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Development of Body Exoskeleton

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Jung-Tang Huang, PhD, Po-Hsiang Chuang, MS (student), En-Yu Lin, MS (student), Chih-Ming Chuang, MS (student), Pei-Ying Chang (undergraduate), Pei-En Wu (undergraduate), Chien-Hsun Wang (undergraduate), Ping-Lun Tsai (undergraduate) | National Taipei …

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Mechanism of Gut Microbiota-Regulated Cardiac Repair After Infarction in Aged Mice

Patrick C.H. Hsieh, MD, PhD, Byron Chen, PhD | Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2020 Myocardial infarction (MI) remains the leading cause of mortality across all industrialized nations and the mortality rate of patients suffering from acute MI increases with age.…

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Targeting Dietary Restriction-Associated Gut Microbiota to Prevent and Treat Age-Related Cognitive Decline

Pei-Yu Wang, PhD | Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and Wei-Sheng Lin, MD | Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
Competition Sponsor: Academia Sinica
Awardee Year: 2020 Cognitive decline is a critical health and social issue…

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F. van Hellenberg Hubar, MSc | Wolk
Competition Sponsor: EIT Health of the European Union
Awardee Year: 2020
Hip fracture is the most serious consequence of osteoporosis globally due to its complications (chronic pain, disability, diminished quality of life, and premature death). More than 620,000 elderly people break their hip…

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Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Cardiovascular Diseases

Manuel Marina Breysse, MD, MSc, José María Lillo Castellano, PhD, Carlos Lizcano de Amoroto, MSc, and Beatriz Sanau Hornero, MSc | IDOVEN
Competition Sponsor: EIT Health
Awardee Year: 2020 Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death globally. The WHO estimates 17.9 million fatal CVDs in 2016, representing 31%…

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BOCAhealth, the Body Fluid Management Company of the Future

Dr. Alessandro Faragli, Dr. Edoardo La Porta, Lorenzo Estienne, Marco Mezzadra, and Dr. Ing. Davide Bianchi | BOCAhealthcare GmbH
Competition Sponsor: EIT Health
Awardee Year: 2020 The vision of BOCAhealth is to improve the quality of life and to reduce the mortality of chronic ill patients at high risk such…

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The CapBuster Medical Device to Unblock Chronic Total Occlusions

Brendan McLaughlin and Robert Pendlebury, PhD | Praxis Medical Devices Ltd
Competition Sponsor: EIT Health
Awardee Year: 2020 A chronic total occlusion (CTO) is a complete blockage of an artery. Attempts to unblock CTO’s have been plagued with difficulties because of their complexity and lack of adequate devices for the…

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A flow-directed delivery device with bioresorbable particles for treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis that eliminates chronic pain, slows the progression of the disease & avoids knee replacement surgery

Dr. Liam Farrissey, Joan McCabe, Shelly Moloney, and Dr. Brendan Cunniffe | CrannMed Limited
Competition Sponsor: EIT Health
Awardee Year: 2020 CrannMed is focused on the treatment of chronic pain associated with Knee Osteoarthritis, the 4th leading cause of disability worldwide. The disease has a very high prevalence rate, effecting…

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Flash-Heal

Janus Beierholm, MSc, and Otto Ømann | VulCur MedTech
Competition Sponsor: EIT Health
Awardee Year: 2020 Chronic wounds result in an amputation every 30 seconds and is accounting for 2-4% of the total healthcare expenses in the Nordics. These wounds are closely linked to diabetes and therefore hit the American…

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Foren Method

Charo Ortín, PhD, Guillermo Pérez del Pulgar, PhD, Maria Cayón, and Rafael Naveiro | Foren Project S.L.
Competition Sponsor: EIT Health
Awardee Year: 2020 In Foren we have developed a disruptive multimodal and non-invasive therapeutic product to treat motor injuries caused by stroke and other motor disorders, called Foren Method.…

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