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Catalonia in Business
Catalonia Trade & Investment
Issue 52 | May 28th, 2020
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Fighting Covid-19 from Catalonia's life sciences hub
Catalonia, home to 1,300 startups
A world-class network of medical institutions, hospitals, research centres, healthcare multinationals and pharma companies have all made Barcelona and Catalonia a leading life sciences hub. Fighting Covid-19 has been a top priority from minute one.
JAUME VIVES, MANAGING DIRECTOR SPAIN
Roche Diagnostics: "The school of work in health sciences in Catalonia is extraordinary"
The Swiss company Roche has set up its worldwide technology headquarters in Catalonia. Managing director Jaume Vives highlights in this interview the excellence of life science professionals in Catalonia, as well as their groundbreaking research in biomedicine.
JOSUÈ SALLENT, DIRECTOR AT ICT HEALTH SOCIAL FOUNDATION
“Catalonia is home to Europe’s largest medical imaging bank”
Catalonia hosts the biggest and most comprehensive database in Europe in medical imaging, making it the place to be for digital health. Josuè Sallent explains that the early adoption of new technologies has turned Catalonia into a pioneering European health system.
CATALAN TECHNOLOGY TO FIGHT COVID-19
Eurecat and Leitat: R&D made in Catalonia
Catalonia received the highest number of R&D investment projects in 2019 in all Continental Europe, according to fDi Markets. Eurecat and Leitat technology centres are key players in Catalonia’s R&D environment and have been tirelessly working in innovative projects to help fight Covid-19.
DID YOU KNOW?
DYK
Catalogue of Solutions for Covid-19
Catalonia Trade & Investment has drawn up a Catalogue of Solutions for Covid-19, a selection of companies and proposals within Catalonia that have developed solutions to deal with the health crisis and that all have export capacity.
NEWS
Grifols takes part in Microsoft-backed project to use plasma in new Covid-19 therapies
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Guide: Aid for productive activity and employment to counter the effects of coronavirus
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Catalonia to connect with world's second longest fiber optic submarine cable
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Catalonia leads a pioneering research on how Covid-19 affects the elderly
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BSC uses bioinformatics, artificial intelligence and its MareNostrum supercomputer in the fight against coronavirus
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Catalan clusters work on specific projects to fight Covid-19
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Eurecat wins European hackathon with project to predict Covid-19 outbreaks through wastewater analysis
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Catalonia Trade & Investment is the public agency of the Catalan Government that works to attract foreign investment to Barcelona and Catalonia, promoting the area as an attractive, innovative and competitive business location.
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