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Achieving more together
Ascenion enjoys close and longstanding working relationships with its partner…
Science
Partner of leading life-science institutes
Ascenion provides long-term support in knowledge and technology transfer for more than 30 academic institutes in Europe: institutes of the Helmholtz and Leibniz Associations, universities, university hospitals and associated organizations. All have the life sciences in common. 10 of them are…
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Ascenion is economically independent. An Advisory Board supports the company on technical and strategic matters.
Prof. Thomas Gottwald
Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Gottwald (MD, PhD) is CEO and shareholder of Hecosol GmbH, a startup specializing in antimicrobial coatings. He was a General…
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At home in industry and academia
Ascenion's team includes more than 30 employees in 6 locations with headquarters in Munich. We are interdisciplinary, international and industry-experienced. All of our technology managers have life-science backgrounds and many of us have experience working in start-ups, mid-sized companies and multinational…
x-cardiac GmbH develops AI-based systems for the prediction of life-threatening complications after cardiac surgery. The software was developed by Prof. Alexander Meyer, clinician and computer scientist at the German Heart Center Berlin (DHZB), and has been trained using anonymized data from c. 32,000 patient admissions at the DHZB/DHZC, with over…
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Green & White Biotech
During the eight-week hybrid training programme, ten teams will receive a unique opportunity to develop their business ideas with the help of life-science experts from SmiLe, the German biotechnology cluster BioM and the pharmaceutical company Merck. Lectures by experts, together with individual coaching and mentoring, will give participants sound…
BioFIT is Europe’s biggest partnering event for technology transfer, academia-industry collaborations, and early-stage innovations in the life sciences. Participants are such as big pharma, emerging and small biotech, diagnostics companies, pre-seed, seed, and Series-A investors, as well as professionals from tech transfer, academia and research…
Over 70 licensable commercial opportunities from research organisations, universities and clinics from all over Europe were presented to industry representatives and investors. Projects included highly innovative therapeutic and diagnostic approaches as well as platform technologies and medical devices.
In addition, BioVaria’s Startup Pitch…
In March 2023, 28 technology transfer professionals from all over Germany and Austria came together in Munich for two days to share their experience and learn about the latest developments in the fields of patent law, licensing and spin-off support. The program was packed with information and practical advice, with topics covering licensing terms,…
The investigator initiated, multicenter phase I trial is designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of LuCaFab and to establish the dosing scheme for future studies. It is sponsored by the University of Münster, conducted in hospitals in Münster, Essen, Cologne and Würzburg, and supported by Helmholtz Munich and Isotope…
Ascenion’s portfolio company iThera Medical announces the successful closure of a EUR 13 million investment round, led by TRUMPF Venture with participation by the EIC Fund and further existing investors. The funding will be used especially for the translation of the company’s novel medical imaging technology into a routine clinical environment…
Recovery Cat is a spin-off of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) originating from the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Campus Mitte. The start-up has developed a digital platform to help people with severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and recurrent…
