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Innovation in regulating digital therapeutics: a European challenge to benefit patients

The two years of the pandemic have been key to accelerating the digitalization of the healthcare sector and healthcare services, as well as fueling the growth of digital health startups. Innovation in the adoption of technology in the provision of health services and making them available to people is still a challenge ahead. In this sense, Catalonia is committed to having a notifying authority that advises and accompanies the digital therapies of the BioRegion during its process of integration into...

21.02.2022

Stephen Dunne

Chief Product Officer of Koa Health

He has a degree in Physics and over 20 years of experience in the world of technological innovation. He joined the Telefónica disruptive projects lab in 2016, from which he founded Koa Health in 2020. 

26.01.2022

Barcelona, January 26, 2022. Investment in health startups in the BioRegion continues to grow and again surpassed the €200 million mark for the second year in a row, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, companies raised €238 million, the most to date. Venture capital funding was the main driver of this growth, with more than €187 million, or 79% of all capital, three times as much as in 2019.

83% of the venture capital raised was in operations with international investors. In fact, more than 90% of operations worth over €10 million are...

11.01.2022

Gisela Lorente Marina

Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) 

She has a PhD in biomedicine from the University of Barcelona and over 8 years of experience in scientific research in the field of cancer. She has worked as head of innovation and technology transfer at IDIBELL, where she was part of setting up Aptadel Therapeutics. 

Get to know Robert Fabregat, new CEO of Biocat

This year of Biocat’s 15th anniversary brought a passing of the baton at the helm of the organization to Robert Fabregat. Learn more about his first months, the areas he wants to strengthen, how he imagines the BioRegion a few years from now, and his healthy habits