'Excellent Science' prize category

Below are the innovators competing in the 'Excellent Science' category of the Innovation Radar Prize 2017. This prize category aims to recognise excellent scientific work, supported with EU-funding, that is emerging from laboratories around Europe and shows market promise.

Winners

  • Category winner
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    University College Cork

    We develop new ways to ‘see’ different cells in the body. Great opportunities exist to tackle major world diseases such as infectious diseases and cancer, through development of new diagnostics and vaccines.

    Voting is closed. 2314 users have voted.

Finalists

  • Finalist
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    University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

    Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the most powerful methods in medical diagnostics. To push this method far beyond its current limits our team explores a fundamentally new MRI contrast mechanism.

    Voting is closed. 2419 users have voted.
  • Finalist
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    Max Planck MP

    For a new green revolution to feed continually increasing populations, agriculture productivity will have to be significantly improved.

    Voting is closed. 1500 users have voted.
  • Finalist
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    KU Leuven

    Exposure to high noise levels entails more than €40 billion per year in the EU health system. In this context, D-Noise brings to the market a novel distributed network for multi-user active noise equalization.

    Voting is closed. 1376 users have voted.
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    Politecnico di Milano

    Photonics is a powerful technology, but sometimes too complex and too expensive go out of the lab. Spying photons without absorbing them, that’s the key.

    Voting is closed. 848 users have voted.
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    Reactable Systems

    Reactable Systems, as a partner in the EU-finded GIANTSTEPS project, has developed musical expert agents based on the latest findings in Music Information Research (MIR) and Machine Learning (ML), for boosting the musical creativity

    Voting is closed. 252 users have voted.
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    Femtonics

    By rapidly directing light with sound waves in 3D we make thoughts in the brain literally visible as the nerve cells light up and communicate with each other.

    Voting is closed. 142 users have voted.
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    Fraunhofer IAF

    Diamond is not only a unique gemstone, but can also provide a valuable contribution to sustainable energy conversion and storage.

    Voting is closed. 236 users have voted.