NEWS

July 2010
State Secretary Annette Widmann-Mauz, MdB, visits novineon to learn more about the VECTOR project
Tuebingen, Germany, July 16th 2010. Annette Widmann-Mauz, MdB, State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of Health, visits novineon Healthcare Technology Partners GmbH, to become acquainted to the progress in innovative medical technology and the VECTOR project.
During the visit, Prof. Dr. Marc O. Schurr, Managing Director, and Dr. Sebastian Schostek, Director of R&D, introduced the latest research results in the field of painless, robot-controlled capsular endoscopes and telemetric sensor systems for bleeding detection in the digestive tract to the State Secretary.
The German government supports screening endoscopy in an effort to promote early detection of benign colorectal lesions and cancer.


Photo: Christoph Ströhle

The newspaper Reutlinger Generalanzeiger reported in its issue of July 21st 2010.

June 2010
Final report of MNBS 2010 meeting issued
The European Commission has issued the final report of the 2010 MNBS meeting in Neuchâtel, February 15-16 2010, where also the VECTOR project was presented.
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May 2010
Comprehensive reports on VECTOR project on Deutschlandfunk radio and in the internet
In a detailed interview with Prof. Dr. Marc O. Schurr and Dr. Sebastian Schostek of novineon Healthcare Technology Partners GmbH, Deutschlandfunk radio reports on the presentation of the VECTOR project at pHealth 2010 in Berlin.
Schwimmende Pille | Die Zukunft der Darmspiegelung. Von Volkart Wildermuth
Here you can listen to the interview | mp3

May 2010
VECTOR project exhibits latest prototypes and organizes symposium at pHealth 2010 conference in Berlin, May 26-28, 2010
The pHealth conference is a leading international event in technologies for personalized health care and focuses on smart systems, micro and nano technologies, smart textiles, telemedicine and other technologies to improve the future of medicine.
www.phealth2010.com

November 2009
VECTOR partner from Barcelona receives Best Paper Award for their paper on the development of an integrated circuit enabling active locomotion in capsular endoscopy
O. Alonso, L. Freixas and A. Dieguez from the Department of Electronics at the University of Barcelona have been conferred the Best Paper Award at the Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems (DCIS) 2009. Angel Dieguez and his team have developed and presented an integrated circuit particularly suited for driving a robotic capsular endoscope. The DCIS'09 Steering Committee selected their paper entitled ‘Enabling Active Locomotion in Capsular Endoscopy’ in recognition of the ‘research paper quality, originality and significance’. The XXIV DCIS Co