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Young Innovators Under 30: 4 DEIB Alumni in the Forbes Ranking

Of the seven alumni of the Politecnico di Milano selected by Forbes Italia for its annual ranking of the 100 young innovators under 30 who have developed revolutionary ideas and projects that can positively impact the country's economy, four are from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering.

Circular Economy: The RITESSERE Project Kicks Off

The RITESSERE (Silk Sericin Materials from Textile Industry By-Products) project has started with the goal of using the waste product from the treatment of raw silk, sericin, for the production of new materials and devices in the field of life sciences.

Approxima: Solutions for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

On February 6, 2023 Approxima, MedTech spin-off of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano, announced the closing of a 1.6 million euros seed financing round to develop a minimally invasive tricuspid valve repair system based on a right ventricular reshaping approach to treat patients with tricuspid regurgitation.

S2P 2022: IPSE-XR and Moovy Among the Winning Projects

IPSE-XR and Moovy, two projects which stems from the research activity of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, are among the winners of the 2022 edition of Switch2Product, the Innovation Challenge of Politecnico di Milano, PoliHub – Innovation Park & Startup Accelerator and Deloitte for innovative solutions, new technologies and business ideas from students, researchers, PhD students, professors and alumni of the Politecnico di Milano.

HPC: An Agreement Between Politecnico di Milano and Atos Italia

The Politecnico di Milano and Atos Italia have signed a three-year framework partnership agreement that will foster joint projects in education, technology transfer and applied research in cutting-edge areas in the field of digitalization, such as Digital Twin, High Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Internet of Things.

PoliMOVE Team Wins the Indy Autonomous Challenge

PoliMOVE team, coordinated by Prof. Sergio Savaresi from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano, won the third edition of the Indy Autonomous Challenge which took place on November 11, 2022 at the iconic Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas.

GenoGra Wins the Startcup Lombardia

GenoGra is among the four winning projects of the 2022 edition of Startcup Lombardia, the competition promoted by Regione Lombardia to foster research and technological innovation and encourage the birth and development of new companies with high business potential. The project, winner in the Life Science & MedTech category, was awarded a prize of 25,000 euros.

A New Partnership with Luxottica for the Glasses of the Future

EssilorLuxottica and Politecnico di Milano have created the first ever joint research centre aimed at designing the smart glasses of the future, EssilorLuxottica Smart Eyewear Lab. The agreement, which involves an investment worth over 50 million euros, will encompass industrial research and experimental development of devices underlying a new generation of wearables which are capable of autonomous network connection.

TToP: A Replica of Human Tissue to Develop New Drugs

A new spin-off company of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano was founded from the TToP – True Tissue on Platform project. Born in 2018 as a master's thesis project in Biomedical Engineering, TToP is a versatile and modular microphysiological platform capable of replicating in vitro the complex physio-pathological conditions of human tissues. This technology makes the process of developing and testing new drugs and treatments more effective and less expensive, while minimizing the use of animal models.

Streaming Machine Learning: Motus.ml Wins the 2050 Challenge

Alessio Bernardo and Giacomo Ziffer, PhD candidates in Information Technology and members of Prof. Emanuele Della Valle’s research group from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano, together with Veronika Merlin, alumna from the Department of Design of the Politecnico di Milano, won the 2050 Challenge with the motus.ml project. The prize consists of six months of incubation at the Piacenza UrbanHub and 3,000 euros to support the start-up launch.

Artificial Intelligence and Diagnostic Imaging

Ikonisys, a company specializing in the early and accurate detection of cancer, and the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano signed a research contract to initiate a project to bear on the challenging problem of identifying specific cells in complex tissues through designing, training and deployment of a deep learning model able to detect them.

The Smart Insufflator that Mitigates Risks for Patients

A group of biomedical engineers from the TechRes Lab of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (Politecnico di Milano), coordinated by Prof. Raffaele Dellacà, in cooperation with a team of physicians from the Paediatric Surgery Department of the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, has developed and patented a smart innovative insufflation device that mitigates risks for patients undergoing keyhole surgery.

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