FRIEBELAB
Prof. Michael Friebe, PhD
ABOUT ME
I have always been interested in new technological and managerial challenges. In the last 25 years I have been involved in diagnostic imaging and image guided therapeutic products and services as well as other related Medical Technology ventures, as founder / innovator / CEO and investor.
I previously was the Founder and CEO of Tomovation + Alliance Medical Northern and Central Europe (Alliance bought Tomovation in 2008 - both radiology services companies) and prior to that of NEUROMED AG (acquired by UMS AG in 2001).
Currently I am a Board Member of three startup MedTec R&D companies, a shareholder of over 15 startups (see www.friih.de), as well as the founder and CEO of a medical technology startup-fund (see www.5p-futurehealth.com).
I also was a board member of three publicly traded medical technology companies in the US and was a non-executive board member of Eckert&Ziegler BEBIG AG from Senefe, Belgium.
Since 1994 I have authored more than 100 patent applications, and written over 400 conference and journal papers. I am a member of IEEE, SPIE, ISMRM, RSNA, and ECR.
From 2014 -2019 I was an endowed Professor for Image Guided Therapies / Catheter Technologies at the Medical Engineering Institute of the Otto-von-Guericke University (OVGU) in Magdeburg, Germany. In dec. 2019 I was awarded a honorary professorship at the OVGU Faculty of Medicine.
Since 2018 I am an Adjunct Professor of the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia working with the group of Prof. Dietmar Hutmacher.
Since 2022 I am happy to be the founding director of the Center of Innovation, Business Development & Entrepreneurship (CIBE) at the FOM University of Applied Science in Essen, Germany (www.fom-cibe.de) and also a Research Professor at the AGH University of Krakow, the top polish technology university (http://healthtech-innovation.agh.edu.pl).
COMPETENCIES
Innovation Generation and Entrepreneurship Lectures and Seminars
Public Speaking on Entrepreneurship, Future Healthcare Issues, Exponential Technologies, Reverse Innovation for MedTec Products
- IP strategy and patent evaluation
- Medical Technology Evaluation and Valuation
- International Sales and Marketing for Image Guided Therapy and Diagnostic Imaging products and services
- Support of Startup-Companies
- Financing and coaching of Start-Up companies
- Regulatory Issues and Certification / MDR / Clinical Studies / PMA / 510k / ISO
- Medical Technology (Image Guided Surgeries, Diagnostic Imaging, Therapy Devices, Healthcare Service Concepts) Innovation Generation
- Digital Transformation especially Healthcare focused
- ExO Consultant, ExO Trainer, ExO Ambassador (Exponential Organisations)
- SCALING UP Consultant (Gazelles / Growth Institute)
- DESIGN SPRINT by Jake Knapp Consultant
- Lean SIX SIGMA Green and Black Belt (go4sixsigma.com), SCRUM Master
- PURPOSE LAUNCHPAD Master Mentor
Short CV
- Since Sept. 2022, Director of the FOM University of Applied Sciences Center for Innovation, Business Development & Entrepreneurship
- Since Nov. 2021, ResearchProfessor at AGH, Krakow, Poland - Biomedical Engineering Innovation
- Since Dec. 2019 -- Honorary Professor Faculty of Medicine Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Chair of the HealthTEC INNOLAB at the University Hospital
- 2016 - 2018 -- Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE EMBS, Senior Member IEEE
- Dec. 2014 - Dec. 2019 -- Professor of Catheter Technologies and Image Guided Therapies, OVGU, Magdeburg, Germany (www.inka-md.de)
- Since 2010 -- Founder and CEO of IDTM GmbH, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany (www.idtmt.de)
- Since 2010 -- Venture Partner of two Medical Technology Startup-Funds, currently invested in 12 companies (www.friih.de - www.fvw-investments.com)
- 2003 - 2011 -- CEO and Founder of TOMOVATION GmbH, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany
- 1993 - 2003 -- CEO and Founder of NEUROMED AG, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany
- 1988 - 2003 -- Development Engineer and Product Manager DIASONICS Inc. / TOSHIBA Medical Systems Inc., South San Francisco, USA
- 1985 - 1988 -- Student Fellow at the IBM Research Laboratories, Böblingen, Germany
- 1984 - 1985 -- Military Service, 1. ABC Abw. Btl. 750
AWARDS
- Business Angel of the year 2012 - Germany
- Several Best Teaching Awards
- Innovation Award Siemens Healthineers IRL
- Hugo Junkers Price 2017 + 2018