| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.12.2023 | European Partnership for Personalised Medicine opens up new opportunities for EIT Health Partners | The newly launched European Partnership for Personalised Medicine (EP PerMed) combines European Commission (EC), national and regional funding with the aim of improving future healthcare for all citizens through personalised therapy, diagno... |
| 30.10.2023 | Paediatric Health Innovator Named Winners At Wild Card 2023 Awards Ceremony | The EIT Health Wild Card Programme has crowned Innocens, an AI-empowered neonatal ICU support system, as this year’s victor. Following closely, runner-up Gate2Brain offers a transformative Central Nervous System (CNS) drug delivery method, ... |
| 27.09.2023 | VCoE and six start-ups nominated for Prix Galien | The Venture Centre of Excellence (VCoE), a public-private co-investment programme run by EIT Health and the European Investment Fund (EIF), has been nominated for a 2023 Prix Galien Award, which honours excellence in scientific innovation. ... |
| 27.09.2023 | EIT Health Awards 12 Elder Care Start-ups up to €50K | We are proud to announce the latest Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awardees. These awards are part of the Healthy Longevity Global Competition, which champions ground-breaking innovations focused on enhancing health and vitality in later life.
... |
| 25.09.2023 | EIT Health’s €1.5M Investment Advances CVD Care | EIT Health has invested €1.5 million to fund heart health innovation projects between 2016 and 2022, with the aim of bringing innovation solutions to unmet heart health needs to market faster. Ahead of World Heart Day, on Friday, 29 Septemb... |
| 08.09.2023 | EIT Health Catapult 2023-24 selects 30 semifinalists | We are excited to announce that thirty promising start-ups will go through the EIT Health Catapult 2023-24 semifinals. Each year, the competition showcases Europe’s most promising life science and healthtech start-ups to leading experts and... |
| 31.07.2023 | MiMARK awarded inaugural Agnès Guerraz Prize | The health start-up MiMARK has been selected as the winner of the inaugural Agnès Guerraz Prize for Women Entrepreneurship by the WorkInHealth Foundation, for their transformative work in gynaecological cancer care.
This award, named after... |
| 28.07.2023 | 20 scale-ups selected for EIT Health Bridgehead 2023 | We are delighted to announce that we have selected twenty healthcare scale-ups to receive customised assistance to expand their businesses internationally through our Bridgehead programme in 2023. Our selected scale-ups represent a diverse ... |
| 13.07.2023 | EIT Health partners with EUREGHA | EIT Health and EUREGHA have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to leverage regional diversity to implement the European Health Data Space. With EUREGHA’s unique position in representing regional and local health authorities, and our Co-Lo... |
| 30.06.2023 | EIT Health partners with PSCC to drive innovation | We are proud to announce a new collaboration with the Paris Saclay Cancer Cluster (PSCC). Through this collaboration, start-ups within the PSCC will gain access to our network of over 130 European partners, tapping into their proven experti... |
| 28.06.2023 | ProHerz gains DiGA status following EIT Health support | A therapy companion for patients with heart failure developed through EIT Health project, ProHerz, has received DiGA status. Now officially recognised as a reimbursable digital health application by the German government, ProHerz empowers h... |
| 21.06.2023 | Catapult 2023 Winners Announced at Bits & Pretzels | The EIT Health Catapult 2023 competition winners were revealed yesterday, 20th June, at the Bits & Pretzels HealthTech Conference. The competition aims to accelerate the growth of European health start-ups by providing them with access ... |
| 06.06.2023 | Nia Health closes €3.5M seed financing round | EIT Health-supported start-up, Nia Health, a spin-off of Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has received €3.5 million in a seed funding round. The funding comes from High-Tech Gründerfonds, adesso ventures, Ventura BioMed Investors, the fu... |
