Merck, a leading science and technology company, announced today the new startups participating in its Accelerator programs in Darmstadt, Germany and Nairobi, Kenya. The two program locations accept startups from different fields within Merck's core specialisms: Darmstadt takes startups from the fields of healthcare, life sciences and performance materials, while Nairobi works exclusively on innovations in digital healthcare.
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Startupbootcamp Digital Health Berlin: Call for Digital Health Startups
Startupbootcamp Digital Health Berlin supports innovative startups that combine medical knowledge with smart technologies, with special focus on behavior change, diagnostics and genomics, big data and analytics. Startupbootcamp provides mentorship, funding, logistic support and access to our huge network of industry specific mentors, corporate partners, angels and VC's to up to 10 high potential Digital Health startups from around the world.
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LEO Innovation Lab CEO Wins eyeforpharma Customer Innovator Award
LEO Innovation Lab is proud to announce that our CEO Kristian Hart-Hansen has won the eyeforpharma Customer Innovator Award. Kristian has spearheaded the growth of the LEO Innovation Lab since it's conception in 2015 with just six team members, to a thriving incubator of over 80 people and 15 projects today. The lab was established by LEO Pharma as an independent initiative to focus on using digital innovation to help individuals manage chronic skin conditions.
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German Accelerator Life Sciences (GALS) - Advise, Connect, Inspire
German Accelerator Life Sciences (GALS) helps young German life science companies succeed in the global market. GALS provides individualized and highly flexible services, tailored towards the specific needs and objectives of startups and emerging companies in the life sciences. Experienced mentors and consultants work with the participating teams to establish networks of potential clients, partners, and investors.
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Sandoz Announces Winners of Inaugural Healthcare Access Challenge #SandozHACk
Sandoz, a Novartis Division, announced today the three winners of the inaugural Healthcare Access Challenge (Sandoz HACk). The winners, chosen by a panel of judges at the Wired Health 2017 event in London, identified innovative approaches to address challenges in Ghana, the Maldives and the Philippines. The winning ideas all proposed novel ways to use mobile technologies to connect patients with caregivers and essential medicines, addressing access issues specific to their country but with the potential for solutions to be applied elsewhere.
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UK and Italian Health Tech Firms to Help Share Crucial Data Across STPs
Data sharing ambitions set out in newly published sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) have been given a boost by a new strategic partnership between data management specialist Stalis and Italy's largest health IT company, Dedalus. The new partnership looks to make vital patient information, currently stored on dozens or even hundreds of legacy IT systems, accessible for care professionals working in different NHS and public sector organisations.
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eHealth Adoption Awards 2017
The Awards that recognise the work of adopters and their technological suppliers in implementing eHealth innovation for the benefit of patients. Both are invited to jointly apply and publicly present their success story on 11 May 2017 at the eHealth Week in Malta.
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