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University Medical Center Mainz coordinates new, international Innovative Training Network

“TICARDIO” focuses on biomedical processes in cardiovascular diseases

(…) The Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (CTH) of the University Medical Center Mainz coordinates the new Innovative Training Network (ITN) “TICARDIO – Thrombo-Inflammation in Cardiovascular Disease”. TICARDIO is dedicated to study pathological processes in cardiovascular diseases. The ITN provides 15 doctorate students with the opportunity acquire scientific and general skills within a cross-border network. The structured international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral research and training program will start in 2019 and takes place at research locations in Mainz, Maastricht, Marseille and Dortmund. The European Commission provides 4 million euros over a period of 48 months for this ITN, which is part of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Action (MSCA) of the Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation.

The demographic change with aging populations places a heavy burden on health care systems worldwide. Despite all medical […]

Insight in individual sportperformance is a prerequisite to work on performance improvement. Therefore many athletes make use of measuring equipment. Such equipment is readily available for able-bodied athletes and often at an affordable price, both for amateur and professional athletes. For wheelchair sports there is no suitable system, therefore they have to do with global outcomes as time on, for example, a sprint test. Due to the lack of information on wheelchair specific performance, it is not possible to properly evaluate training methods and materials.

Within the research project RAAKpro the “perfect sport wheelchair” a method is developed to measure wheelchair performance during games and practices, but this method is still expensive and complex. The athletes and coaches who participated in the study immediately saw the great value of the results and would like to see a product that they themselves perform such measurements.

Wheelchair sports performance monitor project goal

The goal of the wheelchair sports performance monitor project, an initiative […]

2M Engineering has build a wearable sensor technology platform that consists of essential building blocks. This enables 2M Engineering to quickly make a translation of your application into a wearable sensor product that meets your requirements.

Wearable Sensor Technology enabling new applications

The 2M wearable sensor technology platform consists of various building blocks. Think here of a standard of sensors for which hardware and embedded software libraries are available off the shelf to quickly enable new applications:

• Accerlero, Gyro, Magnetometer sensors- 9 DOF of movement
• Heart rate & ECG measurement sensor – medical grade to optical more consumer oriented
• Respiration or breathing sensor
• SPO2 sensor
• Temperature sensor and humdity sensors
• Pressure, distance and PPG sensor
• …

Joining these sensors together into customized hardware for OEM/ODM products is a technology focused small step. The more difficult step is how to combine those to add real value to patients or users and to have an impact to change the status quo. In many cases data reduction and smart […]

Joint effort to validate new contactless medical sleep sensor

In a joint effort the technical university of Eindhoven, Livassured, 2M Engineering and Kempenhaeghe work together towards the validation of an innovative  contactless medical sleep sensor. This extremely sensitive sensor can pick up both large signals and also very small signals as required to derive heart rate from the raw pressure signal. Due to this high sensitivity the placement of the sensor is more flexible compared to other solutions.

Intelligent signal processing

By combining the contactless medical sleep sensor with intelligent and reliable signal processing new applications can be enabled not possible with the current consumer oriented bedsensors.

Focus on 3 use cases – Patients with Epilepsy, Parkinson patients & OSA patients

In a sleep center like Kempenhaeghe all facilities to do a full night or longer polysomnograhpy measurement are present, however this is not the case in people’s own homes. In this project we develop low invasive measurement, […]