| 23.05.2023 | How can young scientists move to innovation roles? | We caught up with Carmen Schweicker to understand how EIT Health’s SCIFI programme helped her transition from being a scientist in academia to a fast-paced role in the MedTech industry. In the short Q&A that follows, Carmen explains how... |
| 17.05.2023 | EIT Health named top business accelerator by UBI Global | EIT Health has been named the world’s leading Public|Private Business Accelerator in the UBI Global World Benchmark Study 2022-2023. We have supported over 1,300 start-ups and facilitated investments totalling more than €3 billion, highligh... |
| 11.05.2023 | Arthex Biotech closes a €42M Series B financing round | EIT Health-supported start-up, Arthex Biotech, has successfully closed a €42 million Series B financing round. Prior to attracting these funds, the Valencia-based clinical-stage biotech start-up received an EIC accelerator grant, having bee... |
| 09.05.2023 | EIT Health-supported S4DX closes €3.6M financing round | EIT Health Wild Card alumni, Smart4Diagnostics (S4DX), has successfully closed €3.6M in a bridge financing round. The funding comes from private investors including VP Venture Partners and the SARSTEDT AG & Co. KG. and will be used to s... |
| 19.04.2023 | EIT Health and IHI unite to drive healthcare innovation | We have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking (IHI JU) to formalise our collaboration. The MoU signing marks a significant milestone in our joint commitment to supporting ground-b... |
| 13.04.2023 | European Digital HealthTech Hub Conference 2023 | Together with Luxinnovation and Medical Valley, we are proud to announce the European Digital HealthTech Hub Conference on 16-17 May in Luxembourg.
This event aims to bring together healthtech stakeholders from across Europe to exchange ex... |
| 06.04.2023 | Addressing Health Challenges to Promote Health for All | By Jean-Marc Bourez, CEO, EIT Health
As we observe World Health Day, which is this year focused on #HealthForAll, we call upon all actors to join us in shaping and accelerating the future of innovation.
In the aftermath of the pandemic, r... |
| 03.04.2023 | 21 start-ups reach EIT Health Catapult Final | Twenty-one start-ups from across Europe have secured their places at the EIT Health Catapult Final. The finalists represent the most promising European start-ups across BioTech, MedTech and Digital Health.
The EIT Health Catapult, currentl... |
| 30.03.2023 | EIT Health project EDIT-B launches new test for bipolar | This World Bipolar Day, we are celebrating EDIT-B consortium’s accelerated launch of a ground-breaking diagnostic test for bipolar disorder, made possible by our support. EIT Health innovation project, EDIT-B, has developed a revolutionary ... |
| 23.03.2023 | EIT Health Catapult alumni NU-RISE raises €3M | EIT Health-supported start-up, NU-RISE, is celebrating having raised over €3M in a new round of investment. The Portuguese start-up provides real-time patient dose tracking for precise, autonomous, and safer radiation oncology.
Born in 201... |
| 17.03.2023 | EIT Health-supported SpotLab celebrates market launch | Spanish start-up, SpotLab, has launched an intelligent fully integrated mobile platform for remote analysis of medical images to the market. They are also celebrating their first sales to pharmaceutical companies and global health instituti... |
| 09.03.2023 | EIT EIC CollabPilot success stories | EIT Health partnered with the European Innovation Council (EIC) for a year-long pilot collaboration that sought to create synergies between the two organisations for the purpose of enhancing Europe’s support of innovation and breakthrough t... |
| 01.02.2023 | MiMARK shifts cancer care model with EIT Health support | We are marking World Cancer Day, on February 4th, by highlighting the importance of developing new models to deliver healthcare to cancer patients. We have dedicated €6M in funding to encourage new, imaginative healthcare delivery models.
... |
| 01.02.2023 | Jean-Marc Bourez confirmed as CEO of EIT Health | We are delighted to announce the confirmation of Jean-Marc Bourez as Chief Executive Officer of EIT Health. Jean-Marc has served as the interim CEO of EIT Health since February 2022 and has now been confirmed in his position formally.
