The Holicare Project Partners
A European and African collaboration facilitating the broad access to diagnosis of Respiratory Tract Infections
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KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN
Sweden
The KTH Royal Institute of Technology, abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technology and is Sweden’s largest technical university.
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET
Sweden
Karolinska Institutet is one of the world’s foremost medical universities, KI accounts for the single largest share of all academic medical research conducted in Sweden. KI also offers the country’s broadest range of education in medicine and health sciences.
STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET
Sweden
Stockholm University is represented by the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) – one of the world’s oldest IT departments characterised by interdisciplinary research, and focused on developing and adapting the use of IT. Located in of one of the world’s leading ICT clusters, DSV provides unique opportunities to link academic activities to industry and organisations, and conduct research and education of the highest quality.
TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY
United Kingdom
Teesside University generates and applies knowledge that contributes to the economic, social and cultural success of students, partners and the communities we serve. Through education enriched by research, innovation, and engagement with business and the professions, we transform lives and economies. Teesside Healthcare Innovation Centre (HIC) includes themes of diagnostics and therapeutics as well as computing and clinical validation.
GLOBAL ACCESS DIAGNOSTICS
United Kingdom
HAHN-SCHICKARD
Germany
Hahn-Schickard (HS) is a private, non-profit research organization dedicating its research to microsystems engineering & Lab-on-a-Chip systems for full integration and automation of biochemical assays. Its role in HOLICARE is the development and integration of an innovative bead-based immunoassay for biomarker quantification and the pre-analytics of saliva for detection of respiratory pathogens.
MAST DIAGNOSTICA GMBH
Germany
Mast Diagnostica GmbH develops and produces modern diagnostics that help medical staff to initiate targeted, effective therapies. Mast is committed to the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Therefore, we support the One Health concept of the WHO. All product developments are aimed at improving health care wherever there is a need for diagnostic action based on UN and WHO analyses.
iSTOC OY
Finland
iSTOC integrates point of care diagnostics, machine vision, mobile technology and cloud computing into one reliable platform. IDA (immediate diagnostics and analytics) platform is a globally scalable end-to end solution offering significant and innovative business opportunities for iSTOC business partners and customers.
BLUMORPHO SAS
France
BLUMORPHO is the trusted partner for corporate’ innovation. They open and access new ecosystems, detect new market opportunities and activate collaborations and investments in new technologies, new business models and new ventures. They operate tailor-made and human-centred open innovation from R&D to investment and M&A. Experts in deep tech and new business models for positive impact, they connect the leaders of the next innovation wave.
MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Uganda
Mbarara University (MUST), a public institution in Uganda, is an Academic and Professional Centre of Excellence in Science and Technology. It provide quality and relevant Education at National and International levels with emphasis on Science and Technology and Community Development. MUST collaborates with Mbarara Hospital, in healthcare provision to a large region in West Uganda.
ARMAUER HANSEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Ethiopia
Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI) is a biomedical research institute which works basic immunology and molecular biology, epidemiological and translational research on infectious and non-infectious diseases. AHRI has a network of national and international collaborators for research, clinical trials partnerships, capacity building and training of post-grads.
INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR
Senegal
MAKERERE UNIVERSITY
Uganda
Makerere University is one of the oldest universities in Africa with 40,000 students from the East, Central and Southern African region. The College of Computing and Information Sciences has 83 academic staff and three flagship labs in data science, artificial intelligence, sensor development etc. Technical competency and professional experience in geospatial data and computational intelligence, telecommunications engineering.
UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG
Germany
The University of Freiburg (UFR) is one of the oldest German universities, actively fostering interdisciplinary research. The Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) of UFR is a world leading Institution in the field of micro/nanotechnology for life sciences, specialising in the heterogeneous integration at the interface between biology/biochemistry and engineering. It participates with its strong background in immunoassay development, integration in automated systems, as well as saliva processing and pre-analytics protocol developments for non-invasive diagnostic approaches.
