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Maja Kecman Maja Kecman            

Senior Associate
Tel: +44 (0)207 590 4242
Email: maja.kecman@network.rca.ac.uk

Maja holds a Masters degree in Industrial Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art and an undergraduate degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Cambridge University. Her designs have won numerous awards including first prize in the Helen Hamlyn Design for our Future Selves Awards and was shortlisted for British Female Inventor of the Year.

At the Helen Hamlyn Centre, Maja has worked closely with DePuy, Johnson & Johnson, on the complete redesign of their orthopaedic instrument kit and is currently leading on the Design for Patient Dignity project. In addition to working at the Helen Hamlyn Centre, Maja provides consulting services to several companies, most recently Pharmasol. She is currently developing her personal project, a self-administered smear test kit, to take it to proof-of-principle trials at the Manchester Infirmary in 2010.