We a... |
| 13.01.2023 | Four more EIT Health-supported start-ups gain EIC grants | A further four EIT Health-supported start-ups, who gained pan-European exposure through our Catapult programme, have received accelerator grants and equity investments from the European Innovation Council (EIC). This brings the total number... |
| 06.12.2022 | EIT Health continues to support Ukraine | Since Russia’s invasion began, EIT Health has provided tangible support to Ukraine by facilitating the supply of medical equipment and vaccines. Our focus now shifts to providing Ukrainian innovators with access to European innovation oppor... |
| 28.11.2022 | EIT Health-supported DMD available to 73M German patients | A digital assistant for musculoskeletal physical therapy, re.flex, is one of the first non-German digital medical devices (DMDs) to qualify for reimbursement under the statutory health insurance system in Germany. Committed to facilitating ... |
| 10.11.2022 | Three EIT Health Catapult alumni receive EIC grants | A new wave of deep tech start-ups will receive accelerator grants and equity investments from the European Innovation Council (EIC). The European Commission selected 75 innovative start-ups after this year’s second EIC Accelerator cut-off. ... |
| 21.10.2022 | Ochre Bio closes €30M Series A funding round | EIT Health-supported Ochre Bio has closed a Series A funding round of €30M. As a participant of our Gold Track accelerator programme, we have contributed €500K to support their development.
In 2019, chronic liver disease was the cause of o... |
| 12.10.2022 | NALA.care joins forces with L’Oréal | EIT Health-supported NALA.care has closed a partnership with cosmetics and beauty leader, L’Oréal. This is an enormous step for the company on its way to enabling eczema patients to live healthier and happier lives.
NALA.care offers a ‘fas... |
| 12.10.2022 | NALA.care joins forces with La Roche-Posay | EIT Health-supported NALA.care has closed a partnership with cosmetics and beauty leader, La Roche-Posay Switzerland. This is an enormous step for the company on its way to enabling eczema patients to live healthier and happier lives.
NALA... |
| 11.10.2022 | Leuko closes €5M Series A round | EIT Health-supported start-up Leuko has closed a Series A funding of €5 million. The new funding will be used to accelerate clinical trials to obtain regulatory approval in collaboration with leading cancer centres, including Boston Medical... |
| 06.10.2022 | EIT Health appoints three new Supervisory Board members | We are pleased to announce the inauguration of three new Supervisory Board members following their recent confirmation at the EIT Health Partner Assembly in September.
The EIT Health Supervisory Board plays a vital role in our organisation... |
| 30.09.2022 | Crises spur need to bridge the innovation gap in Europe | As we come together as a community to face new political and economic instability and handle the aftermath of the global pandemic, we must continue to develop and realise the full potential of healthcare innovation across Europe. This requi... |
| 29.09.2022 | EIT Health drives digitalisation in cardiovascular care | Today we recognise World Heart Day by highlighting the ongoing need to facilitate the widespread adoption of digital medical devices (DMDs) to unlock more efficient and effective treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD) across Europe.
Wit... |
| 27.09.2022 | 17 healthy ageing start-ups to receive funding | EIT Health, together with nine global collaborators representing nearly 50 countries and territories, today announced the winners of the third round of the Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards. The awards are part of the Healthy Longevity Glob... |
| 09.09.2022 | Pandemic underlines need for “One Health” approach | The COVID-19 pandemic led to the loss of millions of lives and hit global economies hard, underlining the need to strengthen the “One Health” approach.[1] In their manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19, the World Health Organisatio... |
| 25.08.2022 | EIT to support EIT Health for a further seven years | Following a comprehensive assessment of our strategic performance and achievements from 2015 – 2021, EIT have confirmed the partnership agreement between EIT and EIT Health will continue for a further seven years.
