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On June 28th and 29th 2017, Nano4Imaging participated in the first edition of the MedFit meeting in Grenoble’s (France) Alpexpo. The set-up was unique in a mix of very lively panel discussions on different angles of medical device development (regulation, collaboration, investment and innovation) and was an inspiring environment and scale to meet with leading experts from corporates, VCs, serial entrepreneurs and start-ups. An inspiring mix of people and topics that deserves further extension on European level, where revitalisation of the classical MedTech meetings is welcome..
We are in the process of starting up the DELIVR consortium with Radboud Medical Centre (Nijmegen, NL), Quirem Medical BV ( NL) and ADIS (Lausanne, CH) over the next few months. The target is to further enable fully MRI guided embolization therapy for liver cancer at the same time also developing our AI supported TRACKR software to guide and position microcatheters in the liver. Device development and Machine Learning hand-in-hand to improve cancer therapy! Anticipated start is August 1st 2022, and we are still hiring a machine learning specialist to extend our team.
EuroCMR 2017 in Prague was attended by 1022 participants, which was another 35 % rise over Florence last year.The meeting was between 25- 27th of May and hosted by the Clarion Congress Hotel in Prague (CZ). Topics included Big data and CMR ( S Petersen) and impressive contributions on the Improving of heath care through Imaging (Joerg Schwitter) as well as Imaging Biomarkers controversies (G. Cole). A good opportunity for Nano4Imaging to meet its clinical relations and plan further clinical work.
Dr Pushparajah (KCL) showed an excellent overview of the MRI guided catheter procedures including data of our recent PMCF in Munich.
Dr Vivek Muthurangu, as always made his take home message on MRI in Pulmonary hypertension simple: go out and do it!!
Nano4Imaging is the proud winner of the first Ralf Raue Innovation award, as a reward for its continuous and extensive cross-border cooperation between Germany and Netherlands. On May 10th our CSO Paul Borm proudly accepted the price handed by Ria Hein (Brabant Investment) in the Auditorium at Technical University Eindhoven. The motivation of the jury reads” there are no borders for Nano4Imaging since it just uses the expertise wherever it is in Europe“. It further states that N4I has very strong links with clinical centers in the Netherlands (Maastricht, Utrecht, Nijmegen) and joint development projects with these clinical centers.
After the live case in Washington at SCMR2017, now also ISMRM which gathers more then 5000 specialists in MRI, had a live broadcast of real time cardiac MRI in a plenary session on April 25th. Among several speakers it was prof. Razavi who explained the value of interventional MRI in cardiac diagnostics and interventions. His research group at King’s College London has been the first to apply real-time MRI to congenital heart disease more than 15 years ago.
On February 13th 2017, Paul Borm (Founder and CSO of Nano4Imaging) gave a TED talk in which he talks about innovation as results of energy explosions. During his talk he brings nanotechnology forward as a discipline that needs cross-border collaboration to understand the use and applications of new (nano)materials. To explain this he shows a movie a MRI guided stenting in a pig renal artery during his talk. He also stresses the importance of open innovation.
