With the rise of interest in protection against pathogens caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant increase in the demand for antibacterial and antiviral surfaces and coatings as one of the mechanisms to prevent their spread. CIDETEC Surface Engineering is leading the ‘Frontiers 2021’ project, promoting research in this field. The project…
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The Ada Byron Award will celebrate its 9th edition this year. Nominations can be submitted until 22nd of April. The University of Deusto has been organising this award since 2014 and it has Microsoft as Gold Sponsor and the support of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, Danobatgroup and Emakunde (Basque Women’s Institute); and the collaboration…
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Oncomatryx, a start-up member of the Basque Health Cluster, has started the year by raising 15 million euros to carry out phase I clinical trials. In addition to its existing shareholders, including BBK and Ekarpen (with the participation of Kutxabank, the Basque Government, the three provincial councils and Mondragón Inversiones), the company has managed to…
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The BIKAINTEK 2022 call will be open until the 29th of April. In the BOPV published on the 2nd of March, we can find the terms and conditions of this aid programe under the umbrella of the Science, Technology and Innovation Plan-PCTI Euskadi 2030, which seeks to help the development of R&D projects through the…
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SAFE-N-MEDTECH – Safety testing in the life cycle of nanotechnology-enabled medical technologies for health – is an international project focused on enabling the safe translation of nano-enabled medical technologies form Proof of Concept to markets and clinical practice. It is a H2020 funded project (Grant Agreement No. 814607) of the European Union. Among the 28…
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The Agile System local logistics solution optimizes medical device inventory management processes The healthcare sector is currently facing major development and innovation challenges, so it is vital that it faces a digital transformation. This is one of the main messages of the session ‘Leadership 4.0. Strategy development in digital transformation’, an event organized by Cardiva…
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MODIFICATION TO THE STRATEGIC ACTION IN HEALTH 2021-2023 In the middle of last month, the government presented the 15 calls for Strategic Action in Health (AES) that will be opened throughout the year, as well as several extraordinary ones in the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. On 22nd of February, an amendment…
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Our member e-Process Med has obtained funding from the Consejería de Salud y Familias of Andalusia. The project, entitled “D&SAI: Artificial Intelligence-based COVID screening and diagnosis”, was one of the six projects funded by the Andalusian regional government last year. e-Process Med will collaborate with the Andalusian public health system to obtain a fast and…
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On 15 February, the Basque Health Cluster, together with members Innoprot, Bexen medical and Biolan Health, explained the situation of the sector and the changes brought about by the pandemic. In the programme Hoy por Hoy, presented by Azul Tejerina Suárez, Maria Pascual de Zulueta, managing director of Basque Health Cluster, taked about hoe the…
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Basque Health Cluster organizes an intensive course on the new Regulations for medical devices (MD) and in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVD) under the new European Regulations (EU) 2017/745 and 2017/746 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2017 on this type of products. The entry into force of the new…
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