The assessment, which eva... |
| 08.08.2022 | Estonian healthtech start-up Antegenes raises €2.3M | EIT Health-supported start-up, Antegenes, has raised €2.3 million in funding to bring its innovative genetic tests for personalised cancer prevention into broader use in healthcare, scale the team and expand to new foreign markets. Funding ... |
| 29.07.2022 | EU DMD taskforce seeks advisory board members | EIT Health has today launched a call for candidates for the external advisory group to the European Taskforce for Harmonised Evaluation of Digital Medical Devices (DMDs). The taskforce pursues the goal of harmonising evaluation procedures f... |
| 28.07.2022 | WildCard winner iLoF secures further $5M | Leading digital health company, iLoF, has received $5M in funding to accelerate its mission of democratising access to personalised medicine for millions of people living with complex diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Previous EIT Hea... |
| 25.07.2022 | Ganymed Robotics raises €21M for global expansion | Ganymed Robotics, a developer of computer vision software and robotics technologies for orthopaedic surgeons, has raised €21 million in the first close of its Series B funding. The round was led by Cathay Health, with the participation of C... |
| 15.07.2022 | EIT Health-supported Idoven raises €18.5M | Idoven, an EIT Health-supported start-up, has successfully raised €18.5M in funds. The Madrid-based healthtech company, specialising in early detection and precision treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD), will use the funding to continu... |
| 11.07.2022 | EIT Health-supported Diabeloop raises €70M | Diabeloop, a key player in therapeutic artificial intelligence (AI) applied to insulin delivery, has announced a new financing round of €70 million to accelerate its international expansion. The Grenoble-based start-up was created in 2015 b... |
| 15.06.2022 | EIT Health-supported Limula raises €4.7M | EIT Health-supported start-up, Limula, has been awarded a €4.7M pathfinder grant by the European Innovation Council (EIC) for the development of a modular cell and gene therapy manufacturing platform.
The team announced that they received ... |
| 14.06.2022 | EIT Health-supported Limula raises €4.7M | EIT Health-supported start-up, Limula, has been awarded a €4.7M pathfinder grant by the European Innovation Council (EIC) for the development of a modular cell and gene therapy manufacturing platform.
The team announced that they received ... |
| 10.06.2022 | 42 start-ups through to Catapult 2022-23 semifinals | We are excited to today announce the 42 promising start-ups that will go through to the semifinals of EIT Health Catapult 2022-23. Each year, the competition showcases Europe’s most promising biotech, medtech and digital health start-ups to... |
| 31.05.2022 | 29 start-ups selected for Bridgehead 2022 | Twenty-nine scale-ups developing diverse healthcare technologies – from medical imaging to exoskeletons – will start their Bridgehead journey with EIT Health this year. Those selected for the 2022 Bridgehead programme will receive tailor-ma... |
| 30.05.2022 | Pandemic spurs move to increased patient centricity: Is it here to stay? | The rapid changes that COVID-19 necessitated have accelerated both the democratisation and decentralisation of health, while bringing patient centricity to the fore, say expert speakers at the EIT Health Summit 2022. But how European health... |
| 27.05.2022 | EIT Health Catapult 2021-22 names winners | This year’s EIT Health Catapult competition crowned Ebenbuild, Leuko and SolasCure as champions at the EIT Health Summit. The Catapult competition looks to boost the development of European health start-ups by exposing them to world-class e... |
| 04.05.2022 | Five Lives and Neurocast win the first ‘neurotechprize’ | Together with Biogen, we are proud to announce the winners of the first ‘neurotechprize’, a new programme designed to rapidly identify technological solutions to the growing challenge of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).
French start-up, Five Live... |
| 29.04.2022 | EIT Health-supported IMPLICITY raises €21M | IMPLICITY®, a leader in remote patient monitoring and cardiac data management solutions, announced yesterday that it has raised €21 million in Series A funding led by new investors: Crédit Mutuel Innovation and Bpifrance.
IMPLICITY’s Europ... |
| 13.04.2022 | First annual Bits & Pretzels HealthTech announced | EIT Health is proud to announce that, together with our partner Roche, we have become founding partners in Bits & Pretzels HealthTech Conference, a new annual event that puts healthtech start-ups at its core.
