Connecting Life Sciences
Highlights 01/2015
Future Hospital Trend: Fully Automated Blood Analyses
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Life Science City Vienna: Broad Expertise in Cancer Research
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Invest in Vienna Vienna is a great place to live, but is also great for revolutionizing technologies and innovative services as well as promising products for the future. Interested in investing in Vienna? Keep an eye on the inspiring opportunities we present below! LISAvienna is happy to introduce you to the people in charge. CVTec Cerebrovascular Technologies GmbH develops software for neurosurgery and neuroradiology to improve life-saving operations like the filling of cerebral aneurysms to avoid ruptures. The first product, CoilControl3D, an occlusion rate measurement system, will be available soon. EMTensor GmbH develops compact-size devices, information processing systems and services, which will lead to a breakthrough in early stroke recognition. The proactive and preventive approach uses the properties of how electromagnetic waves spread in tissues for medical imaging. EveliQure Biotechnologies GmbH develops vaccines to combat diarrheal diseases. The company’s technology platform is based on a live attenuated Shigella vaccine strain able to induce broad protection against shigellosis. It is suitable for expression of diarrheal antigens from other pathogens. INOXIA Lifesciences GmbH focuses on peroxidase inhibitor development for the treat-
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ment of autoenzyme-induced diseases such as bronchial asthma and Ulcerative colitis. Computer-aided drug design led to the discovery of a substance group with block buster potential. MITI Biosystems GmbH is specialized in the production of polycyclic peptide libraries for the discovery of peptide drugs and mimotopes. Randomization techniques are applied to natural product peptide scaffolds in order to achieve enormously broad chemical diversity. mySugr Inc. specializes in diabetes education and management. FDA approved, CE marked mobile applications, video based trainings and remote coachings for children appreciated by over 200.000 people worldwide prove that everyday needs of people with diabetes can be combined with style, innovation and even fun.
ORIGIMM Biotechnology GmbH offers a better way to select highly protective antigens for vaccine production. Its protection-based vaccine discovery platform is available for partnering and applied for the development of the world wide first therapeutic vaccine against acne vulgaris. Continue on page 3 www.cvtec.at www.emtensor.com www.eveliqure.com www.inoxia.at www.mitibio.com www.mysugr.com www.origimm.com