The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on our society. The EIT Health community is at the forefront of healthcare innovation, and is well placed to play a role in responding to the crisis. Below this lines there’s a compilation of news and stories with the participation of EIT Health Spain partners.
Philips ultrasound OK’d for COVID-19 lung, cardiac care
FDA approves use of firm's ultrasound portfolio to manage COVID-19-related complications
Backed by EIT Health Alumni, DAP aids care facilities
Digital Aid Project seeks to aid nursing homes, rehabilitation centres and mental health facilities
AstraZeneca to cooperate on Oxford’s vaccine effort
Firm ready to facilitate distribution of Oxford University team's vaccination, which is already undergoing trials
Trinity College, NUI Galway COVID-19 projects funded
Teams from EIT Health Partners running some of the 26 projects backed by the Irish Government
Leyden Academy researches experiences of elderly
Interviews focus on how the pandemic is impacting the lives of senior citizens
Platform lets Dutch seniors exchange COVID-19 stories
Exchange helps older people who have to remain in isolation to maintain contacts with others
Ventilator from museum seen as low-tech solution
Scientists from TU Delft seek to mimic the simple design, which was made before the machines went digital
TU Delft team designs easy-to-produce ventilator
Made of standard parts, the device would be easy for manufacturers around the world to produce
Imperial College team alters device to test for virus
To solve need for greater testing, they converted a sensor for livestock infections into a COVID-19 scanner
EIT Health-backed firm fights aerosol-borne infections
Astradentium’s innovation helps protect dentists and their patients from infections like COVID-19
University Hospital Erlangen producing a plasma therapy
EIT Health Partner uses plasma from the blood of recovered COVID-19 patients, an approach that has shown promise
Patients can add to database to help study COVID-19
Austrian Institute of Technology cooperates in a system to gather useful data on COVID-19 in their country
Portal lets Dutch hospitals share COVID-19 data
EIT Health Partners Philips and Erasmus Medical Center in effort to allow exchange of patient information
Philips makes more respirators, adds new model
Seeking to fill the need with 4,000 units a week and 15,000 a week of the Respironics E30
LA LIGNE C telephone support line launched
La Ligne C will support people living with chronic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic
Production of surgical masks is scaled up
Healthcare company Essity has partnered with the Research Institute of Sweden to begin large scale production
EPFL gives green light to 12 COVID-19 projects
The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) COVID-19 projects range from cures to policy.
Labs repurposed for mass COVID-19 testing service
Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology supporting Government testing Programme
Sant Joan de Déu hospital creates app to support nurses
The app, created by a team of nurses, will provide access to COVID-19 training materials and protocols
Portal allows Irish GPs to treat patients remotely
Wellola, a company supported by EIT Health, partnerd in making the system, which keeps doctors and patients safe
ExactCure enables accurate dosage for drug trials
The start-up, supported by EIT Health, created a model of dosages for an experimental drug for COVID-19
Scanner provides quality control of handwashing
EIT Health-supported start-up HandInScan helps ensure sanitation against COVID-19
CytaCoat antibacterial coating helps patients in ICU
EIT Health backs start-up making an innovation that can effectively reduce secondary infections in COVID-19
TorTex uniforms monitor exposure to infection
EIT Health-supported start-up is already making face masks for use in Swedish hospitals
EIT Health-backed firm gives free remote-care tool
Platform provided free during crisis allows treatment and monitoring of patients at home
Ergotrics positions patients for optimal ventilation
EIT Health-supported start-up's innovation provides optimal position for COVID-19 patients who are on ventilators
Ares Genetics brings Chinese testing tech to Europe
2019 recipient of EIT Health support expects to provide next-generation sequencing services for the coronavirus
Weekly surveys of 135,000 people to help identify risks
University of Groningen and UMCG collaborate on research into hereditary and environmental risk factors
Karolinska OK to try using plasma of recovered patients
Swedish ethics authority approves anti-COVID-19 trial of technique that has worked for many other infections
University of Barcelona bioethics body gives guidance
"Recommendations for ethical decision making on the access of patients to special care units in pandemic situations"
Emergency ventilators developed to fill need
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and University of Barcelona join in sceintific collaboration on new, experimental models
EIT Health Partners in team identifying new treatment
IBEC, Karolinska Institute and others working on drug that blocks effects of virus behind COVID-19
DTU boosts Rigshospitalet’s COVID-19 testing capacity
As Denmark seeks to undertake more tests, EIT Health Partner supports one of the country's largest hospitals
EIT Health France supports hotline for chronically ill
First hotline on COVID-19 to help people living with a chronic disease is an innovative citizen action
Adapter could turn snorkel into mask for medics
Team at TU-Delft developing converter that can be produced by 3D printer to make protective gear
Leitat develops 3D printed emergency ventilator