The event will bring toget... |
| 05.04.2022 | EIT Health-supported Optellum attains CE mark | EIT Health-supported start-up, Optellum, headquartered in Oxford, UK, has attained a CE mark for its innovative solution which supports the precision diagnosis of lung cancer in its earliest stages. Their technology, the Virtual Nodule Clin... |
| 04.04.2022 | Call for tech giants to back talent crunch initiative | EIT Health is seeking to partner with industry and tech giants in a Europe-wide initiative to secure new talent and prepare the healthcare sector for the future. We are launching the WorkInHealth Foundation to address fears of a labour shor... |
| 01.04.2022 | EIT Health calls for Supervisory Board members | EIT Health is seeking candidates with leadership experience in the health sector in Europe to serve as new independent members of the Supervisory Board, which is a non-operational board overseeing the management of the organisation. There a... |
| 28.03.2022 | Institut Mérieux joins Venture Centre of Excellence | Institut Mérieux, a group of companies that EIT Health partner bioMérieux is part of, has joined the Venture Centre of Excellence (VCoE). By subscribing to the financial vehicle of VCoE, Institut Mérieux joins numerous corporate members and... |
| 22.03.2022 | Amer Yazbek appointed as Chief Financial Officer | We are pleased to announce that Amer Yazbek will be taking up the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at EIT Health. Amer joined EIT Health in November 2021 as our Finance Director, and in that short time has played a key role in help... |
| 22.03.2022 | MOWOOT raises €1M in first tranche of Series A | EIT Health-supported MOWOOT, who make a novel non-drug and non-invasive therapy for intestinal transit disorders, has raised €1M in the first tranche of their Series A investment round. This comes after they obtained a European patent for t... |
| 18.03.2022 | Hearts Radiant closes €2.4M funding round | EIT Health-supported Spanish start-up, Hearts Radiant, has successfully closed a €2.4M investment round. The funding round was led by Ship2B Ventures through BSocial Impact Fund, co-invested by the European Investment Fund and Banco Sabadel... |
| 23.02.2022 | Healthy Mind raises €1M to help patients with anxiety | Healthy Mind, an EIT Health-supported French start-up, has raised €1M with business accelerator, Axeltim. Healthy Mind offers healthcare professionals a medical device to reduce presurgery anxiety and pain. It combines immersion through VR ... |
| 21.02.2022 | Climedo closes €5M seed financing round | EIT Health-supported start-up, Climedo, has received €5 million in a seed financing round. They plan to use the funds to expand their market reach in Europe and further develop their software solution. The lead investor is pan-European VC f... |
| 17.02.2022 | Jaume Puig wins HIMSS Global Patient Innovator Award | Jaume Puig, Founder and CEO of Biel Glasses, has been awarded the HIMSS Global Patient Innovator Award, in recognition of his efforts to improve the lives of patients experiencing low vision. Biel Glasses develops smart glasses that allow p... |
| 14.02.2022 | Orthox closes €11M in Series A funding | Orthox Ltd, an EIT Health-supported start-up based in the UK, has raised in excess of €11M ($12.5M ) at the close of its Series A financing round. Orthox develops medical devices to repair damaged cartilage and other orthopaedic injuries. L... |
| 10.02.2022 | CroíValve raises €8M in Series A funding round | EIT Health-supported start-up CroíValve has raised €8 million in Series A investment, led by Halo Business Angel Network (HBAN) MedTech and Irrus Syndicates, among others. Dublin-based CroíValve is a medtech start-up that provides a minimal... |
| 08.02.2022 | New event partnership advances High Value Care agenda | We are proud to announce that we are working with the Value Institute for Health and Care on the Redefining Health Care Summit 2022, set to take place in Barcelona this April. This strategic partnership furthers our work to support the impl... |
| 07.02.2022 | 10 start-ups progress to finals of neurotechprize | After pre-selection by the jury, ten start-ups have been selected to progress to the finals of neurotechprize, run by EIT Health and Biogen. These promising start-ups from across Europe and beyond, will now take the next step in the search ... |
| 07.02.2022 | Platform shows strong results for diabetes prevention | Data has shown that the EIT Health-supported type 2 diabetes prevention platform, Health Integrator, significantly reduces elevated blood sugar in people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Health Integrator, is an innovative platform t... |
| 04.02.2022 | EIT Health joins call to ‘Close the Care Gap’ on cancer | Today we mark World Cancer Day by vowing to back more innovative technologies that can help to support early screening and diagnosis of cancer in a bid to ‘Close the Care Gap’ and help provide equitable care for all.
