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EMBL-Stanford Life Science Alliance, Roche Diabetes Care and EIT Health are delivering a course Design Thinking: Approaches for Chronic Disease Management from 8 – 10 June 2020 at EMBL Heidelberg. Course Overview This workshop will bring together 30 young professionals and students to learn and apply state-of-the-art design thinking techniques. Over the course of three […]

Are you a biomedical founding team? Do you want to design and validate your business concept during a unique incubation and training program in Oxford and Munich? If you answered yes to these questions, then the BioEntrepreneur Bootcamp is the perfect program for you and your team. the BioEntrepreneur Bootcamp is a 4-month part-time accelerator programme […]

The EIT Health Accelerator Catalogue has many exciting programmes for 2020 … take a quick look, join our weekly Webinars and apply for the right programme or project! The EIT Health Accelerator creates an ecosystem where innovation can thrive. As part of the numerous activities of the EIT Health Accelerator, we collect the best and […]

Prof. Dr. Freimut Schliess discusses EC’s Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI in an article published by Open Access Government In April 2019, a high-level expert group on AI set up by the European Commission (EC) published “ Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI ” And asked the EIT Health to put them to the test to […]

The 2020 edition of Catalyst Europe is officially open and waiting for your applications! Catalyst Europe is a fellowship program focused on creating impact from biomedical research. The program is organized in a consortium of European academic, industry and hospital partners who implement and run the MIT linQ Catalyst methodology in Europe. The program aims […]

“Let Life Sciences Meet You!” This is the motto of the btS, Biotechnological Student Initiative e.V. in Heidelberg, which met for the first time last weekend, 11th-12th January, for the first cluster meeting of this year, supported by EIT Health Germany. The btS addresses all students or doctoral candidates in life sciences who like to […]

In 2020, we not only welcome numerous new partners, but also three new innovation projects: With ‘Flu diagnosis – Transforming influenza management in Europe’, ‘RealWorld4Clinic’ and ‘R2U-POC-Tox – Ready-to-use Point-of-Care Toxicity assay’ we are expanding our project portfolio for the Business Plan 2020. Improving the inefficient influenza supply path and overcoming additional obstacles to the […]

Are you a life science or medical master, PhD student or postdoc? Are you wondering how to bring your research idea to the market or asking yourself if a career in industry is the right choice for you? Then register for the 2020 IMIM Industry & Innovation Day from February 27 to 29 in Heidelberg!  […]

In 2020, we look forward to many new partners in our network with whom we will work together on the health solutions of the future. Since artificial intelligence (AI) will also play an increasingly important role in healthcare, we are proud to welcome the German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) as Associate Partner at the […]

The EPFL spin-off today announced the closing of a seed round for the first worm-on-chip technology for drug / chemical screening. This year’s Headstart finalist Nagi Bioscience announced today the closing of a CHF 1.8 million seed financing round, led by the leading Swiss venture capital platform Investiere, with participation from Zürcher Kantonalbank, NEST pension […]