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The private equity fund of Gilde Healthcare, a specialist healthcare investor, has acquired global medtech firm EUROPIN.
Digital health and diagnostics firm Arcensus has appointed its founder, Professor Dr Arndt Rolfs, as CEO. Professor Rolfs succeeds Michael Schlenk, who will remain an active member of its supervisory board. Rolfs is a multi-entrepreneur in biotech and former CEO of several innovative biotech companies, including Nasdaq-listed company CENTOGENE. Mr Schlenk wished the new CEO [...]
Proximie, the global health tech platform digitising operating rooms around the world, has appointed a new GM for the Americas, and a chief growth officer, amid ongoing expansion. Charlie H. Wilhelm joins as GM for the Americas, bringing vast industry experience and expertise. Most recently, he was the president and COO of KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America - [...]
By Adrian Smith, general manager, Hologic UK and Ireland
Cognetivity Neurosciences has signed a deal to expand its dementia detection technology across the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The health tech firm reached a commercial agreement with Emirates Health Services for the company's technology to be deployed as a screening tool for cognitive impairment throughout the UAE. Based in Dubai, EHS is the main federal provider [...]
Healthcare systems across the world face excess demand for specific treatments and services, leaving providers struggling with increasing backlogs. At the same time, however, private healthcare providers in multiple countries have excess capacity that remains untapped. Health tech startup GlobMed, launched last year, believes it has the solution to these twin problems. We caught up with [...]
Software developed in the UK will soon allow people to easily report their Covid-19 lateral flow test results to public health authorities in America, helping to track the spread of the virus. Transform, developed by Wales-based Bond Digital Health, is being used in conjunction with a lateral flow test that is being manufactured in high [...]
Biotech firm ProMIS Neurosciences has appointed Dr. Cheryl Wellington to its scientific advisory board. ProMIS is focused on the discovery and development of antibody therapeutics, targeting misfolded proteins such as toxic oligomers implicated in the development of neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Cheryl Wellington is professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC), has [...]
Shanghai-headquartered health tech firm United Imaging has signed a partnership agreement with King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC), one of the Gulf’s leading cancer care centres, in Jordan. The deal coincided with United Imaging’s attendance at Arab Health 2022, held in Dubai last week. Under the agreement, the two organisations will be collaborating in clinical applications [...]
The UK government welcomed a panel of UK and UAE experts in its digital health at Arab Health 2022 – the healthcare exhibition in the Middle East – to explore the role digital health has in improving patient outcomes in the UK and the Middle East. The seminar, ‘Next Steps for Digital Health’, featured Dr Mubaraka [...]
