Seer Medical’s Dr Pip Karoly wins PM’s innovation prize for life-changing epilepsy seizure forecasting app

A founding member of Australian medtech Seer Medical has received national recognition for her breakthrough scientific discoveries, winning one of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Prizes for New Innovators earlier this week.

Seer Medical data scientist and senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne Dr Pip Karoly was recognised for her work which has established new methods for forecasting epileptic seizure risk. She discovered that seizures do not occur randomly, but over long-term cycles that are unique to the individual, while completing her PhD.

As one of its first employees and a founding member of Seer Medical, Karoly led the development of a life-changing mobile app for people living with epilepsy, enabling world-first seizure risk forecasting with a mobile app.

Since its launch in 2017 by co-founders Dr Dean Freestone, Professor Mark Cook and George Kenley, Seer Medical has reimagined how and where people undergo long-term brain and heart monitoring to make diagnosing and forecasting seizure episodes faster and more accurate.

Seer has raised more than $80 million in capital to date from investors including Mayo Clinic, Cochlear, Breakthrough Victoria, EWM Group, SG Hiscock and Giant Leap.

Seer’s solutions include an at-home epilepsy monitoring system and wearable medical devices, mobile apps for tracking and...