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dacadoo Health Score Application Now Available for New Samsung Gear 2 ‘dacadoo’ have announced that their innovative and award winning Health Score Platform is now available for the new Samsung Gear 2. Launched at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the next generation Samsung Gear 2 will come pre-installed with the dacadoo Health Score application. The dacadoo application is optimised for the Samsung Gear 2 as a mini version of its comprehensive dacadoo health and wellbeing platform. With the dacadoo app, users will be able to see their personalised Health Score, an overall measure of health and well-being, based on their body metrics, lifestyle and activity. Peter Ohnemus, President and CEO of dacadoo AG, shared: “dacadoo is very proud to announce this major partnership with Samsung Electronics, the leading worldwide producer of mobile wireless devices. Bringing the dacadoo mini-application onto the new Samsung Gear 2, we expect to increase the visibility of the dacadoo Health Score concept worldwide”. The dacadoo Health Score web platform and the dacadoo mobile applications enable people to track, document and benchmark their health and wellbeing in real-time in an easy and fun way. dacadoo gives users a personal Health Score from 1 (low) to 1,000 (high), which moves up or down depending on how the body, emotional wellbeing, and activ-
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ities (exercise, nutrition, stress and sleep) change. The Health Score is based on “big data” with several tens of millions of personyears of clinical data and incorporates many of the well-known cardio cerebrovascular risk studies and quality of life assessment tools. dacadoo systematically applies techniques from the gaming industry, group dynamics from social networks and provides relevant lifestyle feedback to users to engage and motivate them to use the Health Score Platform regularly and thereby adopt a healthier lifestyle. More information can be found at: www.dacadoo.com
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Johnson & Johnson Innovation Establishes Network of Partnering Offices in UK Johnson & Johnson Innovation, London, have announced the formation of a network of partnering offices across UK life science clusters. The offices function as extensions of its London Innovation Centre to work with academics and entrepreneurs throughout the UK to identify early stage innovation and support the translation of research into new products for patients. While the London Innovation Centre continues to be the primary hub for interactions with the academic and entrepreneurial community in the
greater London area, these new partnering offices are part of a broader strategy to interact more directly with life science “hotspots” throughout the UK and Europe. Johnson & Johnson Innovation is establishing partnering offices in the following locations that will function as a base for interactions throughout the regions: »
Babraham Research Campus for the wider Cambridge area
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» University of Oxford Old Road Campus for the wider Oxford area » The University of Manchester Innovation Centre (UMIC) for the North and Midlands » Edinburgh BioQuarter for Scotland and Northern Ireland » Life Sciences Hub Wales in Cardiff for Wales and the South West.
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Re p r e s e n t a t ive s from the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Centre in London will establish a regular presence in each of the part-
nering offices that are expected to be fully operational in early 2014. “Establishing these partnering offices reflects our commitment to collaborative innovation and our belief that being close to the source of innovation drives our ability to create strong networks of people who can combine ideas, resources and technologies in a new way to tackle urgent unmet medical needs,” commented Patrick Verheyen, head of the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Centre, London. “Opening these new partnering offices extends the approach we piloted with Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC) earlier this year,” commented Dr. Kurt Hertogs, Incubator Strategy Leader for the Johnson & Johnson Innovation, London. “Our continuing experience with SBC confirms this model as an effective way for our scientific teams to interact with innovators and entrepreneurs, and advance promising healthcare solutions. Given the number and diversity of research campuses, incubators, and life science parks throughout the UK and Europe, we believe the establishing of these regional partnering offices will enable us to reach out and more effectively collaborate with innovators across the UK and Europe.” Johnson & Johnson Innovation provides scientists; entrepreneurs and emerging companies focused on early stage opportunities a one-stop access to science and technology experts who can facilitate collaborations across the pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics and consumer companies of Johnson & Johnson.
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