Stroke Pad

2016-11-16T22:14:22+01:00

Suffering a stroke is a great misfortune. In Germany, there are 270,000 stroke patients every year. 100,000 of those die. That makes strokes the third most common cause of death in Germany. One major problem is that the patient has to be treated within a timeframe of 4½ hours. Every moment is important to save [...]

Stroke App

2017-04-24T17:06:33+02:00

In Germany alone, 270.000 people per year suffer a stroke. The stroke unit admission doctor works under tremendous pressure and cannot keep in mind the complex inclusion criteria of the many available clinical trials. Thus, inclusion windows are often missed and patients forego new treatment options. A smartphone-powered device automatically matches patients with available trials [...]

Striata Technologies

2016-11-16T22:14:23+01:00

Movies for Mice (and people) by Striata Technologies Becoming blind is a devastating fate. Luckily, today researchers are developing new treatments for blindness. This research is done mostly with mice which have the same types of blindness that can be found in humans. In order to help with this research we have developed a virtual [...]

Smart TMS Coil

2016-11-16T22:14:23+01:00

The human brain is an incredibly powerful organ: it defines who we are, our personality, our interaction with the external world and the way we perceive our surroundings. Although on the macro scale, the human brain appears to be uniform, the picture is completely different at the micro scale. Vast connections of neurons, which form [...]

PainSol

2016-11-16T22:14:24+01:00

  Have you ever envisioned a world free of pain? Chronic pain is a global concern with a worldwide prevalence of nearly 40%. It is estimated that a fifth of all people suffering from chronic pain have neuropathic pain. Chronic neuropathic pain is very difficult to manage with existing therapies. Satisfactory pain relief is not [...]

QDento

2016-11-16T22:14:24+01:00

QDento We make digital tools for dentists. Why, you ask? On average, medical practices spend over a hundred working days on resolving administrative issues each year. Doctors and dentists find a lot of their time consumed in administrative procedures instead of practicing their actual profession. This need not be the case. Qdento are producing tools […]

Excalibur

2016-11-16T22:14:24+01:00

Computer aided measurement devices are state of the art in modern laboratories. These devices get more and more complicated, increasing the need for innovative and more user friendly control software. Developing this software is specific to each device. One would expect that nowadays components exist that take away most of the developers’ work or at [...]

Monikit

2016-11-16T22:14:25+01:00

We are building a personal lifeguard for people with epilepsy. EpiLog is a wristband for all people with epilepsy and their relatives, who are in constant fear of being alone during a seizure. It is the first lifestyle-designed wearable for daily monitoring of epileptic seizures aimed to increase the quality of life for people suffering [...]

EOG Smartpatch

2016-11-16T22:14:25+01:00

Currently, 44 million people worldwide are suffering from Alzheimer’s and 10 million from Parkinson’s disease. This is not a small problem. As medicine gets better and people get older, it’s the brain diseases that matter. So, the big challenge for doctors of our generation is the early detection and better treatment of neurological diseases in [...]

Are-you-ok?

2016-11-16T22:14:25+01:00

Depression is a very serious illness. In Germany every sixth person will have it once in their life. The worst thing that can happen, is that people commit suicide. This is especially likely when they are left alone after a treatment. At the moment it takes about 6 months to get a place in residential [...]