Plio Surgical

🌟 Announcing the Catapult 2024 Winners! 🌟 We are thrilled to celebrate the outstanding achievements of this year’s Catapult participants. Their resilience and dedication to advancing healthcare have truly set them apart. 🏆 Life Sciences 1st Place: Celex Oncology Innovations Ltd 🏆 Healthtech 1st Place: Acorai 👏 Alex Casta Audience Award: Dymium We thank our amazing sponsors who have also selected their winners and awarded them with prestigious industry prizes. Acorai awarded by Amazon Web Services (AWS) Plio Surgical, MEDICUD and Dymium awarded by eg technology Ltd Digistain® Acorai and Five Lives awarded by Lusíadas Saúde Acorai and Exhalation Technology Ltd by AstraZeneca Are you part of a European start-up seeking intensive training, enhanced credibility, and pan-European visibility? This is your opportunity! 🚀 Applications are now open for the next Catapult edition. Don’t miss your chance to join this transformative journey. [https://lnkd.in/ez7s8W_5

We're looking forward to the Dublin Tech Summit over the next two days! Join us for the discussion "Innovating Change: HealthTech Solutions for Better Patient Outcomes," where our CEO, Cristina Purtill, will share insights and experiences on how cutting-edge technology is transforming patient care and improving outcomes. She will be joined by Barbara Oliveira of Luminate Medical and moderated by Jean Redmond, PhD of biologit. 🗓 Date: 30 May 2024 🕒 Time: 3:10 PM 📍 Location: Dublin Tech Summit, RDS #DublinTechSummit #HealthTech #Innovation #PatientOutcomes #Leadership #Technology

Dr. Cormac Farrelly of University College Dublin spin-out LaNua Medical, was presented with the Big Idea’s Award by Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Peter Burke at Enterprise Ireland’s Start-Up Day 2024 in Dublin Castle. As part of the Big Ideas award, LaNua Medical, which is developing solutions for problems in embolization, will now represent Ireland at the Pegasus Start-Up World Cup in San Francisco later in the year. Cristina Purtill of Plio Surgical received the Big Ideas runner-up award for the company’s magnetic anastomosis device for gastrointestinal surgery and will also travel to San Francisco to attend the Start-Up World Cup. Find out more Silicon Republic: https://lnkd.in/ebbwhzF8 

What a great day it was at the global investor forum with Daan Hittema! Hearing inspiring pitches from 29 (!!) startups in one afternoon certainly means my brain is exploding but how exciting to see how better futures are being built just like we love doing at IDE Group! To top it off our entrant Plio Surgical won the Catalyze Group award for best pitch and both Plio Surgical and LAYCO are through to the finals on the big stage at Innovation for Health main event tomorrow! Congratulations Gareth Gallagher and Thom Weustink! Great to see them being recognised by others as well. Can't be more proud and good luck to all finalists! Looking forward to engage with many more people tomorrow. Reach out to meet up or drop by table 46 close to the plenary room on the 1st floor. IDE Group Innovation for Health Hyphen Projects Daan Hittema Nikolai Chikovskii Glenn Griffioen Renate Boekee - Hulst Philip van Griethuijsen Jacky Cai Ané du Toit George Sidis  Richard Sokolov Nikki Wood Kirsty Amland Leah Trend Kent DiasAbeygunawardena Alexandra Low Smythe #medtech #innovation #healthcare #partnership

🙌 Exciting news from the 2024 European Prize for Women Innovators! We are thrilled to see four women innovators from our EIT Health-supported programmes being celebrated by European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) and EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology. ✨ Proud moment as our supported innovators from Ireland are recognised at a pan-European level. 🏆 Barbara Oliveira, CTO and Co-Founder, Luminate Medical, for being recognised as a runner up in the Rising Innovators category. "This is the recognition of many years of hard work in bringing Luminate’s innovation to solve the patient experience during cancer treatment to light," said Barbara. 🏆 Cristina Purtill, CEO, Plio Surgical, for being recognised as a runner up in the Women Leadership category. "I see this as an opportunity to inspire others, especially women, to pursue their ambitions with determination and resilience," shared Cristina. 🔎Learn more about each of our winners and their prizes: https://loom.ly/3IkqOHA

Yesterday the Global Investor Forum jury had the very difficult task of picking 9 finalist for todays Start-up Pitch contest powered by Axon Lawyers out of yesterdays 29 amazing pitches. A huge congratulations to these 9 entrepreneurs and good luck today! Daniel Fischer of Tevard Biosciences Amar Kamat of Sencilia Marco De Boer (Ph.D., MBA) of Predica Diagnostics BV June Park, Ph.D. of siRNAgen Therapeutics Johan Pijnenborg of GlycoTherapeutics Marijn van Os of Scinvivo B.V. Minmin Yen, Ph.D., MPH (she/her) of PhagePro Thom Weustink of LAYCO Gareth Gallagher of Plio Surgical A big thank you to yesterdays jury Carine Van Den Brink, Aishwarya Parthasarathy, Peter Haasjes, Marc-Olivier Turgeon, Felice Verduyn - van Weegen, Margherita Marchetti, PhD, Peter van Ruijven and Dieuwke Hooft Graafland. Today our jury Carine Van Den Brink, Lisanne Blauw and Jaap De Bruin will score the 9 finalist and announce our winner. And thank you to Loyens & Loeff Loyens & Loeff Life Sciences Team for hosting us in their beautiful Rotterdam office.

Fantastic event at the Global Investor Forum in Rotterdam for our CTO Gareth Gallagher Thank you for inviting us to it IDE Group! Great opportunity to meet investors and present our vision of making minimally invasive GI surgery safer and easier! Daan Hittema Peter van Ruijven Gareth Gallagher

Announcement: Pitching Start-up at Global Investor Forum! 🚀   We're excited that Gareth Gallagher of Plio Surgical will be pitching at Global Investor Forum! ✨   About Plio Surgical: Plio Surgical, a spin-out of Trinity College Dublin, is pioneering a game-changing magnetic anastomosis device for gastrointestinal (GI) surgery. The technology enables more surgeons to conduct minimally invasive GI surgery with better outcomes for patients and shorter hospital stays. It addresses a significant worldwide unmet need for less invasive surgical solutions for conditions like colon cancer, Crohn’s disease and bariatric surgery.   Read more about Gareth Gallagher & Plio Surgical here: https://lnkd.in/gCjW-mac   🗓️ 27 March 2024 📍Loyens & Loeff office Rotterdam 🔗https://lnkd.in/eWfW8QaC  

Trinity College Dublin spin-out aims to make colon cancer surgery safer and improve long-term patient outcomes "Plio Surgical has developed a minimally invasive medical device that provides a safer alternative to traditional closing and joining techniques in gastric and other surgery" https://lnkd.in/eFjAZZ_d

The Plio Surgical team were delighted to host the IDE Group in Dublin today