The European Innovation Council, under the umbrella of its Pathfinder Programme, has recently awarded a grant of €2.7 million to a […]
Posts Tagged ‘Innovation’
Inspired by an Ancient Queen
A decade ago, Siddhartha Mukherjee published his prize-winning book entitled The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. He quoted from […]
Turning Cancer on Itself
Fifteen years ago, Samuel Mazin was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, studying the inverse geometry of computer tomographic (CT) systems. He […]
Harambee: A Book is Launched
Yesterday saw the launch of a marvellous new book authored by Mike Bruton entitled Harambee. Published by BestRed, an imprint […]
An Icon Bids Adieu
In 1985, Dr Jay Stein and his good friend David Ellenbogen teamed up to co-found Hologic with 12 employees and the intention […]
Learning from Past Mistakes
Almost 25 years ago, in 1998, the FDA approved computer-aided detection (CAD) tools as an adjunct to mammography. This was before the […]
Are Drugs Fairly Priced?
Trastuzumab – also known as Herceptin – is a life-saving drug that arrests the development and spread of an aggressive form of […]
Angels in the Crowd
When an entrepreneur has a novel idea for a medical device, her biggest challenge will be to secure the necessary […]
Killing Two Birds with One Stone
We are all familiar with the expression, “killing two birds with one stone,” which means to achieve two things by […]
Turning Discovery into Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has its origins in a one-room laboratory in New York City in 1887 and […]