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ETH start-up is developing a granular hydrogel that selectively captures inflammatory signals from chronic wounds while also actively promoting healing
08-Jul-2025
Chronic wounds are a major medical challenge, burdening healthcare systems with billions of dollars in costs every year. Pioneer Fellow Börte Emiroglu is developing a new product: a selective, sponge-like hydrogel that reduces inflammatory signals and actively promotes healing. Börte Emiroglu’s ...
With planned ETH spin-off to market maturity
07-Jul-2025
Giuseppe Antoniazzi is developing a diagnostic toolkit that gives early warning of fibrotic diseases. In doing so, this Pioneer Fellow wishes to contribute to the early detection of tissue scarring, which is usually noticed too late and can barely be halted, and enable countermeasures to be ...
DBU supports start-up Ährenbrüder from Telgte
07-Jul-2025
The market for milk alternatives in Germany continues to grow. According to the statistics portal Statista, per capita sales of substitute products made from oats, almonds and soy have risen considerably in Germany: from 1.66 kilograms in 2018 to 4.94 kilograms in 2024. The drawback: farmers in ...
Ready, set, here are the Changemakers!
07-Jul-2025
The finalists of the €25,000 6th ISC3 Innovation Challenge – dedicated to innovations in Sustainable Chemistry and Climate Change – have been selected! After a rigorous evaluation process, an internationaljury of 36 experts from diverse and relevant fields identified the ten most promising ...
An international research team has developed certified biodegradable and recyclable multi-purpose foams
07-Jul-2025
Foams have numerous possible potential applications, for example ranging from the automotive, household and mechanical engineering sectors to leisure and sports applications. Until now, it has been common practice to produce these materials from crude oil, which negatively impacts their ...
KIT selects the best innovations: ReacTUNE - a software tool for designing reactor geometries - wins the NEULAND Innovation Competition 2025
04-Jul-2025
Completes months of work in under an hour: ReacTUNE, new software from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), automatically calculates the optimum geometry for chemical reactors and generates directly usable files for their production using the 3D metal printing process. At this year's ...
Technology was transferred to the Berlin start-up GrOwnValve
02-Jul-2025
At the German Heart Center of the Charité (DHZC), a heart valve prosthesis made from the body's own tissue, the first of its kind in the world, has now been implanted. In contrast to conventional replacement valves made of animal material, it is designed to last almost indefinitely - and to adapt ...
JUGEND GRÜNDET National Finals 2025: ALTANA Special Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Student Duo from Heilbronn
01-Jul-2025
More energy for athletes, less plastic waste in the environment – that is the goal of Maximilian Schmidt and Nico Wittmann, students at the Freie Josef-Schwarz-Schule in Heilbronn. With their business idea “AlgaSprint,” the two young innovators participated in the nationwide student competition ...
Shifting care from hospital to home
30-Jun-2025
AIKON Health, a digital health spin-off from TNO, has successfully raised €1.2 million in seed funding to advance its wearable technology for remote monitoring of heart failure. The investment will accelerate product development and early clinical validation. Investments come from TTT Medtech ...
Landmark scientific advances reduce key cost drivers
30-Jun-2025
Clever Carnivore, a technological leader in the cultivated meat industry, reveals their breakthroughs in low-cost, scalable cultivated pork production. The company is on a mission to prove that cultivated meat is not only technically feasible but also can be produced cost-effectively at scale, ...
