Mind-controlled prostheses require not only technical perfection, but also medical expertise. This is because the remaining nerves and muscles have to be connected in such a way that the signals can be used by the high-tech prosthesis. Award winner Oskar Aszmann has researched the basics of this together with company partner Ottobock.
“Our first prize winner illustrates the basic idea of the CDG perfectly. After all, mind-controlled prostheses require not only technical expertise - in this case from Ottobock - but also in-depth basic knowledge of how nerves and muscles work in detail - in other words, basic medical research. Oskar Aszmann has excellently fulfilled his role at the interface of outstanding basic research and business, a worthy first prize winner and representative of our funding model!”
Martin Gerzabek, President of the Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft
“Basic research is very important for an innovative company like Ottobock, because only knowledge of underlying biological mechanisms enables the development of new concepts and products, such as pattern recognition or Targeted Muscle Reinnervation (TMR) for arm prostheses. The CD Laboratory in particular is closely linked to Ottobock Vienna. It offers an ideal opportunity to pursue new approaches that would represent too high an economic risk without funding. I would like to thank the CDG, which has been making such an important contribution to science and innovation in Austria for 25 years. We are therefore all the more delighted that our long-standing partner at MedUni Vienna, Prof. Aszmann, has been awarded the CDG Award for Research and Innovation together with Ottobock!”
Andreas Goppelt, CTO and Managing Director of the Vienna branch of Ottobock
