The Innovation Contest that Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) has organised in collaboration with "http://accio.gencat.cat/cat/" ACCIÓ and "http://www.roche.es/" Roche has been a success. Last year, its first edition already had a massive involvement, but the organisation decided to open the c ontest to all the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS) hospitals and Catalan research centres accredited by the Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII) and the Medical Technology Innovation Platform (ITEMAS) in this year edition, which has a greater participation. Since its beginnings on 12th March, 67 projects have been presented, 44 derived from healthcare practice and 23 from biomedical research. The names of the winners of the two categories would be announced this Friday 10th of July. The projects, in which 234 professionals, 173 healthcare workers and 93 biomedical research had taken part, come from 13 hospitals and 22 research centres, universities and foundations, which reveals that it has had a great involvement and a wide provenances variety. The VHIR Innovation Contest has become the Catalan Innovation Contest. To make it possible, it has been key the collaboration of 33 health-related companies and 8 public institutions that support the project. It will be announced the 10 finalists of each category as well as the first and second awards of 5,000 and 2,500 € respectively on the 10th of July. Besides, during the event there will be roundtables, innovation world discussions and a networking with companies, investors and contest project’s authors. Public health and economy department authorities of the Government of Catalonia will attend the event as well as ACCIÓ and Roche, who are the contest’s key drivers. - More Information about the event: Time and place: 10th July, from 9:30 on, in the “Sala de Actos del Pavelló Docent” from the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital. "http://www.vhir.org/activitats/relacioactivitats_detall.asp?any=2015&num=178&mv1=4&mv2=1&Idioma=en" Check the timetable. Use #concursvhir to follow the session on Twitter. - Finalist’s projects information: Healthcare practice finalist’s projects: - E-health program for monitoring the early discharge of premature babies. Elisenda Rull Bes, Nurse of research team CRIPS. HUVH 2- Innovation in clinical safety of critical patient: Random Testing in Real Time and Data Management (AASTRE-DaMa). Gonzalo Sirgo, Attending physician in the sepsis, inflammation and security unit. Hospital Joan XXIII de Tarragona 3- Development and validation of a software for measurement of abdominal aortic calcification. UDETMA method. Elvira Fernández, Head of Nefrology Department. Hospital Universitario Arnau de Vilanova de Lleida. 4- Portable navigation system for greater accuracy in total knee arthroplasty. Nayana Joshi Jubert, Specialist in Orthopaedic Surgery. HUVH 5- Multifunction closed circuit valvular connection. Silvia Bosch, Nursing supervisor of neurorehabilitation, Orthopaedic Surgery and traumatology. HUVH 6- Thoracic retention and safety device. Javier Pérez Acebo, Nurse of emergency service. Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí 7- Negative pressure therapy + oxygenation. Carlos Moreno, Supervisor of the burn unit. HUVH 8- NoaH: Neonatologist at home. Albert Pla, Post-doctoral researcher. Universidad de Girona 9- Development of a guided growth implant to treat leg length discrepancies and torsional deformities in children. César Galo García Fontecha, Specialist in Orthopaedic Surgery and traumatology. HUVH 10- Development of a surgical device for sutureless vascular anastomosis. Jordi Descarrega, Resident doctor of the Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Unit. Hospital Clínic Biomedical research finalist’s projects: 1- Liver on a chip: New device to drug characterization, toxicology, personalized medicine and liver disease treatment. Jordi Gracia-Sancho, Ramón y Cajal researcher in the liver hemodynamics group. IDIBAPS 2- Neuropilin-1 detection (NRP-1) in urine as prognostic biomarker in lupus nephritis. Cristina Solé, Post-doctoral researcher of the Lupus group. VHIR 3- Development of a kit based on blood mitochondrial biomarkers for early Alzheimer's disease detection. Marta Barrachina, Principal Investigator in the Institute of Neuropathology. Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge 4- MicroApp: development of a mobile application for the diagnosis of malaria in low-income countries. Mateu Espasa, Specialist in Microbiology department. HUVH 5- CeliFast, Rapid diagnosis of celiac disease at point of care based on magneto platforms. Jean-Didier Maréchal, Leader of the molecular design oriented to biotechnological systems group. UAB 6- Pushing Myc inhibition to the clinic using cell penetrating peptides. Laura Soucek, Principal Investigator of the Mouse Models of Cancer Therapies group. VHIO 7- Cardiopatch: Digital Bio-patches for monitoring newborns with congenital heart diseases. Ferran Rosés, Head of the pediatric cardiology unit, HUVH. Xavier Muñoz, Director of Biomems, CNM-CSIC. 8- Development of a microfluidic chip for the early diagnosis of Malaria. Adrián Sánchez Montalvá, Specialist in infectious diseases. HUVH 9- Gene Therapy for MNGIE using a new orphan drug consisting of an adeno-associated vector carrying. Javier Torres, Post-doctoral researcher in the mitochondrial and neuromuscular diseases group. VHIR 10- Use of a specific assay for the quantification of Apo J-Glycosylated levels for the early detection and risk stratification of patients with acute myocardial infarction. Judit Cubedo, Junior researcher. Instituto Catalán de Ciencias Cardiovasculares