Medpark-Based XinQing Medical Wins 2024 iF Design Award—Extracorporeal Magnetically Levitated Heart MoyoAssist® Recognized as 'Oscar of Design'

Recently, the 2024 winners of the German iF Design Award (iF DESIGN AWARD), known as the "Oscar" of the design world, were officially announced. MoyoAssist®, the extracorporeal magnetically levitated artificial heart developed by Medpark-based magAssist (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. in Suzhou New District, stood out among over 10,000 entries from 72 countries.

Winning the 2024 iF Design Award!

iF Design Award

The iF Design Award was established in 1953 and is organized annually by Hannover Industrial Design Forum, Germany's oldest industrial design institution. It has been internationally recognized as a prestigious award in the field of contemporary industrial design.

magAssist

magAssist's Extracorporeal Maglev Artificial Heart is an extracorporeal artificial heart product with complete independent intellectual property rights. It utilizes globally advanced computational fluid dynamics technology and full maglev technology, featuring IPX4 waterproof performance. It is suitable for complex environments such as outdoors, operating rooms, and emergency departments. Additionally, it has a detachable, multi-angle fixing structure that can adapt to complex ICU and ER environments, allowing medical staff to flexibly establish pipeline circuits. The full maglev impeller rotor offers high shock resistance and anti-torsional performance, meeting the needs of patient transfer, inter-hospital, and long-distance inter-provincial transportation.

magAssist founder Bo-Ling Xu introduced that the company, with the concept of "Technology Drives Life," insists on designing products based on clinical needs. The R&D team continuously discusses clinical requirements with doctors, integrating industrial design to simplify complexities. Through ingenious and practical designs, cutting-edge technology is presented to effectively address clinical pain points.

As early as 2018, magAssist collaborated with Cobalt, a top Australian industrial design studio. Numerous innovative designs have enabled magAssist's extracorporeal magnetically levitated artificial heart to address more complex clinical application scenarios, truly achieving design for practical use.

This extracorporeal magnetic levitation artificial heart has successively won multiple domestic and international design awards, including the Australian Designer Award, the Australian Good Design Award, and the Fortune China Best Design Award.

Currently, magAssist's extracorporeal magnetically levitated artificial heart has successfully completed clinical trials and been approved as an innovative medical device by the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), entering the "green channel" for market approval.

This is not the first time that a company in the High-Tech Zone has won the "Oscar" of the design world. In the past two years, the X-KIT Transformable Creative Robot Kit from Jiangsu Panxiao Technology Co., Ltd. and the Focusound™ Screen from Suzhou Qingting Acoustic Technology Co., Ltd. have also successively won this award.

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In recent years, the High-Tech Zone has continuously strengthened the construction and cultivation of research and development institutions such as industrial design centers and enterprise technology centers, encouraging enterprises to further tackle key core technologies. Currently, the zone has 2 national-level industrial design centers, 16 provincial-level industrial design centers and industrial design enterprises, and 46 municipal-level industrial design centers and industrial design enterprises.

Looking to the future, the High-Tech Zone will further encourage enterprises to increase investment in design innovation, making industrial design a key and effective means to enhance enterprises' independent innovation capabilities and promote industrial transformation and upgrading, driven by new quality productive forces.

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