Development project of the IBB Technology Development Fund paves the way for improved surgical method

Current skull model prototype (Synthes, Charité)The development of a 3-dimensional children’s skull model can facilitate the treatment of skull malformations in newborn infants. The concomitant research project was launched at the beginning of the year. The Technology Development Fund of the Investitionsbank Berlin is funding this promising undertaking to the tune of 500.000 euro.

In an age when every third German already surfs - wireless and mobile - using a personal smartphone, it’s fairly obvious that global Internet traffic will explode in the coming years. A current study by the IT industry’s giant Cisco estimates that the number of networked devices will eventually reach 15 billion. To meet this daunting challenge, Professors Dieter Bimberg and Nikolay Ledentsov of Berlin’s Technical University have discovered a novel method of obtaining peak transmission rates. Cooperation with the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) Technology Development Fund will allow research efforts on high-speed data transmission in telecommunication networks to be continued. The fund, which is poised to invest a total of 10 million euro in the advancement of promising inventions, finances necessary steps leading all the way to practical application. The advancement of four to five projects is financed by the fund annually, while Berlin’s patent and technology commercialization agency ipal assumes project control and marketing activities.

Technology transfer is at the core of the European Conference “Science to market”, to which the European Association of Pharma Biotechnology and ipal jointly invite from 27 - 28 September 2011. The focus is on personalized medicine.

As a close partner of the conference, ipal GmbH will hold a lecture and present some innovative technologies from Berlin’s research community. The EAPB is a platform for European scientific research and biopharmaceutical industry.