EIT Health funds three projects by professors and students of the University of Barcelona
EIT Health Spain closed its first year of activity on December 15, with an event at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) chaired by the president of the association, Jordi Alberch, gathering representatives of all the partners of the consortium as well as related institutions to the activity of this network.
EIT Health Spain closed its first year of activity on December 15, with an event at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) chaired by the president of the association, Jordi Alberch, gathering representatives of all the partners of the consortium as well as related institutions to the activity of this network.
Two projects of the University of Barcelona received aids aimed at innovative business projects and ideas in the field of health sciences. Two graduated students of the first promotion of the bachelor degree in Biomedical Engineering were honoured with the Summer School Award 2016.
Awards for the best innovation and entrepreneurship projects
The Proof of Concept (PoC) awards, aimed at projects that are in stages prior to the creation of a business, gave two distinctions to two initiatives by researchers of the University of Barcelona, with a financial aid of 25.000 euros each. One is a project led by Francesc Rabanal, professor at the Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, to develop new antibiotics based on polymixins to fight multi-resistant bacteria; the other is sEHIAPInf project, directed by Santiago Vázquez, from the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Chemistry, about the use of inhibitors of soluble hydrolase epoxide (sEH) to treat acute pancreatitis.
App to connect patients with rare cancer
Ana Rodríguez and Meritxell Ascanio, graduated students of the first promotion of the bachelor degree in Biomedical Engineering, received the Summer School Award 2016 for the project called RareCanConnect, an app that had already been awarded with the first prize of EIT Health Summer School on Rare Cancer, given in November.
EIT Health consortium set a project on rare cancer aiming to find solutions aimed at the needs of the patients with these cancers, ill people without the common diagnoses and treatments. The app RareCanConnect eenables connecting the patients with a rare cancer with the medical staff who takes care of them. The award includes the funding of the project and entrance to the accelerator of EIT Health.
About EIT Health
EIT Health is a consortium made of more than 50 partners and 90 members aiming to increase the competitiveness of the European health industry. Among the members of the consortium, in which fourteen European countries take part, there is the University of Barcelona and Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, which supported the researchers when submitting their applications.