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Oxford spin-out achieves investment milestone

On World Heart Day we celebrate six innovators optimising cardiovascular treatment.

David's top tips on problem solving through design thinking

Latest continuous professional development courses now open

Latest funds accelerate commercialisation of BioHealx device.

Antoinette Perry explains her solution for early detection of prostate cancer.

Digital health is spotlighted in the 2nd instalment of the series

Raising €40M investment in 5 years.

The last remaining Irish start-up on the competition is in with a chance of securing €1.5M funding.

EIT Health statement welcoming its adoption

Latest funds will accelerate the development of life-saving treatments

1st instalment of the 'Creating Impact' series deep dives 'value-based healthcare'

The investment will support growing the team and further technical development.

The team is now looking to raise £1.5M from VCs and crowdfunding.

Meet the six Ireland-UK Catapult semi-finalists 2022-23.

Final call for applications

Highlights from the HSE Spark Summit.

A round-up of highlights from the EIT Health Summit 2022.

Graham's top tips on building consortia for innovation projects.

US legal and health experts share their knowledge.

Catapult's Alex Casta award goes to Luminate Medical

SolasCure wins Catapult during EIT Health Summit 2022

8 health start-ups in Ireland secure places on 7 EIT Health programmes

Liam English explains how data is transforming healthcare.

A roundup of good news stories on Irish MedTech Innovation

9 health start-ups in Ireland raise €31.1M in 2021.

3 programmes that provide the investment needed to launch your start-up into Europe.

Innovative lung cancer diagnosis solution

Trinity Tangent partners with HSE Digital Transformation

An overview of the In-Vitro Diagnostics Regulation

Start-ups successfully scaling their solutions abroad

Joe Lanzillotta explains how i-Days run at TCD.

To support further clinical trials

Investment will support further clinical trials of medical device FibroFix™

Latest investment will support a Feasibility clinical study for CroíValves DUO Coaptation Valve system to combat tricuspid regurgitation.

Entrepreneurship and advice for health innovators starting out.

Data and health leaders shared their expert knowledge at a recent EIT Health Ireland-UK event. Here is a roundup of the highlights.

In this week’s Ireland-UK hub blog we take a look at what opportunities are on the horizon for healthcare as data-driven technologies advance further.

2022 Accelerator calls now open.

Funds to help bring product to market

Natalie Walsh at NUIG discusses the partnership with EIT Health

Improving Higher Education Institution innovation capacity

EIT Health 2021 highlights roundup from Ireland-UK hub

Finalists will compete in May 2022

21 start-ups selected to improve solutions for healthy ageing

EIT Health to partner European Digital Health Innovation Centre.

Expert-led series to support start-up development

Receiving up to €27.5m to support innovation capacity 

Learn about these promising start-ups

Helping firms expand to new markets

Helping SMEs expand in Europe and beyond

UK-based start-up delivers remote-learning solutions

Unhindr has won funding to scale AI prosthetic device

New base in Ireland to grow network

Five university teams awarded prizes

New Managing Director for EIT Health Ireland & UK

The teams will pitch at the virtual semi-finals

Expert-led series to support start-up development

Development of ventilation prototype for global use

Start-ups can apply for Mentoring and Coaching Network vouchers

96 start-ups receiving mentoring and financial support

Wellola, an EIT Health supported start-up, collaborates with 600-plus healthcare providers

Team led by Imperial College London secure Rapid Response Grant to tackle COVID-19

Call to tackle childhood obesity

The first human use of CroíValve’s device

3000-plus team of experts developing low-cost ventilators

By 2060, 155 million Europeans, or 30 percent of the total European population, will be 65 years or older. In this ageing demography, caregivers have crucial role but are often undereducated and have a low influence on their work situation. Qualitative training for caregivers has a huge potential as it raises the skills levels of a large and sometimes overlooked workforce and can have a significant impact on caregiving for an ageing population. CARE Campus is a unique, EIT Health-supported, training programme providing high-quality distance education for both professional and family caregivers. When wrapping up the four-year programme, almost 12.000 caregivers have taken the online courses.

Roliner is an adaptive wearable that aims to bring comfort to prosthetic limbs and other wearables.

