The Department for Economic Development, Sustainability and the Environment has launched 68 grant schemes for a total of €430 million intended for Basque SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises), to enable the region’s economy to drive the Basque Country forward. The Basque Government’s primary goal with these grants is to reactivate the economy and create employment, and…
The Basque bio-pharmaceutical company Histocell and the Cardiva Group, both members of the Basque Health Cluster, have joined forces to launch the innovative wound healing product Reoxcare across the whole Spanish healthcare system. The Basque bio-pharmaceutical company Histocell, specialising in regenerative medicine, is the developer and manufacturer of Reoxcare, the antioxidant treatment using natural ingredients for healing chronic…
On 14 January the Basque Health Cluster met with the Regional Councillor for Health, Gotzone Sagardui. The representatives for the Health Cluster were President Mikel Alvarez, Vicepresident Julio Font and Secretary/Treasurer Asier Albizu, alongside Basque Health Cluster Managing Director María Pascual de Zulueta. This working meeting examined critical development factors for businesses in this sector,…
This year, the 6th Bio-health industry meeting for New Aquitaine/Basque Country/Navarre will be held virtually in Bordeaux as a satellite event of the Meet2Win convention. Full information HERE The purpose of the Meetings is to promote cross-border projects with collaboration between industries and researchers from public and private organisations in the health sector from…
The two companies, representatives of diagnosis solutions based on metabolomic technology, have signed a collaboration agreement to strengthen R&D in the sector. The Basque biotechnology firm OWL will contribute know-how in the creation of non-invasive diagnosis solutions for Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH). The goal is to encourage the use of metabolomic technology in the research and…
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Basque Health Cluster, we interviewed a number of members about the challenges the cluster will face in the future. Video in Spanish:
This Tuesday, 29/12/2020, the Basque Government approved the first version of the programme Euskadi Next 21-26, for the recovery, transformation and resilience of Euskadi. The Basque Government has drawn up the programme Euskadi Next 21-26 in collaboration with the provincial and local authorities of the three Basque regions, for submission to the Central Government for it to be included in…
The PRAP EUSKADI initiative is now available for companies interested in monitoring the incidence of COVID-19 within their organisation. PRAP EUSKADI is an initiative supported by the Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and the Environment of the Basque Government intended to minimise the economic impact that companies in the Basque Country may suffer due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It…
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Basque Health Cluster, we interviewed representatives of our members to explain their contributions to the cluster and how they view the cluster in the future. Here there are their answers!
The e-Health firm AcceXible, a member of the Basque Health Cluster, has won the Expansión newspaper award in the Health and Biotechnology category sponsored by Novartis-Sandoz. AcceXible has developed a clinically-proven platform that enables the detection and monitoring of mild cognitive deterioration and dementia though speech analysis. The technology of this start-up from Biscay and…
