TecMedHub

Applied science · R&D and innovation

We solve problems with technology, from southern Chile.

We were born in the School of Medical Technology at Universidad Austral de Chile, Puerto Montt Campus, and health is still our home. Today we also take on challenges in aquaculture, education and heritage, with artificial intelligence, code and digital fabrication.

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TecMedHub mascot: a lilac gecko with round glasses and a pink T-shirt with the lab's name.

Big eyesartificial intelligence for all kinds of problems

Workshop hands3D printing, CNC and prototypes

Regenerating tailheritage, augmented reality and outreach

T-shirt onhealth sciences education

Feet in the southLos Lagos Region

Plate 1. Gekko tecmedhubensis, pink specimen. Puerto Montt, 2026

Entry no. 1: who we are

A lab of many species

TecMedHub is an applied science lab: we do research, development, innovation and science-based entrepreneurship (what Chile calls I+D+i+e), with people from many disciplines who share space, code, printers and questions.

Disciplines living together in the lab

  • Medical technology
  • Computer engineering
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Research methodology
  • Cell biology
  • Pathology
  • Aquaculture
  • Digital fabrication
  • Heritage and outreach

Our work is split into five lines, from artificial intelligence to archaeological heritage. Scroll down a little and our gecko will introduce them.

Mission

To solve real technological challenges and problems, in health, education, the territory and wherever needed, with tools that work, are shared and train the people who build them.

Vision

That nobody in southern Chile has to wait for technology to arrive from elsewhere.

Values

  • Open by defaultcode and publications under open licenses
  • Useful before flashyif it doesn't help someone, it doesn't leave the lab
  • From the south, for the southquestions from Los Lagos, answers made here
  • Diverse, as it should bedifference is our best tool

Entry no. 2: comparative anatomy

Let's take a spin around the lab

↕︎ scroll up and down to move it

Full specimen

One gecko, five lines of work

Each part of its body is a line of work. Let's spin it around to see them all.

1 of 5. Big eyes

Artificial intelligence and computer vision

We train models for all kinds of problems: detecting diabetic retinopathy, tracking eye movements, monitoring parasites on salmon or annotating thousands of images and sounds. Many run on a phone or in the browser, without sending data to the cloud.

  • DIRD+
  • SIEV-iris
  • SIEV-VNG
  • Annotix
  • OtoReport

Annotix, published in Computers (MDPI) in 2026.

2 of 5. Workshop hands

Fabrication and prototyping

3D printing, CNC control and parametric design to build custom devices, from splints to lab parts.

ScanEar, awarded in ANID VIU 2026.

3 of 5. Regenerating tail

Augmented reality and outreach

Like the gecko's tail, heritage regenerates: we digitize fauna, megafauna and archaeological pieces to give them back to the community.

Virtual experience of the Monte Verde collection, presented at its return to Puerto Montt in 2026.

4 of 5. Feet in the south

Territory: Los Lagos Region

We work on problems from the Los Lagos Region, from salmon farming health to archaeological heritage.

  • Sea lice
  • Monte Verde

In charge of objective 3 of the sea lice project (FRDP 2025).

Entry no. 3: funding

What keeps us fed

Yes, we get paid to ask strange questions. Funding from ANID, the Regional Government and our own university: each grant brings new equipment, eager thesis students and the occasional long night.

    Entry no. 4: published work

    What we leave in writing (and in code)

    Papers, books and software with a permanent identifier. Tap a number to filter, and copy any citation with one click, no fighting with formats.

      Entry no. 5: theses

      Theses to go

      Degree theses that Medical Technology students wrote in the lab. Complete, in PDF and free: download them, read them and cite them.

        Entry no. 6: colony census

        Species album

        Medical technologists, engineers, methodologists, biologists and thesis students: every species different, all in the same jar. No duplicates, so you'll have to collect them all.

        Species that migrated

        Thesis students and interns who passed through the lab, left code behind and are now roaming free in the world.

          Entry no. 7: freshly observed

          Fresh out of the lab

          News, papers and every new piece of software we upload to Zenodo. That last part shows up on its own: the gecko checks Zenodo for us.

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            Who we play with

            • Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile
            • ANID, National Research and Development Agency
            • Explora Los Lagos
            • Los Lagos Regional Government
            • National Cultural Heritage Service
            • UACh School of Archaeology, Puerto Montt Campus
            • UACh Institute of Aquaculture and Environment
            • UACh Computer Engineering, Valdivia

            Got a problem that needs a tool?

            Tell us what it's about and we'll figure out how to solve it together. We also welcome thesis students and interns eager to build things.

            Write to the lab
            Where we are Building 500, third floor
            Universidad Austral de Chile, Puerto Montt Campus
            Juan Soler Manfredini 1771, Puerto Montt Get directions ↗
            TecMedHub logo: a brain made of circuits in rainbow colors

            TecMedHub is a lab of the School of Medical Technology at Universidad Austral de Chile, Puerto Montt Campus.

            Universidad Austral de Chile, Puerto Montt Campus