QuickStitch promises to be more cost-effective, faster and yield superior clinical results than sutures and stitches

Digital Health Spin-out from the University of Newcastle is bringing about behaviour change at scale

Health professionals awarded bursaries

Successes from the University of Oxford

Headstart winner, Xploro, has partnered with Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona

EIT Health supported MOOC opens 20 January

InPhysEd is all set to run in July

Kurt Höller, EIT Health Business Creation Director, will be a panelist at the forum

A wellness platform

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Bringing essential advances in surgical intervention for thumb-base arthritis one step closer to the market

An affordable turnkey hysteroscopy simulator

Innovative approach to funding innovation

First EU network of investors focused solely on healthcare innovation

Post created to unite public affairs and communications functions

Good news on UK plans for Horizon 2020

Innovative healthtech projects will be showcased at EIT Health’s exhibition space

Empowering health professionals, health innovators, healthcare providers and policy makers

EIT Health training initiative seeks to professionalise elder care

EIT Health Campus activity empowers older adults with intellectual disabilities

Experts on Big Data in Healthcare suggest innovative solutions to improve healthcare systems

Six UK and Ireland Biotech, MedTech and Digital Health companies will participate in the 2018 EHC semi-finals

Potential projects for the BP2019 2nd Innovation by Ideas Call for Proposals

Chosen from 22 finalists on 17 July 2019

The first set of Round Table topics for the event have been released

FAQs on BP2019 Call for Proposals & Application Process

Health, food or raw materials ideas sought

Winners will receive extensive EIT Health support for developing transformative healthcare innovations

Expert Maria Piggin tells us more about CRISH and its future developments

Effective 30 April 2018

AT THE EDGE tournament identifies transformative ideas for EIT Health support

Stanford Biodesign Concept and other approaches employed

Registration open for some courses

Q&A with Ania Henley, Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Adviser at Imperial College, an EIT Health UK-Ireland partner

Imperial College London is particularly active

Partners Join 2018 Innovation Projects

Online application interface is open

Upcoming important dates and UKI regional innovation hub Support links included

EIT Health supports courses, offered in both French and English, that feature five training modules

More than 100 executives and professionals trained

Damibu’s CATCH app hailed as 'nationally-important' innovation

Kareen Forissier becomes new COO

Online application is open now until April 8, 2018

Competition runs until July 2018

Preventing Pneumothorax and Creating Jobs in Ireland’s MedTech Sector

Proposals due by 8 March

Application deadline 8 March 2018

Partners are urged to apply

Effective 1 January 2018

The UK-Ireland CLC congratulates Oxford Endovascular on their 3rd place award in the European Health Catapult (MedTech)

Find out more about Home Instead in the EIT Health UK-Ireland Partnership Portfolio

EIT Health-supported project offers a wearable system that has attracted hundreds of developers

Revolutionary online healthcare platform PhysioWizard raised a total of £1million of funding from business angels Archangels

A great achievement for EIT Health UK-Ireland Headstart winner

EIT Health and other KICs included

Applications will be open between 10 January and 9 March 2018

Voting held on the first day of the EIT Health Summit

Annual gathering allows our partners to share progress and plan future support for healthcare innovation

The Smart Ageing Innovation Awards aims to recognise and celebrate innovative products, services, and technologies across multiple sectors that help to improve the quality of life of consumers aged 50+

All are invited to join in a cooperative educational experience

'Smart Trials' wins EIT Health support

They will compete in London during the 4-5 December Summit

Two projects accepted

EIT Health partner developed a new failure prediction system for Industry 4.0

WE Health aims at enhancing the participation of women in health innovation

At the final round of pitches of the 2017 EIT Health DPhil/PhD Transition Fellowship, held at the UK-Ireland regional innovtion hub main offices in London, eleven young and inspiring entrepreneurs were awarded with one of the covered fellowships.

Discussion on generating and funding Ideas in the Healthcare Innovation Sector

The Imperial College business school, an EIT Health Partner, is presenting a new short course that will take place 10-12 October

Come and attend this exciting vitality festival for citizens, professionals and researchers

EIT Health Innovation Project

Event at Oxford coincides with 19 July Annual General Meeting of UK-Ireland

€330 000 in grants given to EIT Health Headstart/Proof of Concept winners

Portal currently lists 45 health-sector investments

EIT Health Campus is now accepting applications for the Call for Proposals for Summer Schools 2018. Applications are being accepted until 27 November 2017.

ProACT will be the first cloud-based, digital solution of its kind in Ireland and Europe

BioExcel Accelerator programme at NUI Galway is open to applications from med-tech entrepreneurs

Award winning evidence-based Health App developer, Evolyst, is trying to improve quality of life for Cystic Fibrosis patients

EIT Health CAMPUS is happy to inform you that a Call for Proposals for Summer Schools 2018 will be published and available in the week of 16 October.

