Ireland’s new Biomedical Diagnostics Institute was launched last week as the focus for industrial-clinical-academic research collaborations.
The hope is that these devices will enable the detection of diseases before they become serious. The institute has a brief to integrate fundamental and applied research from a range of scientific and engineering disciplines, into working device demonstrators.
The institute brings together key academic researchers from Dublin City University, the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, the National University of Ireland in Galway and University College Cork, with six industrial partners, Åmic, Analog Devices, Becton Dickinson, Enfer Scientific, Hospira, and Inverness Medical Innovations, to form an integrated, cohesive, multi-disciplinary team of more than 70 people.
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