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Slush 2018

Meet us at section 6D.6. See our innovations and meet the researchers behind them. The University’s Slush section will feature a total of 13 innovations at different stages of the commercialisation process. At Slush, they will look for partners, entrepreneurs and funders. See also technologies available for licensing and read more about the University of Helsinki at Slush.

First-ever insect vaccine
Reliable point-of-care diagnostics
Resetting the internal clocks
Artificial skin for chronic wounds
The world's best preschool
Creating value from algae
Smart mobility for smart cities
Parenting with the help of science
Better cardiac health with genome data
Utilizing the beneficial microbes
Scalable 5G air pollution sensing
Painless glucose monitoring
Enabling use of sensitive data for AI

First-ever insect vaccine

Dalan Animal Heal

Keeping pollinators healthy and saving the food production worldwide

The disappearance of pollinators represents a massive threat to global food security. The first-ever oral vaccination method strengthens the immune system of bees and prevents the rapid spread of diseases.

Read article: The first-ever in­sect vac­cine Prime­BEE helps bees stay healthy
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PrimeBEE / Dalan Animal Health

Dalial Freitak
+358 45 608 6104
dfreitak@gmail.com

Annette Kleiser
+1 (213) 308-6473
annette.kleiser@gmail.com

Reliable point-of-care diagnostics

Rapid Fret Serodiagnostics

Innovative definition for infectious and autoimmune diseases

Rapid, reliable, and user-friendly point-of-care immunoassay that qualifies for infectious and autoimmune diseases and allergies – basically in any medical question that can be answered by antibody detection.

Read article: RFS: Point-of-care dia­gnostics with the re­li­ab­il­ity of cent­ral labor­at­ory tests
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Rapid FRET Serodiagnostics

Satu Hepojoki
+358 50 411 3543
satu.hepojoki@helsinki.fi

Better cardiac health with genome data

Kardiokompassi

Next generation e-tools for personalized disease prevention

An interactive web application that combines traditional health data with newly discovered genomic risk information to predict and prevent diseases.

Read article: Kar­di­oKom­passi: in­di­vidu­al­ised pre­ven­tion of car­diac dis­ease with ge­n­omic data
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Kardiokompassi

Elisabeth Widen                                    
+358 50 3812738                                   
elisabeth.widen@helsinki.fi

Johanna Aro
+358 40 721 9741
johanna.aro@helsinki.fi

Painless glucose monitoring

Glucomodicum

Needle-free glucose monitoring for smart watches and activity bands

Scientific breakthrough that can help 400 million diabetics and 1.9 billion overweight people to live healthier. The proprietary technology can serve as a platform for multiple different self-test devices.

Read article: Gluc­o­Modicum: Needle-free & pain­less health mon­it­or­ing
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Glucomodicum

 Jokke Mäki
+358 40 5860946
jokke.maki@glucomodicum.com

Alejandro García Pérez
+358 40 532 4413
ag@glucomodicum.com

Enabling use of sensitive data for AI

VEIL.AI

Novel, powerful approach to de-identify personal data

Facilitates sharing and analysing data in low or zero-trust environments. Ensuring that neither anonymity nor data quality is compromised. The solution has been tested in demanding cross-border biobank research projects.

Read article: VEIL.AI en­ables the ef­fi­cient use of sens­it­ive data
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veil.ai

Tuomo Pentikäinen
+358 40 183 2881
tuomo.pentikainen@helsinki.fi

Timo Miettinen
+358 50 415 4650
timo.a.miettinen@helsinki.fi