Spanish tech company developed the 3D model for the medically approved emergency respirator
Inserm coordinates French research effort
REACTing consurtium unites several EIT Health Partners and other organisations in the fight to control COVID-19
Air Liquide to boost production of medical oxygen
EIT Health Partner will strive to meet US need for oxygen and other important gases for medical uses
EIT Health partners propose remote care during pandemic
Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris and INSERM recommend platform using hospital command centres
Sanofi and partner expand tests of coronavirus drug
Trials of the rheumatoid arthritis drug Kevzara for coronavirus treatment are planned in Europe, Canada and Russia
University of Tartu professor working on better diagnosis
Estonian researcher says his team's less-expensive more accurate test could be available by this autumn
AstraZeneca giving 9M face masks to healthcare workers
Italy first in line for donations; this EIT Health Partner is also undertaking research efforts to fight COVID-19
KU Leuven, Janssen work on Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine
Pharma firm's lead candidate for innoculation against corona virus identified through collaboration begun in January
EIT Health backs initiative to relieve healthcare system
AstraZeneca, Sanofi and AP-HP are among the members of the new "Health Innovation Coalition – Health Crisis"
Partners aim to have vaccine ready and tested in a year
University of Copenhagen and LUMC join four other partners in the ambitious Prevent-nCoV project
CEA joins consortium working on a new treatment
Broad spectrum anti-viral treatment can assist with this pandemic and improve readiness for future threats
University of Barcelona part of effort to speed testing
Developing a point-of-care platform to provide more rapid diagnosis and monitoring of COVID-19
First patients enrolled in COVID-19 trial
University of Oxford tests effects of potential drug treatments for COVID-19
TU Delft works on reusable surgical masks
University develops a way to test reused sterilised surgical masks and surgical masks made of new materials
LUMC researching new COVID-19 inhibitors
University researchers aim to develop new antiviral therapy options to fight COVID-19
Human antibody developed for COVID-19
Researchers from Erasmus Medical Centre have developed a human antibody
Philips ramps up health tech production
Technology company increasing production of critical care products and solutions
Eindhoven predict growth of new infections
Latest update: Researchers predict considerable increases in number of deaths
Supercomputer seeks molecules to fight virus
Team includes Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, KU Leuven, Università Federico II di Napoli and KTH
Rapid interaction profiling to aid drug discovery
Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt and INSERM join consortium using deep learning
TU Delft partners in research to improve response
Providing guidelines for improved crisis governance, with a focus on responders to public health emergencies
I-MOVE collects clinical and epidemiological information
Oxford and Sorbonne universities in Europe-wide influenza research that's expanded to include COVID-19
New antibody therapies being developed
AbCellera and Lilly to co-develop antibody therapeutics for treatment and prevention of COVID-19
ETH Zürich researchers track virus spread
Researchers are analysing public genome data using their statistical model to calculate beginning of epidemic
DFKI produce masks using 3D printers
DFKI has begun a limited production of protective masks, that protect against COVID-19, using 3D printers
Master’s students developing ventilators
TU Delft Master’s students have started an initiative for quickly developing inexpensive ventilators
Free access to clinical data platform
Climedo is offering free access to its clinical data platform for hospitals, NGOs, practices and institutions fighting COVID-19
CEA project selected by research accelerator
Their project, an experimental infection model to better understand COVID-19, has been selected by the REACTing consortium
Cap Digital launches dedicated crisis unit
Cap Digital has launched a dedicated crisis unit to help businesses with advice around topics such as legal…
Beiersdorf starts producing disinfectants
Beiersdorf has started serial production of medical grade disinfectants to supply 500 tonnes to central public bodies in…
Boston Scientific launches donation scheme
The employee match donation programme supports Project HOPE, a global health and humanitarian relief organisation
Fraunhofer IME joins EU-funded consortium, E4C
Fraunhofer IME joins EU-funded “Exscalate4CoV” consortium, searching for compounds inhibiting viral replication
Eurecat to open laboratories for mask trials
Their facilities will be available for manufacturers to use to test effectiveness of masks against COVID-19
Curetis test kit available for use
The rapid real-time test is now available across Europe. It tests for COVID-19 in only a few hours
Amgen supports relief efforts with up to $12.5M
The funding will support global relief efforts addressing critical needs in communities impacted by COVID-19
UG AND UMCG investigate COVID-19 inhaler
University of Groningen is investigating a drug that may be effective against COVID-19 via an inhaler
Technion confirms improved patient testing method
The pooling method enables simultaneous sample testing and could greatly accelerate COVID-19 detection
Oxford’s COVID-19 research receives funding
New funding from the UK government will support University of Oxford in the testing of a new vaccine
Cambridge researchers work on COVID-19 vaccine
Cambridge University researchers are using technology developed for influenza and Ebola to target COVID-19
