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Wayra UK and MSD's Velocity Health Open a Second Call for the Digital Startup Community

Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd (MSD), a global healthcare company, and Wayra UK, part of Telefonica Open Future, open a second call for the digital start-up community to create radical solutions that reimagine how healthcare can be delivered to help improve delivery and patient outcomes.

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Sandoz Invites Young Entrepreneurs to Enter #SandozHACk, a Global Competition to Help Solve Healthcare Access Challenges

Sandoz, the Novartis generic and biosimilar pharmaceutical division, announces the launch of Sandoz HACk - Healthcare Access Challenge - a global competition to generate innovative ideas and solutions to help tackle some of the world's most pressing healthcare access problems. The competition is open for entries until November 30, 2016.

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Video Gamers Outdo Scientists in Contest to Discover Protein's Shape

Gamers playing the popular online puzzle game Foldit beat scientists, college students and computer algorithms in a contest to see who could identify a particular protein's shape. The study findings have implications for video game enthusiasts and classroom instruction, and showcase the positive impact citizen science can have on research.

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Open Call SC1-HCO-17-2017: Support for Large Scale Uptake of Digital Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing

Several activities on scaling up of digital innovation for active and healthy ageing are currently pursued by the Commission in cooperation with a large number of different stakeholder groups and partner organisations. A coordination and support action is needed to promote the effective uptake and impact of these activities and to leverage additional investments by mobilising other national and regional programmes together with private investments.

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Specific Grant Agreement One Signed by the European Commission and the Human Brain Project

The European Commission and the Human Brain Project (HBP) Coordinator, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), have signed the first Specific Grant Agreement (SGA1), releasing EUR 89 million in funding retroactively from 1st April 2016 until the end of March 2018. The signature of SGA1 means that the HBP and the European Commision have agreed on the HBP Work Plan for these two years.

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Accenture Launches HealthTech Innovation Challenge to Foster Technology Innovation In the Healthcare Industry

Accenture has announced the creation of the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge which brings together leading-edge startups with prominent life sciences and health companies to tackle some of the world's greatest health challenges including access, affordability and transparency.

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A Mobile Device Developed by VTT Detects Irregular Heartbeats and Helps to Prevent Cerebral Infarctions

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a mobile app and thumb-size device that help to prevent cerebral infarctions at an early stage, during asymptomatic atrial fibrillation. The mobile device, which detects arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) has been tested with excellent results for around two years in real-life conditions in cooperation with Turku University Central Hospital.

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Philips and Qualcomm Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance Personalized Connected Health Care

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) and Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) through its subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, Inc., have announced a strategic technology collaboration to advance connected health across the health continuum - from healthy living and prevention to chronic care management and home care.

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FDA Launches #NaloxoneApp Competition to Spur Innovative Technologies to Help Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the 2016 Naloxone App Competition, a public contest focused on developing innovative technologies to combat the rising epidemic of opioid overdose. The FDA, with support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is inviting computer programmers, public health advocates, clinical researchers, entrepreneurs and innovators from all disciplines to

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CHIC Project Survey: Your Opinion Counts

The EU-funded CHIC project (Computational Horizons In Cancer: Developing Meta- and Hyper-Multiscale Models and Repositories for In Silico Oncology) proposes the development of clinical trial driven tools, services and secure infrastructure that will support the creation of multiscale cancer hypermodels (integrative models). The latter are defined as choreographies of component models, each one describing a biological process at a characteristic spatiotemporal scale, and of relation models/metamodels defining the relations across scales.

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