Impulse - Meeting Healthcare Pioneers

To discover the whole episode type "#21 - Transforming hypertension care with a bracelet - Jay Shah - Aktiia" on your streaming platform.

Restoring one of our five senses, in this case, touch. The stakes are immense (1 in 1000 people are affected yearly by a peripheral nerve injury!) and the origins are diverse: traumatic accident, cancer, amputation, and many others. And solutions to this problem have long needed to be improved. Karen Zaderej and her team at Axogen have set themselves the goal of changing this situation, by proposi...

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We all know that medical data is sensitive personal information, which we would not like to have falling into the wrong hands. Along with the progress of digitalisation in healthcare, the number of cyberattacks towards this particular sector has dramatically increased over the past years. The ultimate risk? Slowed or even paralysed hospitals, with lives lost as a consequence. Since all of this hap...

To discover the whole episode type "#19 - Saving lives through cybersecurity - Richard Staynings - Cylera" on your streaming platform.

Most of our genome does not code for any protein, which led us to believe that 98% of our genetic material was useless. But what was initially termed as the “dark side of the genome” (which Star Wars fans will certainly appreciate!) turns out to play a crucial role in modulating our biology. It is in fact the software translating environmental factors (e.g. air quality, lifestyle, stress, etc.) in...

To discover the whole episode type "#18 - The dark genome as the next revolution in drug discovery - Samir Ounzain - HAYA Therapeutics" on your streaming platform.

How can we support each and every one of us in identifying and pursuing our goals towards a healthier life, in a world where access to care seems to be continuously shrinking? The solution may lie in health coaching and making it accessible across the globe. Having witnessed his wife successfully battling breast cancer and becoming a certified health coach, Eugene Borukhovich joined her entreprene...

To discover the whole episode type "#17 - Coaching as the key to a better health - Eugene Borukhovich - YourCoach. Health" on your streaming platform.

Starting a career in the Israeli army, becoming a lawyer, and finally transforming the field of medical imaging. In a very schematic way, this is what might define Ohad Arazi’s path, who is now spearheading the field of handheld ultrasound as the CEO of Clarius. His curiosity for medical imaging - coupled with a very product-oriented mindset and an unrelenting desire to understand the problems tha...

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Nicolas Durand is the CEO of Abionic, a Swiss-based startup which developed and commercialises the abioSCOPE®, a unique diagnostic platform characterised by its compact size and ability to deliver high quality results in a fraction of time. Passionate about high tech and wishing to become an entrepreneur from a very early age (he created his first company with a friend at school when he was 14 yea...

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Will the next revolution in personalized health be led by connected clothes? This is the bet that Vincent Martinez and his team at Nanoleq are making, and they are putting all their efforts into turning their vision into reality! Originally, their idea was to target the cable industry with a proprietary technology enabling to create stretchable cables, with superior physical and electrical propert...

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Developing a new drug is a tough and strenuous endeavour, requiring investments that go beyond $1 billion and sometimes up to 15 years of time. On top of that, only 1 out of 10 drug candidates successfully passes clinical trial testing and regulatory approval. The Dutch company Mimetas, specialized in the use of organ-on-a-chip technology, aims to address exactly this challenge by accelerating thi...

To discover the whole episode type “#13 - Catalyzing drug discovery using organ-on-a-chip models - Bas Trietsch - Mimetas" on your streaming platform.

Daniel Kraft is a surprising and admirable figure in the digital health landscape. Originally trained as a physician in internal medicine and pediatrics, he then distinguished himself by his research work focusing on regenerative medicine, while at the same time initiating several entrepreneurial projects in the medtech space. RegenMed Systems is one of them, a company that he founded and which le...

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Miniaturizing the lab to allow for the continuous analysis of proteins and hormones circulating in our body through a wearable. This is the aim of Xsensio - a Swiss startup developing the Lab-on-Skin(c) platform - which will enable in the future to continuously track compounds present in the interstitial fluid, right underneath our skin. It is in essence a similar concept as the established contin...

To discover the whole episode type “#11 - Turning the lab into a wearable platform - Esmeralda Megally - Xsensio" on your streaming platform.

Most of us have already heard about blockchain technology, as well as many things about cryptocurrencies and how they are transforming traditional approaches in the field of finance. But what about its relevance to healthcare and the potential applications it may have in this space? Eberhard Scheuer is the President of the dHealth Foundation, a not-for-profit organization from Switzerland providin...

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Raimundo Sierra is the Founder and CEO from VirtaMed, a Swiss company specialized in surgical simulation systems, covering interventions in orthopaedics, gynecology, laparoscopy and urology, providing true-to-life training for aspiring surgeons and established ones, as part of their continuing education. At the edge of robotics and gaming, Raimundo takes us through the origins of this extremely am...

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