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Hello GIANT community member!
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Welcome to this week's issue of the GIANT Health newsletter.
This week we highlight one of our health technology event tracks: wearables, highlight opportunities powered by Barclays Eagle Labs and we invite you to share your job offer testimonials.
We also want to continue to invite you to get involved in our GIANT Health event in December!
Here at GIANT we are a global community of over 177,000 people working passionately to improve the health and well-being of people around the world.
As always we look forward to hearing from you.
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1. Wearables News and Wearables Track @ GIANT
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Over the next couple of weeks we want to share with you what we will be looking forward to discussing with you.
Wearables Track at GIANT Health
The Health sector wearables track @ GIANT health will focus on:
- Why, globally, people are taking up wearables in earnest?
- How we may close the digital loop with wearables?
- What our experts think the future of wearables looks like?
For more information around this topic and track at GIANT Health; read more here.
A Swedish medtech startup, Doccla, is pioneering virtual hospital care, and has announced a partnership with Northamption General Hospital NHST Trust (NGH) in the UK. The remote trial will include smart patient monitoring to free up NHS capacity. It will be interesting to see if these partnerships will turn to wearables and hardware to support their initiatives.
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2. Separating The Strains: a medical cannabis & epilepsy film
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Separating The Strains is a feature-length documentary that follows the story of two sisters who both suffer from epilepsy. Tamsin Leyland, 37, has severe refractory epilepsy and lives in full-time care in the UK, whereas Chelsea Leyland, 32, has a manageable form called Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy, and lives in New York working as a DJ and activist.
During this deeply personal and revealing film, we follow the lives of these sisters and gain a unique insight into life with epilepsy. We also watch Chelsea and her family fight to gain Tamsin access to medical cannabis in the UK to help treat her epilepsy, after having success herself with cannabis. Chelsea has been seizure-free since treating herself with cannabis.
If you are interested in supporting or finding out more please contact sophie@captumproductions.com
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3. A call for Testimonials!
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Have you attended a GIANT Health Event in previous years and found it useful for finding a new job opportunity?
If so, we would love to hear from you.
Did you connect with one of the many companies featured at our event? We’re looking for testimonials about your experience so we can showcase the valuable employment opportunities through GIANT Health!
Click here to reach out.
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A Quick Guide to CBD - written by CBD specialist Dr. Julie Moltke. For more information on CBD, Dr. Moltke is a medical doctor with a focus on mental health, stress management, sleep and the medicinal cannabis industry.
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5. Join the Precision Medicine Accelerator Programme
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P4 Precision Medicine Accelerator opens applications for the 2021 programme
Powered by Barclays Eagle Labs, the P4 programme curates a unique ecosystem to support precision medicine SMEs develop research into world leading technology, gain regulatory approval as well as adoption into the UK and international healthcare systems.
Opening for its third cohort, the P4 scaling programme seeks to support the world’s leading precision medicine startups. We want every company within precision medicine to apply. To gain the full benefit from this programme, we recommend that companies:
- Work in the area of Precision Medicine*
- Be early to mid-stage medical device, diagnostic or digital health companies
- Have not yet closed a Series B
- Be data-driven
- Be able to demonstrate their route to market within a timeframe of 12 to 18 months
- Have already received seed/grant funding
- Show team credibility (at least 3 members with complimentary and relevant expertise)
- Have Data Scientist involvement
- Use AI
*Precision (aka personalised) medicine is an approach that will allow doctors and researchers to predict more accurately which treatment and prevention strategies for a particular disease will work in which groups of people.
For any inquiries please contact the team.
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6. Join in the GIANT Health discussion on Twitter.
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5. GIANT Health's 5000 Women Campaign: Meet Teodora Popa
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At GIANT Health we want to encourage our community to share their learnings, technology and passion with us. Wen Ling Choong and Catherine Cheang interviewed Teodora Popa, a scientist and entrepreneur, who is focused on cardiovascular science at University College London (UCL) and the co-founder of Medefine. Medefine is an international mentoring platform which connects doctors and scientists from the UK with students interested in applying for medical school.
Read more about Teodora and the full interview here.
If you would like to be featured in the newsletter as part of our 5000 women campaign and would like to join the team, get in touch.
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6. Health Tech & Innovation: Personalised Products and Services
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Here at GIANT Health we are obsessed with learning about all the new and existing health tech offerings people in our eco-system are working on. We would love to hear your thoughts on what makes a brilliant new personalised health tech offering?
If you would like to discuss this or be featured in the newsletter, get in touch.
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Reasons to be cheerful, Part 3:
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AI and robotics experts from the National Robotarium have started to work on the world's first multi-user robot for healthcare.
The programme will be part of a multi-million pound collaborative effort between European and Asian institutions; SPRING (Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare) is one of the first. Read more here.
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GIANT Health is the global HealthTech innovation community, now over 177,000 people.
Get in touch to discuss partnership opportunities.
Barry Shrier, Founder, GIANT Health
@Barry_HealthTec | +44 7776 132 517
PS: If you're recruiting, looking for a hospital trial partner, in fundraising mode, looking for a job...please get in touch and we'll be happy to support you in this newsletter.
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GIANT would like to thank our sponsors for their support, you guys are great!
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