Simon Cook Email & Phone Number

Australia

Eudaemon Technologies ('Eu' meaning good and 'daemon' meaning spirit) is a start-up building next generation medical devices utilising novel material science, user driven design, and advanced manufacturing. Our first product innovation, aka ‘Project Geldom’, is bringing Industry 4.0 to the condom industry, a growing $11B business producing 27B condoms annually. Eudaemon is replacing legacy latex with tough hydrogels to create better feeling, safer and more-cost effective condoms in order to… Show more Eudaemon Technologies ('Eu' meaning good and 'daemon' meaning spirit) is a start-up building next generation medical devices utilising novel material science, user driven design, and advanced manufacturing. Our first product innovation, aka ‘Project Geldom’, is bringing Industry 4.0 to the condom industry, a growing $11B business producing 27B condoms annually. Eudaemon is replacing legacy latex with tough hydrogels to create better feeling, safer and more-cost effective condoms in order to revolutionize safe sex, reduce STIs and promote family planning globally. Our technology has the potential to impact billions of users and alleviate the estimated $60B global burden from ineffective condom use. We have demonstrated the potential to make better feeling more attractive condoms that can be manufactured to international safety standards, securing support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, two Universities, the NSW Medical Device Fund, Victorian Medical Research Acceleration Fund and have secured a host of industry partners along the supply chain. Eudaemon is readying the technology for clinical trials as well as positioning stakeholders, collaborators, and investors for scalable condom manufacturing and market clearance. Show less

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Universal access to reproductive and sexual health is one of the great challenges and human rights issues of the 21st century.The lack of condom use, partially due to stigmas around a decrease in sensation, affects the health and well-being of many people in developing countries today. We received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to realise a Next Generation Condom made of new tough hydrogel materials, in order to improve feeling and increase regular use.The… Show more Universal access to reproductive and sexual health is one of the great challenges and human rights issues of the 21st century.The lack of condom use, partially due to stigmas around a decrease in sensation, affects the health and well-being of many people in developing countries today. We received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to realise a Next Generation Condom made of new tough hydrogel materials, in order to improve feeling and increase regular use.The challenge of moving from having to wear a condom to wanting to use one goes well beyond materials development. Our project has expanded to include engagement with key communities to identify barriers to condom acceptance and to collaboratively design novel solutions. Show less

Melbourne, Australia

DDD80015-Integrative Capstone Studio 1This unit involves a capstone project executed to an industry standard. This self-directed, human-centred project is the summation of the Masters course, demonstrating research-driven design across two units. The integrative project will address critical societal issues, enabling students to respond to an emerging, current or prospective challenge with an appropriate design brief and project plan. Student's apply fundamental research skills with… Show more DDD80015-Integrative Capstone Studio 1This unit involves a capstone project executed to an industry standard. This self-directed, human-centred project is the summation of the Masters course, demonstrating research-driven design across two units. The integrative project will address critical societal issues, enabling students to respond to an emerging, current or prospective challenge with an appropriate design brief and project plan. Student's apply fundamental research skills with relevant design theory and practice, and undertake a conceptual exploration to develop a project outcome reflecting their research and creative investigation.I led Students who successfully complete this unit to able to:1. Investigate current trends and identify problems through stakeholder consultation and the review of literature and artefacts to successfully apply this knowledge to an integrative design project.2. Demonstrate participatory design principles and techniques to understand the relationship between design research and its effects on the wider community.3. Produce a self-directed design brief and project plan that outlines strategies for solving a well-defined problem.4. Synthesise design possibilities into a single, environmentally aware proposition.5. Critically evaluate a proposition through real-world testing and conclude with recommendations for further development.6. Evaluate the investigative process and outcomes through concise, coherent and well-structured documentation, design outcomes and presentations. Show less

Bloomington, Indiana

Visiting Fulbright Future Scholar

Bloomington, Indiana

Fulbright Future Scholar

Australia

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations Round 12 “The Next Generation Condom that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use - Investigating new tough hydrogels materials to replace latex”Biological validation of hydrogel materials, phi-X174 bacteriophage barrier studies, small molecule permeation studies, bacterial barrier assays, controlled drug loading and release experiments, high-performance liquid… Show more Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations Round 12 “The Next Generation Condom that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use - Investigating new tough hydrogels materials to replace latex”Biological validation of hydrogel materials, phi-X174 bacteriophage barrier studies, small molecule permeation studies, bacterial barrier assays, controlled drug loading and release experiments, high-performance liquid chromatography, determination of material pore size, development and characterisation of hydrogel material production, development and casting of prototype condoms, honours student supervision, patent and manuscript preparation, data analysis, experimental design and development, media relations. Show less

Project: The role of plasminogen activation system components in tumour invasion and metastasis. Tasks: Honours student supervision, preparation of pancreatic tumour and relevant cell line whole cell lysates, protein determination, SDS-PAGE, ECL western blotting, primary and secondary antibody optimisation, data analysis, recombinant protein purification, FPLC, general lab maintenance, data analysis.

Project: Analysing the effect of microemulsions on bacterial biofilm killing. Tasks: Media preparation and culture growth of fastidious bacterial pathogens, planktonic cell and biofilm challenges with a range of fatty acid containing microemulsions to determine MIC/MBC, plating experiments, compound preparation.

“Characterising the role of streptokinase polymorphism in the pathogenesis of Streptococcus pyogenes”

Project: The role of plasminogen activation system components in tumour invasion and metastasis. Tasks: Preparation of pancreatic tumour whole cell lysates, protein determination, SDS-PAGE, ECL western blotting, primary and secondary antibody optimisation, data analysis.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Biochemistry And Molecular Biology

“Characterising the role of streptokinase polymorphism in the pathogenesis of Streptococcus pyogenes”

Bachelor Of Biotechnology (Hons)