Annual Lecture 30 July 2025
The KCLEA Spring event is a Prestige Lecture for KCLEA members and a wider community
– showing the Role of Kings Engineering and its Alumni in making a better world.
"Entrepreneurship in MedTech"
The 2025 KCLEA Public Lecture is to be given by Nitya Dintakurti Co founder of Ru Medical who have products of innovative medical technology for the menopause and featured on BBC Television's Dragons Den.
She will describe the journey from the company being founded in 2022 to their first product, Coolzen – a smart, wearable device for menopausal women suffering from Hot Flushes.
It works by automatically reacting to the onset of a hot flush and leverages a natural physiological response in the human body to bring relief….. and its accompanying Unpause App which is designed to help women manage their menopausal symptoms and gain a better understanding of their bodies.
Nitya will go on to describe the UnPause loop - their second product to be launched in May
We will be welcomed to LIHE by Prashant Jha Professor of MedTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Head of Affordable Medical Technologies at King's, who will outline the work in Medtech Innovation by KCL and the formation of LIHE and its building , the promotion of Entrepreneurship in KCL and the development of the MSc MedTech Innovation Entrepreneurship course which brings together medicine, business, and engineering, all areas of excellence at King's.
This event is open to all interested in Entrepreneurship, Medtech, Engineering at Kings or Kings College London Alumni
and its free to attend - but to help us with numbers please register
Alumni will need you Alumni Number found in Alumni office emails - Others will register without the number
Wednesday 30th July 2025
6pm to 6:30pm Arrive and start meeting others over a Drink
6:30pm to 7pm Tours of LIHE meeting some of the companies it serves
7pm Welcome by Peter Weitzel President of KCLEA
7:10 pm Teaching 'how to invent' by Professor Prashant Jha BMEIS
7:25 pm Lecture by Nitya Dintakurti
8:10pm Networking and Refreshments on the 3rd Floor terrace overlooking Parliament
with displays by Ru Medical and companies based at LIHE
Event end 9pm
This Event was postponed from 3 April 2025
We meet at the London Institute of Healthcare Engineering - a building dedicated to bringing MedTech innovations to patients and the market, and to provide support and confidence to Entrepreneurs in MedTech so they can get their innovation from the computer / bench into daily use for by clinicians or at the patients' bedside.
If you want to find out more on how LIHE can help SMES and others in MedTech www.lihe.org.uk
Or how The Entrepreneurship Institute at King's College London is advancing and scaling innovations from King's students, staff, and alumni or the MSc MedTech Innovation Entrepreneurship
Before the Lecture we will learn about the work of LIHE and tour some of the amazing spaces as we network over an introductory drink.
After the lecture we have a opportunity to network and engage with the speakers over ample refreshments – and views across the Thames to Parliament..
We look forward to an audience from all areas of the Health or Engineering Industries or with Interest in the excellence of Kings College London.
LIHE is on Lambeth Palace Road halfway between Westminster Bridge and Lambeth Bridge on the South bank of the Thames.
(its where the building site is on the map or https://w3w.co/urgent.scan.mouse )
From Waterloo station (National Rail, Northern, Bakerloo and Jubilee lines) it is a short bus ride ( 77 or C10 ) to St Thomas in Lambeth Place Road and a 4 minute walk south or a 76 or 11 to Westminster Bridge County Hall and a 9 min walk, or just walk 16 minutes via York Road and Lambeth Palace Road.
From Victoria Station (National Rail, Victoria, District and Circle lines) it is a 15 min bus ride (C10) to St Thomas/Evelina with two minute walk each end or a 11 min Bus ride (11 or 148 ) to Westminster Bridge and a 9 minute walk. Or a half hour walk.
From Westminster Station (Jubilee, District and Circle line) line it is a 13-minute walk.
KCLEA inaugurated the concept of an Annual Lecture on Engineering topics after the faculty of Engineering was closed in 2013.
Various branches of Engineering were reinstated later, including Biomedical.
Details of previous KCLEA Annual Lectures can be found here.
We hope to record this year lecture - but we are lacking Committee members to organise this - if you want to help KCLEA contact us.