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The IHU are public/private institutes dedicated to developing innovative technologies to deliver personalized patient care. The IHU-Strasbourg is a unique medical and surgical center dedicated to advancing the management of digestive diseases by combining the most advanced minimally invasive techniques and the latest medical imaging methods.

It is:

• A healthcare center with a clinical platform that includes state of the art hybrid operating rooms that offer personalized care and clinical research using the least invasive techniques possible;
• A research center that focuses on translational projects that can rapidly advance to the market;
• An innovations program gathering teams to design and develop instruments and procedures for the future;
• An international training center for professionals and students driven to learn the most advanced minimally invasive practices.

The Institute is a non-profit foundation designated as part of the Program ‘Investment for the Future’.

RDS (Rhythm Diagnostic Systems) is a medical device company aiming at bringing to market the first miniaturized and connected wearable medical solution for real-time monitoring of several key cardiac and respiratory parameters – MultiSense® (medical device Class IIA, CE mark in progress). It is an outstanding global solution dedicated to patient monitoring in acute stages of their clinical pathway. It is designed to facilitate patient remote monitoring and improve patient quality of life. Our Franco-American team is based in Strasbourg (France) and in Palo Alto (California, USA).

The  patented solution is based on a high-level data processing platform fed continuously by raw data from five sensors embedded in a miniaturized proprietary “patch” medical device worn by the patient. This digital solution allows continuous and high quality remote monitoring and will be the foundation of the eCAP’s e-health platform.

Tyndall National Institute is a global leading European research centre in deep tech integrated ICT (Information and Communications Technology) hardware and systems. Specialising in both electronics and photonics – materials, devices, circuits and systems. It sits on a €300 million Cork city centre campus with over 600 scientists, engineers and support staff across 59 different nationalities – Tyndall is globally leading in its core research areas of:

• Bioelectronics, Biophotonics and smart wearables for health and wellness
• Smart sensors and systems
• Optical communication systems
• Mixed signal and analog circuit design
• Microelectronic and photonic integration
• Semiconductor wafer fabrication
• Nano materials and device processing

We tackle major societal challenges through advances in scientific and engineering research from atoms to systems looking at key markets in Digital Medical Technology, Pharma, Communications, Energy, Environment and Food/Agri sector. 

We perpetuate these advances by developing new research talent in our unique innovation ecosystem, working with the world’s best research organisations and commercial partners from start-ups to global corporations.

Central to Tyndall’s mission is “delivering human and economic impact” through research excellence. We work with industry and academia to transform and build our research excellence, education of 180 PhDs,  knowledge transfer and transfer of PhDs to industry and other entities with a global reach. In 2021, Tyndall generated over €47 m in annual research income, with approximately 85% coming from competitively won contracts.

Health Care (Digital medical technology/Pharma):

Tyndall employs an ABCD model where we bring key pillars or expert building blocks together in

• Academia, 
• Business/Industry,
• Clinical,
• Design Thinking, 

to solve and innovate new solutions for the Digital health tech industry.
We are especially delighted to work with our partners in eCAP.

At Sentron Europe BV, we develop and produce sensors, sensor assemblies and complete products with our pH or pressure sensors as well as with other sensors. We have many years of experience and specific know-how for die attaching, wire bonding, encapsulating, steering and compensating the sensors. With these in-house capabilities we provide contract development and manufacturing of sensor assemblies in any shape or dimension for any kind of product.

Integer Holdings Corporation is one of the largest medical device outsource (MDO) manufacturers in the world serving the cardiac, neuromodulation, vascular and portable medical markets. Integer provides innovative, high-quality medical technologies that enhance the lives of patients worldwide. In addition, the company develops batteries for high-end niche applications in energy, military and environmental markets. Integer’s story is filled with 80 years of industry-changing innovations and exemplary manufacturing. The company’s 9,000 associates globally continue to strengthen this legacy by providing customers with unparalleled expertise, innovation and manufacturing excellence. Learn more about Integer at www.integer.net.

EnteraSense Limited is a medical device diagnostic company formed in 2015 and based in Galway, Ireland. The Company has licensed a unique technology from Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School (Partners Healthcare) which enables the company to develop devices for diagnosing Upper Gastric Bleeds.

The company was formed by Dr. Christopher Thompson, a leading clinician in gastroenterology and Donal Devery, an experienced entrepreneur with a track record in product commercialisation. Dr. Thompson is the Director of Developmental Endoscopy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Donal Devery is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in product development and technology commercialization. He understood the clinical need and identified the technical and commercial opportunity that could be achieved by bringing the product to market.

The Operating Theatre Practitioners Association of Kenya (OTPAK) is a non-profit organization that brings together all persons who are interested in improving surgery in Kenya on a voluntary basis. OTPAK has a legal and statutory obligation not to distribute profits to the individual OTPAK members or donors. All profits will be reinvested in the training of surgeons and in research activities.

OTPAK works hand in hand with the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) to link surgical trainees and trainers with the best centers in Kenya to improve training in surgery as well as providing forums for surgical teams to share experiences, challenges, lessons learnt and best practices.

In Kenya, OTPAK has established 24 accredited COSECSA training facilities, all of which are in various stages of development. Currently, COSECSA can train 60 surgeons per year and in this decade, with the current momentum; it can have adequate surgical services at all the County Hospitals in Kenya. Out of the 557 COSECSA graduates from 16 countries, Kenya has produced the highest number of graduates (184) from the year 2004-2021.

Olymed is a private gastroenterology and endoscopy clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine, specialised in flexible endoscopy. Their doctors are the first to implement the latest world medical practices in Ukraine and teach doctors from all over the country.

Betthera is a consulting company founded in the Czech Republic with the aim to provide highly specialized and expert services in Health Technology Assessment (HTA), according to the EU HTA Regulation 2021/2282. Betthera provides services for professionals involved in research, development, production, or marketing of medical devices, emerging technologies, and drugs to help them improve their innovation potential. Betthera prepares multifactorial evaluation with a special focus on market needs and potential for medical technologies. Betthera provides these services at the international level.

AMIRES, The Business Innovation Management Institute is a non-profit institute that has been founded with the goal to manage national and internal research, development, and innovation projects (R&D&I). ABIMI promotes different funding opportunities for projects, disseminates project results, organises events, as well as develops new methods of data acquisition, processing, visualization, and usability testing. The institute provides strategic and administrative support to high quality international teams to achieve their objectives and facilitates the research-industrial and research-policy making interface. ABIMI follows projects from their initiation and planning, through negotiation, execution, promotion of results, and management to the final stage, where exploitation of new technologies, products or services is facilitated. ABIMI is based in the Czech Republic but provides its services all around Europe. The institute builds its knowledge on the long and successful track record of its founding entity – AMIRES s.r.o.

The Imagination factory is a leading design and innovation consultancy specialising in physical product design and engineering. Starting with front end of innovation, joined-up strategy and insight, we follow a resource-conscious and human-centred design approach to help clients create the products of the future. Our team of engineers and industrial designers have a proven track record of delivering complex products from concept to completion.