgium and there are a few other
countries in the world where this is
happening exactly the same so the blood
was drawn somebody comes into the
to the office of your doctor and picks
it up brings it to a central laboratory
and as soon as the blood arrives in that
laboratory it is put into a big rack as
you can see with many many other tests
the information about the patient are
tracked into an information system and I
think in the meantime very good measures
are taken place that the blood and the
name of your kids are really well
connected so that there is no wrong
result coming because the sample was
intermixed in fact that happened in the
past years when I started my career that
happened this is very very safe now
these days and the efficiency of these
laboratories is tremendous and therefore
I have chosen as well to show you how an
analyzer and how big laboratories look
like these days so the analyzer where
your blood blood the blood of our child
in this case is landing on could be one
example of these this instrument has the
size yeah of of everything here around
me from the chair to to to the screen so
high and as you can see in the picture
below there are laboratories in the
world which are so large they look like
fabrics this is if I’m not wrong the big
one of the biggest laboratories in the
world in Brazil where thousands and
thousands of tests per day are done and
when you centralize these tests this is
really great and I spent most of my time
on that to have the efficiency within
the laboratory to bring the time down
time per test down to minutes even but
the issue is still that you have to
transport the specimen and as large as
the labs are the distance to the patient
is becoming even larger so this is still
the problem we have and this is what
made me as well very passion to think
about okay we worked it out the
laboratory is super efficient how can we
and sure that people like our physician
in our child situation can have the
results within minutes now as I said
before I’m now back with my child at
home while my the blood of our child is
in the lab everything is doing well we
are sitting at home and I don’t feel
good at all because this is an image of
a virus but it could be as well bacteria
which are now in the body of my hit and
not doing well so at the end of the day
due to the fact that we have to wait
very unlikely that the child will feel
better so the evening and especially the
night at least I had that experience
very bad quality of life and
unfortunately in very rare cases but it
happens unfortunately there is as well a
risk that the kid could die during the
night there are bacteria they act very
fast and it’s not always that you can
predict that this organism is in Europe
in your child
so therefore this implication as as a
microbiologist you can imagine that I
have not spent any minute to sleep
during those nights so coming to the
solution and during the introduction you
heard already that our since February
I’m living here in Luverne working here
in Belgium and this is because I met
great people and they suggested that
they have great solutions at their hands
and I wanted to give you credit to a few
of them and they only represent a
minimum amount of people there’s so many
more which should be here on this page
on the top left you see look funding
over the CEO of emic and to the right
Peter of payments vp life science as
well at emic for the ones who don’t know
image you can be really proud on that it
is a world recognized research
organization in the area of
semiconductor nano electronics the world
visits Leuven because of image
and this gentleman had the idea to
leverage this technology which you have
here today with you in your mobile
phones in the laptops in your washing
machine the self-driving cars all of
that is in the future coming and Bob
Bollinger is the professor at the
University of Johns Hopkins in Baltimore
and he’s a at the medical schools so the
gentleman from Louisville realized very
soon if we’d want to work with this
great idea we cannot work without
medical knowledge so they brought these
ideas together these skills and
capabilities together and have developed
a very very powerful concept this
concept convinced gentleman from Belgium
macoco
Michele a Commons and rural poor a on
the bottom line to invest enough money
to create a company which I’m leading
since February the idea is now to bring
the research work to the market and
everything is based on nanotechnology
it’s tiny tiny volumes and measures and
probably it’s now time to open my little
treasure box and so what you can see
here is the heart of all you may
remember the machine I showed you before
that machine can process thousands of
samples this can process one sample but
it’s not such a machine so you can do it
anywhere at any time where you need it
so that makes here the big difference
and it’s not about eliminating this big
laboratory machines not at all they are
very important you don’t need always
fast results but for the example which
we just talked about that ship will make
it make a difference
it will be embedded in plastic there
will be as well some stuff around it but
this will be the heart of it and for the
people who can’t see that because I’m
too far away from you I brought us well
here a picture of an example which looks
a little bit different we are working on
several chips and so this will make the
big difference because it can be done at
the site it again enables the results
it’s a point of need while you’re while
it is a child and yourself sitting in
front of the physician the test is
running automatically you don’t need to
be trained and the result appears on the
laptop on the mobile phone wherever you
want and what happens the physician can
do with the real-time blood results a
very informed health decision so knowing
most likely because of the results of
these tests my child has a bacterial
infection or viral infection and the
treatment is very different and that
will be then extremely effective I feel
better
I trust much more that the treatment is
right and hopefully and that is very
likely the child will feel very soon
much better and therefore I hope that I
was able to convince you why I have
chosen this title that I can’t wait for
it to have it on market it takes a few
more years but I’m so excited that I
have the chance to be part of this team
thank you very much [Applause]
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