VRPharma and the Hospital de Bellvitge collaborate in a clinical trial to assess the use of virtual reality to improve patient experience in the ICU

VRPharma is the first digital pharmacy with virtual reality (VR) content to reduce patients’ pain perception, fear and anxiety in the medical environment. This solution aims to improve the patient’s experience and care before, during and after medical treatments, with the objective of improving their emotional and mental health, ensuring a better recovery. This collaboration…

The Board of Directors approves the entry of CIC bioGUNE, Ibermática, IES Diagnostics and Nexkin as partners.

This year 2022 we are in full growth having incorporated 6 members in the first half of the year. The new partners incorporated at the last meeting on 9 June were: CIC bioGUNE, Ibermática, IES Diagnostics and Nexkin. Below is a brief description of each of the latest additions: CIC biogune The Centre for Cooperative…

Angulas Aguinaga Research Center participates in the TOLERA project

Angulas Aguinaga, manufacturer of the brands La Gula del Norte® and Krissia®, participates together with other companies, technology centres and universities in the TOLERA Project, whose objective is the development of new food proposals related to food allergy, with Ordesa being the leader of the project. Within the project, Angulas Aguinaga has worked both with…

Basque startup myDentist, among the eight selected by the accelerator Kunsen Digital Health

The Bilbao-based startup has presented in Madrid its artificial intelligence (AI) solution for the diagnosis of oral pathologies before a jury of investors and representatives of the healthcare industry. myDentist has been selected by the accelerator Kunsen Digital Health among dozens of startups in the e-health sector to present its solution based on Deep Learning…

CIC bioGUNE research breaks new ground in the use of natural products containing ortho-quinones as anticancer agents

The work, published in the journal Nature Chemistry, will allow the use of natural products that until now have been discarded due to their toxicity. Ortho-quinones are highly reactive substances that can be delivered to tumour tissues by conjugation to therapeutic antibodies safely and selectively.   Research by CIC bioGUNE, a member of the Basque…

OSASUNBERRI, a project to strengthen the health industry sector in the Basque Country

The OSASUNBERRI project has the outstanding support of the Basque Government’s Department of Economic Development.  The aim of the project is to build a close, efficient and integral health sector in the Basque Country, based on the Km 0 philosophy. Zamudio, July 20, 2022. The official signing of the Basque Government’s support for the OSASUNBERRI…

The National Centre for the Certification of Medical Devices is now a Notified Body under the MDR

It has been more than a year since Regulation 2017/745 (commonly known as MDR “Medical Devices Regulation”) came into force and since then we are facing a serious problem due to the significant reduction in the number of Notified Bodies. The tightening of the requirements and the shortage of certifying bodies means that we are…