Seven win UK-Ireland HeadStart/Proof-of-Concept Awards

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

Seven winners from the UK and Ireland were chosen to receive funding when EIT Health UK-Ireland held its HeadStart/Proof-of-Concept finals pitch competition on 19 July at Oxford University.

The contest coincided with EIT UK-Ireland’s annual general meeting.

The winning projects were:

• Aurigen Medical
• Loci Orthopaedics
• MoRoW
• Oxford Heartbeat
• Ostoform
• SELIO Medical
• Vison Technologies

Following a day of training on 18 July, hopeful entrpreneurs competed for EIT Health HS/PoC Awards. It was part of the two-day event at Oxford called “Healthcare Innovation – From Generating Ideas to Funding them”, hosted by Oxford Biodesign in partnership with EIT Health UK-Ireland.