Novo Nordisk dedicates R&D laboratory for testing
Novo Nordisk aims to test hundreds of samples every day to slow the spread of COVID-19
Novo Nordisk donates hand sanitiser supplies
Novo Nordisk is donating 20 tonnes of ethanol in response to a shortage of hand sanitiser in Denmark
KIT’s interactive site tracks infections
Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie’s interactive website shows the spread of COVID-19 in Germany
Karolinska Institutet closer to finding a vaccine
Three COVID-19 projects from Karolinska Institutet have progressed to the final phase in a bid for EU funding
Janssen helps develop a preventive vaccine
Janssen and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, aim to soon identify a vaccine candidate for clinical trials
Roche initiates Phase III clinical trial
Roche has initiated a clinical trial to study Actemra/RoActemra for treating people with COVID-19 pneumonia
Roche’s COVID-19 test made available to hospitals
Roche’s COVID-19 test has received FDA Emergency Use Authorisation, increasing available testing capacity
IPN supports COVID-19 learning game
Mindflow, based at Instituto Pedro Nunes, has created a game to help demystify the issues surrounding COVID-19
IBEC works on preventing virus from replicating
IBEC is researching how to stop COVID-19 from infecting other cells, preventing the virus from replicating
IrsiCaixa joins group to develop new vaccine
IrsiCaixa has joined a team of researchers to develop antibodies, drugs and a vaccine against COVID-19
ICS launches symptom monitoring app
Citizens can report their symptoms to Institut Català de la Salut and receive relevant advice
ESSILOR donates protective items
Over 200,000 masks, protective goggles and supplies have been donated to front-line respondents including police
Biocat renews focus on solutions for COVID-19
Design Health Barcelona is finding medical solutions that can help in the fight against COVID-19
BD and CerTest Biotec announce diagnostic test
New COVID-19 Detection Kit is available to clinical laboratories in countries recognising the CE mark
Bayer donates €1million to hospitals in Lombardy
Bayer has donated one million euros to help procure urgently needed equipment for intensive care units in Lombardy
Baxter sets up product donation programme
Donation of continuous renal replacement therapy systems, masks and protective equipment to healthcare providers
Project launches to diagnose COVID-19 in 30 minutes
The CONVAT project will develop a device for rapid diagnosis of COVID-19 direct from patient samples
AstraZeneca research COVID-19 neutralising antibodies
Research begins to find novel coronavirus-neutralising antibodies as a potential treatment to prevent COVID-19
AP-HP and Sanofi join forces to accelerate clinical research
AP-HP and Sanofi join forces to create scientific committee to accelerate clinical research into COVID-19
Amgen’s free online platform supports home schooling
Free online platform with resources to help parents and teachers with home schooling during the pandemic
New app launches to track spread in Catalonia
Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia launched app to track the spread of COVID-19
Inserm trials four upcoming treatments
Clinical trial to assess the efficacy and safety of four potential COVID-19 treatments aims to include 3200 patients
Inserm accelerates research through consortium
20 projects will unite to fight COVID-19 through a new consortium organised by Inserm
Imperial College London tests a new vaccine
Researchers are currently testing a candidate vaccine which they aim to launch next year
Imperial reviews impact of public health measures
ICL has analysed the impact of multiple public health measures on slowing and suppressing the spread of COVID-19
IESE offers businesses change management support
Helping businesses respond by giving access to resources such as change management and managing virtual teams
GE Healthcare increases manufacturing capacity
Increasing manufacturing capacity for equipment important in the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 patients
ISGLOBAL hosts myth dispelling webinar
Free webinar addresses provenance, taxonomy, transmissibility and lethality of the virus
Fundació Clínic launches fundraising campaign
Fundació Clínic are raising €150,000 to help fund research into COVID-19 and improve the care of patients
IMEC helps teachers continue their work online
Providing freely available tools for teachers as well as launching a teacher helpline
University experts helping with app development
Infectious disease experts provide evidence for an instant contact tracing mobile app
University of Copenhagen given EU grant
Researchers receive €2.7 million to develop a COVID-19 vaccine
Profil supports vaccine development
Profil is supporting vaccine developers to navigate regulation, early phase trials and making research clinics available
Medtronic supports relief efforts
Medtronic and the Medtronic Foundation have committed $1.2 million to COVID-19 relief efforts across the globe
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona supporting the front line
Hospital has launched a campaign so citizens can send messages of support to professionals and patients
Celon initiates therapeutic programme
Company is in initial stages of testing existing and approved therapies in relation to COVID-19
BioM calls on community to solve crisis
BioM has launched a project call to solve the COVID-19 crisis and is helping connect people across Bavaria
Boehringer Ingelheim screens entire molecule library
Scientists are screening one million compounds to help identify novel small molecules with activity against the virus
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