This year’s World Canc... |
| 04.02.2022 | Cristina Bescos announced as Director of Innovation | We are proud to announce Cristina Bescos, Managing Director of EIT Health Spain since 2019, as our new Director of Innovation. In her new role, Cristina will lead the strategic development of EIT Health’s innovation projects, together with ... |
| 31.01.2022 | Registration opens for EIT Health Summit 2022 | We are happy to announce that registration has opened for the EIT Health Summit 2022, which will take place from 24th – 25th May 2022 at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
More than ever, the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the need f... |
| 08.12.2021 | 1,750 professionals ready to embrace AI in healthcare
| This year, EIT Health introduced two unique programmes to improve medical students’ and healthcare experts’ understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI): HelloAI RIS and HelloAI Professional. The programme series bridges the gap between he... |
| 08.12.2021 | MOWOOT launches pan-EU fundraising campaign | EIT Health-supported start-up, MOWOOT, has launched a fundraising campaign with a goal of two million Euros to expand their global market reach. Investors can support the start-up on two pan-European investment platforms: EIT Health´s own d... |
| 08.12.2021 | SYNCSENSE wins Danish AI award | With an intelligent AI-driven motion sensor and a VR platform, SYNCSENSE transforms exercise into an engaging and adaptive ‘exergaming’ experience. Last week, this innovative EIT Health-supported start-up won a Danish AI award.
‘Exergaming... |
| 06.12.2021 | 21 start-ups reach EIT Health Catapult Final | Twenty-one start-ups from across Europe have secured their places at the EIT Health Catapult Final. The finalists represent the most promising European start-ups across biotech, medtech and digital health.
The EIT Health Catapult, currentl... |
| 06.12.2021 | EIT Health partners unite to advance lung cancer diagnosis | EIT Health partners, GE Healthcare and Optellum, have joined forces to advance lung cancer diagnosis with artificial intelligence (AI). They recently signed a letter of intent to collaborate to advance precision diagnosis and treatment of l... |
| 26.11.2021 | EHDS report connects innovators and European Commission | On November 18th, 70 attendees and speakers met to discuss making a fit for purpose European Health Data Space (EHDS), one of the European Commission’s priorities for 2019-2025. Our event marked the launch of EIT Health’s new Think Tank rep... |
| 25.11.2021 | EIT HEI Initiative launches new call for proposals | The EIT’s HEI Initiative has recently launched its second call for proposals. The initiative aims to help higher education institutions (HEIs) to design activities that will improve their entrepreneurial and innovation capacity.
Boosting i... |
| 18.11.2021 | First partner meeting ahead of Austrian hub launch | Today, the partners of the newly created EIT Health Regional Innovation Hub in Austria met for the first time in their new Vienna-based location, to advance decisions ahead of its official opening in January 2022.
During the meeting, the g... |
| 28.10.2021 | Commissioner Gabriel visits EIT community | Today, the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Mariya Gabriel, visited the headquarters of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) to discuss the role of the EIT in strengthening E... |
| 12.10.2021 | EIT Health wins at the 2021 Association Excellence Awards | Last week, EIT Health won a silver award for the ‘Making Connections’ platform at the 2021 Association Excellence Awards in the ‘Best Digital Marketing’ category.
Launched early in the pandemic, the Making Connections platform was designed... |
| 05.10.2021 | VCoE to make €1.7b available for life science investment | During the first day of the Health Tech Innovation Days event in Paris, France, Alain Godard, European Investment Fund CEO; Jan-Philipp Beck, EIT Health CEO; and Jean-Marc Bourez EIT Health France Managing Director, announced that the Ventu... |
| 28.09.2021 | EIT Health announces new Supervisory Board | EIT Health is pleased to announce the inauguration of our new Supervisory Board. Following their recent confirmation at the EIT Health Partner Assembly in September, we welcome five new members to the Board, including new Chairwoman, Lisa S... |
| 22.09.2021 | 21 start-ups selected to innovate for healthy ageing | The awards are part of the Healthy Longevity Global Competition – a multiyear, multimillion-dollar international competition seeking breakthrough innovations to extend human health and function later in life.
