BioInnovate
BioInnovate Ireland is a world-leading innovation hub, educating the next generation of Healthcare visionaries and entrepreneurs to positively impact lives everywhere.
BioInnovate Ireland is a national health technology innovation programme based at University of Galway.
BioInnovate offers a unique, hands-on experience in identifying unmet healthcare needs and developing innovative solutions with commercial opportunities.
This unique approach allows the identification and validation of unmet clinical needs with an associated market opportunity and facilitates the development and commercial de-risking of emerging technologies in the Medtech sector.
The goal of the programme is to educate BioInnovate Ireland Fellows and Industry Trainees with a view to developing the next generation of medtech leaders, embedding design capabilities in Irish companies and driving the creation of new Irish start-ups.
Over the years, BioInnovate alumni have developed a wide range of successful spin out high potential start-ups and raised significant Seed and Series A funding.
BioInnovate has helped to create 33 new companies successfully raising over €312million in funding to date.
The programme operates in partnership with a host of national and international partners including Stanford University, American College of Cardiology, our EIT Health funded European Fellowship Network, University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin, Mayo Clinic, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, Abbott Vascular, Creganna, and Aerogen.