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Sustainable Health Day at the Innovation Week 26 by the University of Bordeaux

28 June 2017, Bordeaux, France.
The University of Bordeaux explores leading innovations within the health system. No matter the discipline (translational imaging, rhythmology and electrophysiology, or even experimental psychopathology) the questions remain the same: as academics, what is our role in the modernization and improvement of healthcare? Consequently, what are the societal impacts of the innovations we have to offer?

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Modeling the Brain with 'Lego Bricks'

Researchers from the University of Luxembourg, in cooperation with the University of Strasbourg, have developed a computational method that could be used to guide surgeons during brain surgery. Surgeons often operate in the dark. They have a limited view of the surface of the organ, and can typically not see what lies hidden inside. Quality images can routinely be taken prior to the surgery, but as soon as the operation begins, the position of the surgeon's target and risky areas he must avoid, continuously change.

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m.Doc Named Winner in Nationwide WeDoDigital 2017

"Everyone talks? We do" is this year's slogan of the WeDoDigital campaign initiated by the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce - a campaign that aims to honor digital success stories in 2017. Cologne-based, digital healthcare company m.Doc is one of the nationwide winners. The award was given to m.Doc's founder and CEO Admir Kulin at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs' Alliance Summit in Berlin yesterday.

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European Patent Office 2017 Inventor Award Goes to Employee of Siemens Healthineers

The European Patent Office has honored Dutch product manager Jan van den Boogaart, 57, from Siemens Healthineers, and his Austrian research colleague Prof. Oliver Hayden, 45, with the 2017 European Inventor Award for the method they developed together for the automated identification of malaria.

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Artificial Intelligence to Assist in the Treatment of Heart Patients

The University of Tampere and TAYS (Tampere University Hospital) Heart Hospital use artificial intelligence (A.I.) technologies developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in the home care of heart patients. The objective is to recognize serious difficult-to-predict complications as early as possible using the latest methods.

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Bayer Grants4Apps® Dealmaker Berlin 2017

Bayer Grants4Apps® is calling all mature teams, startups and companies that have a solution ready to go. The new Dealmaker is all about quality facetime between you and Grants4Apps' experts for one full day. If there is a match, you will be invited to Berlin to pitch your solution, discuss collaboration options and close a deal. Find out, if there is a mutual interest to start a bigger journey.

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Boehringer Ingelheim Builds Digital Lab "BI X" with Focus on Innovative Digital Solutions in Healthcare

With the founding of BI X as independent subsidiary Boehringer Ingelheim will focus on breakthrough innovative digital solutions in healthcare from idea to pilot. The start-up will work closely together with all three business units of the company - Human Pharma, Animal Health and Biopharmaceuticals.

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Home Monitoring of Blood Sugar Did Not Improve Glycemic Control After 1 Year

Self-monitoring of blood glucose levels in patients with type 2 diabetes who are not treated with insulin did not improve glycemic control or health-related quality of life after one year in a randomized trial, results that suggest self-monitoring should not be routine in these patients, according to a new study published by JAMA Internal Medicine. The study has been presented at the American Diabetes Association 77th Scientific Sessions.

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New Cellular Imaging Paves Way for Cancer Treatment

Researchers at the Universities of York and Leiden have pioneered a technique which uses florescent imaging to track the actions of key enzymes in cancer, genetic disorders and kidney disease. Scientists hope this new development will aid drug design for new anti-cancer, inflammation and kidney disease treatments.

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EC Open Call FETOPEN-01-2016-2017: FET-Open Research and Innovation Actions

The successful exploration of new foundations for radically new future technologies requires supporting a large set of early stage, high risk visionary science and technology projects to investigate new ideas. Here agile, risk-friendly and highly interdisciplinary research approaches are needed with collaborations that are open to all sciences and disciplines and that dissolve the traditional boundaries between them.

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