Founded by the U.S. National A... |
| 19.08.2021 | EIT Health to welcome 6 new partners in live event | For the second time this year, EIT Health will be welcoming new partners to its extensive network of healthcare innovators.
The four new partners, Hospices Civiles de Lyon (HCL) from France, Novartis, Norwegian University of Science and Te... |
| 10.06.2021 | EIT Health partners Warsaw Health Innovation Hub | EIT Health has partnered with the Polish government and industry leaders as part of the Warsaw Health Innovation Hub.
The open innovation initiative was launched by the polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, at the Medical Research Age... |
| 28.05.2021 | Will COVID-19 spark a cancer vaccine boom? | The field of DNA vaccines is developing rapidly, particularly in the context of COVID-19, which has seen a number of DNA vaccine candidates go to trial. One such vaccine is COVID eVax by Italian start-up, Takis Biotech.
Initially grounded ... |
| 21.05.2021 | EIT Health alumni awarded €3M by EIC | Two EIT Health supported start-ups, Tada Medical and Gasgon Medical, make up part of a consortium of 5 European partners which has been awarded €3 million grant funding by the European Innovation Council (EIC) through its Fast Track to Inno... |
| 19.05.2021 | EIT Health’s S4DX raises €5M to digitise blood sampling | Today, EIT Health-backed S4DX has announced the successful closing of five million euros in series A fundraising.
The funding comes from private investors including SARSTEDT AG & Co. KG, as well as the EIC Fund, established in 2020 by ... |
| 14.05.2021 | EIT Health supported Sleepiz AG secures EUROSTAR grant | Sleepiz AG, a Swiss medical technology start-up, have announced that it has received $500k funding to enable the future of sleep diagnostics through novel three-dimensional radar technology.
Funded by the European Union’s HORIZON 2020 EURO... |
| 30.04.2021 | EIT Health selecting three Supervisory Board members | EIT Health is seeking candidates with leadership experience in the health sector in Europe to serve as independent members of our Supervisory Board, which is a non-operational board overseeing the management of EIT Health. There are current... |
| 22.04.2021 | EIT Health supported Optellum in AI world-first |
Optellum, an Oxford-based lung health technology company, which has been supported by EIT Health, is marking a world’s-first in achieving FDA clearance for the application of artificial intelligence (AI) decision support in lung cancer di... |
| 21.04.2021 | EIT Health-supported Clinomic raises €7 million | Germany-based start-up, Clinomic, has announced successfully closing their latest funding round with a total of seven million euros.
Clinomic, which has been supported by various EIT Health activities, is developing a new solution to revol... |
| 21.04.2021 | EIT Health-entrepreneur on Medicine’s Maker ‘Power List’ | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Ilya Pharma, Evelina Vågesjö, has been named this month amongst 19 others within the Medicine’s Maker Power List 2021 for Advanced Medicine.
The Annual Medicine’s Maker Power List is an internation... |
| 09.04.2021 | EIT Health-supported start-up raises $10m | EIT Health-supported start-up, Oxford Endovascular has just raised $10m in a series A funding round.
The Oxford University spin-out, is developing a treatment for brain aneurysms that will overcome challenges with existing medical devices.... |
| 08.04.2021 | Peptomyc start human trials of ‘universal cancer therapy’ | April 2021 will see the first cancer patients treated with a Myc inhibitor in a clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of this novel therapy.
Building on the proven preclinical efficacy and safety of the Omomyc cell-penetrating m... |
| 31.03.2021 | EIT Health and BioMed Alliance join forces | Today, EIT Health and the Biomedical Alliance in Europe (BioMed Alliance) announce the signing of an MoU signaling moves towards closer collaboration between the healthcare innovation sector and leading medical societies across Europe.
The... |
