🔬 Got an idea for a healthcare innovation?Join @MCSC Hospital Leadership Innovation! MCSC is a prestigious competition that brings together startups, research teams, and hospital leaders with one goal: to shape the future of modern medicine. This year, we’re looking for solutions in the areas of:✅ hospital automation and management,✅ data analytics and decision support,✅ …
The Medical University of Gdańsk has been invited to participate in a new nationwide initiative supporting collaboration between the scientific community and European corporations. The #EUInnovateTogether program, created by the Agreement of Academic Technology Transfer Centers (PACTT) and the Agreement of Special Purpose Entities (PSC), is the result of over a year of discussions with …
This year’s special 10th-anniversary edition Impact CEE 2025 was truly inspiring. I had the opportunity to listen to thought-provoking debates on Europe’s competitiveness, building technological advantage through AI, and the role of courage in driving innovation. A highlight was the fascinating lecture by Prof. Anna Lemke (Stanford University) on balancing pleasure and pain in human behavior. Other …
EIT Health InnoStars Connect is an open innovation and challenge-based collaboration programme that connects EIT Health InnoStars partners (challenge owners) with European healthcare stakeholders (startups, hospitals, universities, and SMEs) to address real-world healthcare challenges. A total of 10 teams will be selected through the call. Challenges proposed by programme partners:• Chiesi Group Challenge 1: Help …
In the medical industry, innovation is not enough. Even the most advanced and cutting-edge technology can prove useless if it doesn’t address the real needs of its users — both patients and medical staff. This is where the key concept of product-market fit comes in. Product-market fit refers to aligning a product with the market …
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The PACTT Foundation – a network of 100 technology transfer centers operating at universities and research institutes across Poland – has partnered with the Latvian accelerator Commercialization Reactor to launch a nationwide support program for researchers working on Deep Tech commercialization. The program offers: 🗓 The first call is open until May 30, 2025, and …
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EIT Health was established in 2015 as a „Knowledge and Innovation Community” (KIC) within the framework of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). The EIT consists of various KICs, each focusing on a different sector or area of innovation – in this case, health and societal ageing. The idea behind the EIT KICs …
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The distribution of profits from commercialization, as stipulated in the Regulations on the Management of Copyrights and Related Rights, Industrial Property Rights, and Commercialization Principles at the Medical University of Gdańsk, which is Annex No. 1 to Resolution No. 48/2017 of the MUG Senate dated November 27, 2017, is as follows: Why Does the University …
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The European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) has announced a tender under the EU4Health program for: 🚀 Development of a Rapid, Portable Medical Device for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) 🚀 The goal is to create a device that provides AST results within one hour of sample collection and, ideally, also identifies pathogens responsible for …
The commercialization of medical innovations requires more than just great ideas—it demands collaboration with the right partners. Whether developing a new medical device, therapy, or diagnostic technology, establishing strong industry connections is crucial for success. At the Medical University of Gdańsk, the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) facilitates partnerships with industry to support the further development …