Interactive physiotherapy programmes in Virtual Reality

Selected participants have completed the first week of the programme, delivered by Imperial College London

The consortium consists of a variety of international partners which contribute with very different skillsets to the success of the project. Led by AbbVie, the consortium also includes Heidelberg University, Salud Madrid, Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, Central Institute of Mental Health, Fraunhofer Society and HealthVision GmbH.

Safety Belt to Go2China is led by E-Group and supported by IMEC and the University of Groningen. Out of the 38 applicants, 18 Biotech, Medtech and Digital Health Scale-ups and SME companies have been selected to participate in the Go2China programme’s Bootcamp in Groningen - of which 5-10 will be chosen in Groningen to join the outbound mission to China-Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

Cross-KIC event serves RIS regions

CDTM and EIT Health collaborate in seminar based on CLOSE project

After two intense days of pitch coaching and investment training sessions in Liverpool with Beth Susanne, International Pitch and Communications Coach, Raj Airey, venture developer, advisor and investor, Gabriela Juarez Martinez, Knowledge Transfer Manager at Innovate UK and Eithne McShane, Senior Commercialisation Specialist at Enterprise Ireland, the UK-Ireland finalists of this year’s Headstart Funding Programme delivered their pitch in front of a jury of experts.

The weekend programme consisted of two parts, a training and a coaching session. During the training, the groups learned the basic tools for running their own business: designing the business plan, discovering their motivations, targeting the costumers, and pitching in front of investors.

Two early registrants going to CONNECT and INNOVEIT

Members of the European AI Alliance can interact with the experts of the High Level Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLG), established by the European Commission, in a forum-style setting. By signing up to the Alliance, members will find a dedicated platform where they can offer input and feedback to the AI HLG.

During the event, the Innovation Agency explored local, national and international trends in healthcare and promoted the benefits of digital health innovations to improve the quality of life of patients in the UK, especially in the Northwest Coast area. A fantastic line of speakers, including Steve Rotheram, the Metro Mayor of Liverpool City Region, and Paul Rice, Head of Technology Strategy at NHS England, attended the event to share their experiences about the impact that digital technology is having on the way health and social care are delivered.

This award seeks to highlight the individuals, teams or organisations which are going the furthest towards breaking down barriers between different services to ensure patients with long-term and multiple needs get the right care in the right place for them.

In this brief video, one of a series of interviews with EIT Health Activity leaders, Wolfgang Eberle discusses the Product/Market Fit programme, which helps healthcare start-ups move into markets outside of their home country.

"The Person-Centred Care Champion Award" of the NHS70 Parliamentary Awards, an honour being supported by EIT Health, was bestowed upon Community Tissue Viability Services at Pennine Acute NHS Trust in Manchester in a ceremony held in the House of Commons in London, England on 4 July 2018.

EIT Health issued on 28 June 2018 a Position Statement supporting Horizon Europe – the European Commission’s Research and Innovation Programme, which will replace Horizon 2020 and was outlined in the European Commission’s 7 June 2018 proposals – while also urging increased funding for research and for the EIT in particular.

Campus programme targets PhD students The application deadline has been extended until 23 June for EIT Health Campus Transition Fellowships, which are designed to help PhD students turn their ideas into enterprises.

Article provides overview of EIT Health

Activity leader video interview: Alexandre Duclos on E-Labs Corner

The EIT Health partners universities are collaborating to close the gap between completion of the doctoral thesis and obtaining seed funding for innovative ideas

The 2019 EIT Health Think Tank topic of "Optimising Innovation Pathways: Future Proofing for Success" was introduced with a Digital Town Hall on 7 May 2019, live from Munich, Germany via video link.

22 will pitch for up to €50 000 in support in Dublin on 17 July

Thirteen start-ups were officially named today as winners of the 2019 EIT Health Scandinavia Headstart awards. Chosen from around 40 applicants, the winners come from all over Scandinavia and will receive funding that helps them take steps towards market launch and commercialisation.

In Galway, Ireland

Five of our nominees were finalists for EIT Awards

Students work on healthcare innovation in teams; one more date set for March

Enhancing the participation of women in health innovation and entrepreneurship activities

Grenoble iDays winners continue their adventure in London.

The University of Oxford awarded four PhD/DPhil Transition Fellowships

Winners will go on to compete for up to €30 000 in a pitch competitions

Young innovators receive support and training