Proton radiation in Essen
Series Technologies of the future

Series Technologies of the future

Hightech for health

There are technologies that are much more than just inventions that make life easier. In the healthcare sector, innovations can save lives, as the coronavirus pandemic shows us every day. We are dedicating ourselves to these future technologies in this series.

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Marcel Walz (left) und Tobias Gebhard, Benjamin Heinzerling (right)

The billion-euro drug

Up to 700,000 patients become infected with germs during a hospital stay every year. To check whether hospital employees disinfect their hands often and thoroughly enough, GWA Hygiene relies on artificial intelligence.

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A woman holds an ampoule of Hepcludex, powder for injection preparation in her hand

The billion-euro drug

MYR is a particularly special German success story In just under ten years, the biotech company from Bad Homburg has gone from zero to 1 billion euros with just one drug. How is that possible?

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Centogene lab

The fight against the coronavirus

Responsibility in times of crisis: the Rostock-based company Centogene that otherwise tracks rare diseases is opening its laboratories for life-saving coronavirus tests. Up to 10,000 swabs can be analysed per day.

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In the PEPperPRINT laboratory

With biotech against the virus

Three biotech companies from Heidelberg, Leipzig and Hennigsdorf in Brandenburg are considered particularly innovative. Their developments could help in the fight against coronavirus.

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Proton radiation in Essen

The power of particles

Cancer is becoming forever prevalent in our ageing society. But children develop cancer too. In Essen patients can receive targeted treatment with beams of protons. A visit to the West German Proton Therapy Center.

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Rigontec laboratory

Venture capital for cancer research

Rigontec is launching its first clinical study to test a new active substance to fight cancer. The unique thing about this drug is that it programs the body's immune system to identify tumour cells as harmful and then kill them.

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Labor from Atriva in Muenster

Double impact

Atriva Therapeutics has been working to develop flu treatment for several years. Now the company is working on a medicine to help people suffering from COVID-19.

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High demand for German medical technology

The corona crisis is having a huge impact on worldwide demand for medical technology, including from Germany. Isabel Thywissen, healthcare expert at KfW subsidiary DEG, talks about investment opportunities in developing and emerging countries and about funding possibilities for German SMEs.

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Ball from Ichó

A ball to evoke memories

It is common to feel helpless when dealing with dementia patients. A start-up in Duisburg has a promising idea: a ball filled with electronics that gives people a piece of their life back.

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Screen of the Magnosco apparatus

Using light to faster detect skin cancer

When moles change shape or colour, dermatologists often take tissue samples to rule out the possibility of skin cancer. But is it always necessary? Magnosco GmbH has developed a device that uses a combination of laser light and artificial intelligence to make diagnosis easier.

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Portrait of Yannik Schreckensberger. The 32-year-old sits on a chair in his office.

“The focus needs to shift to patients”

How are sick people doing when they are not hospitalised, and stay at home? Yannik Schreckenberger has closed this knowledge gap and contributed to peoples’ recovery with his start-up Heartbeat Medical – not least during the coronavirus pandemic.

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The three Sympatient founders Christian Angern, Julian Angern and Benedikt Reinke

Facing fear with virtual reality

The company Sympatient has transferred therapy content for people with anxiety disorder to an app and uses virtual reality for practice scenarios. The Hamburg-based healthcare start-up won the KfW Entrepreneurs’ Award for this idea.

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Reactive robotics

New medical technology proves its value

Robot technology for mobilising intensive care patients, digital consultation hours, artificial intelligence for disinfection control - innovative technologies help the medical sector in the fight against the corona pandemic. KfW Stories presents four companies.

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