“If we don’t speak up, they will not hear!”

On November 16 and 17, 2023, the Slovenian Business & Research Association (SBRA) has organized a two-day delegation of Slovenian researchers in Brussels in the field of health, medicine, innovative technology, and advanced materials in medicine.

NIB researchers Metka Novak, Katja Leben and Barbara Breznik presented research activities of National Institute of Biology, at the Research & Innovation Transforming European Healthcare event that was so greatly organized by SBRA and Prof. Dr. Drasko Veselinovic and Brussels-based partners. We heard some amazing pitches from Slovenia, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Hungary and Lithuania that were presented to scientific community, regulatory bodies, policy makers , administrative staff and professional networks in the field of Health and Medicine.

SBRA organized visit to KU Leuven University which remains the top-ranked university in both Belgium and the Benelux region, as well as the fourth university in the European Union. The KU Leuven Association hosts some of the most innovative research potential in the world. We visited first the Health house and discovered the future of health care and continued the tour to the KU Leuven University that was presented by prof. Bart Hendrickx. Prof. Jean- Marie Aerts presented afterwords the Leuven Health Technology Center. The Leuven Health Technology Centre aims to be a transdisciplinary centre that harnesses the innovative potential of technology-enhanced active and healthy living research and opens this up to collaboration with external partners through valorization, technology transfer and commercialization activities. They aim to develop and support the active and healthy living research within the KU Leuven Association through the integration of technological development, biological data analysis and rehabilitation into patient-centric products and services.

Let’s make an impact on society and remember, where there is science there is health!

More info:

• Research & Innovation Transforming European Healthcare - Cut Cancer
• DELEGACIJA RAZISKOVALCEV S PODROČJA ZDRAVJA IN MEDICINE V BRUSELJ | Slovenian Business & Research Association (sbra.be)