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VdTech rocks : Lausanne-based Precisia Care SA Care, use real-time clinical data directly collected from hospital operations to enable actionable AI-driven predictions and recommendations, has secured CHF 1 million in funding. In addition to this funding achievement, Precisia Care, incubated at La Forge part of the EPFL Innovation Park, was recognized as one of eight winners of the Future of Health Grant (FoHG), an initiative supported by EPFL Innovation Park and CSS, during its fifth call for projects. The raised capital will facilitate advancements in its data-driven systems, alongside launching critical marketing and commercial activities to achieve its 2025 strategic goals. #vdtech #health #healthtech #medtech #startup Anis GHORBEL Emna Megdiche Mathilde Durvy Nicolas Loeillot 🔵Jolan Vilchien🔵 Jan-Niklas Kramer Sandra Rey Greater Geneva Bern area (GGBa) Thomas Bohn Shun ZHOU #Innovation Laurent Kirsch Therabel #fundingnews #fundraising #venture #ventures H4 Truchot-Cardot Dominique Clinique de La Source Olga Matveeva, PhD Simone Theiss

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After almost 3 dedicated years, my way is parting with mobile Health AG. 🧳 When I look back, I see a huge experience-chain in digital health care market with uncountable remarkable points. Whether you are a large or small team, it definitely needs a great orchestration and an umbrella mindset to develop and keep a digital health app📱in the market. Spending thousands of minutes for paper works, keeping your mind, your company and your product in the scope of regulations, developing agile tech-stacks, managing audits, providing patient's safety and maintaining all these ecosystem sustainably alive. It's a big game by harmonizing human and computer interaction in parallel layers of various disciplines. A memorable story to tell anytime and nonetheless peaceful feeling to contribute world wide digital health knowledge base. 🧬 I wish new team to accomplish all necessary performance metrics as close as to my core team's super-dedicated efforts in order to keep this endless ecosystem alive and growing. Thanks to MHAG for all contributions to my personal career. It's time to re-focus on new digital health ideas, high technology products and AI oriented world. Today welcomes to future. #digitalhealth #welcometofuture

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Germany is taking the "virtual wards" of the NHS as a role model: leading German hospital chain Asklepios has just launched Germany's first “virtual hospital wards”. I wrote down a few thoughts. 1️⃣ "𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 (𝐑𝐏𝐌)" 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐝-𝐭𝐨-𝐄𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 Leveraging technology to remotely manage patients has been a topic for 20+ years. For some reasons, it had never really scaled. During the COVID phase, the NHS, facing a shortage of beds, introduced virtual wards—an end-to-end solution, unlike many other RPM concepts that simply send extra data to already overworked physicians & nurses. And "Virtual Wards" sounds better than "Remote Patient Monitoring" ;) 2️⃣ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 Virtual wards across England are diverse, with different patient populations, referral pathways, technology use and staffing models. It makes generalising evidence across them challenging. The vast majority of studies showed clear (cost) benefits. But some studies also showed that virtual wards can actually increase costs (Jalilian et al., BMJ). "Virtual wards are unlikely to be a panacea, and it’s unlikely every virtual ward model will be successful across all outcomes. What outcomes should be prioritised, and how should these be measured?". (The Health Foundation) 3️⃣ 𝐀𝐬𝐤𝐥𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐬' 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐬. During this time of hospital crisis and nervousness around financing reform in Germany, Asklepios is still pushing its transformation. What's especially interesting is that many payors are involved, meaning new reimbursement codes for virtual wards and RPM should be defined. This is urgent: #Germany is behind with only one RPM reimbursement code (for heart failure), while France reimburses RPM for many health conditions. 4️⃣ 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 VC a16z explains how tech is unbundling hospitals through new digital entry points and vertical carve-outs, turning hospitals into one touchpoint in a digital care journey. E. Emanuel, former Obama health advisor, agrees: "Hospitals are disappearing. They may never fully vanish, but they will shrink in number and importance. That’s inevitable and good." Former Harvard professor Clayton Christensen also echoed this, often stating that "the hospital business model is broken." ----- The NHS will be widely represented at HLTH Europe next year in June in Amsterdam. Make sure you attend. #virtualwards #nhs #healthtech #healthcare #rpm

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No p𝐀𝐈n no g𝐀𝐈n? This or something similar could have been the title of this year's BioTechX in Basel: For two days, everything revolved around #data, #AI and #innovation in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector. It is not surprising and yet astonishing how pervasive the topic of #LLM and AI was this year. Malicious tongues may say that one or two companies have reinvented themselves with old wine in new bottles (and a little 𝐀𝐈 glitter). My conclusion: LLMs and #knowledgemanagement (via #RAG and/or semantic search) are king - but you still have to do your homework - i.e. data cleansing - beforehand. Then the new bling-bling could be fun. Apart from that, it was again a pleasure to make old and new contacts and to discuss :)

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What I learned from last week IT’s ABOUT TECH #8: «Showcasing GenAI at work and discussing how LLM will change software development» In adapting Tech our society works like an immune system, first it’s defensive then adaptive. So, when a pathogen, aka a new piece of tech, appears the reaction is normally alarming, if not hysterical and irrational. This was exactly the case with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLM): Industries were to be disrupted, Jobs to vanish and even humanity to go extinct. Then, following the Gartner Hype Cycle, the adaptive immune system kicks in: the new tech has to actually land in our reality, and it's mostly a soft landing. To be adopted it’s more the new piece of tech that needs to be mutated in order to find its place in our everyday life. And this is actually where we are with GenAI and LLMs: 1) Become invisible There is no business model for standalone GenAI Consumer products. No one will pay 30 dollar and more per month to use AI-Tools. So, the only way to go is to embed GenAI into the existing operation systems thus becoming a more or less invisible blackbox to users. 2) The winner takes even more This will undoubtedly strengthen the de facto monopolies of Big Tech. Albeit still leaving room for local players, aka swiss made software, for doing the adoption work by implementing these GenAI-tools responding to specific needs of their markets. 3) Software development - disruption or democratization? The software industry itself will probably be affected by GenAI in a more drastic way than imagined. The panelist at the event reported that 20 percent of their coding work was already being automated, with a strong potential to grow toward 50 percent and more. But this is not necessary a bad thing, especially in areas where the lack of resources, aka talent, is the biggest barrier to digitalization. 4) European Alternative to Big Tech? Even though it is not quite clear what it encompasses open source GenAI represents an alternative to all those uncomfortable with working on the foundation of a big tech black box — a sentiment that is easy to understand. But, to gain ground and to build a veritable ecosystem, it is clear that an extra effort is needed, and it is also clear that this can only come out of Europe. The question here is less if it will happen, but: can the European, aka Swiss tech industry, afford to wait, until it actually does happen? The videos and presentations of IT’s ABOUT TECH #8 can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eHK2_Tp4 A big thank you to the presenters: Kristina Djordjevic, Ouisseme HSINE, Peter Grimvall, Nikola Miladinovic, Matthias Egli, Ixchel Ruiz A big thank you to our Sponsors: Swiss Life, ti&m, cyon | Das Zuhause für deine Webprojekte, PRODYNA, b.telligent, Karakun and baseltech / The Office of Economy and Labour, Canton of Basel-Stadt

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🌍 BioTechX Europe Congress 2024 - A Glimpse into the Future of Clinical Development 🌱 The past two days at the BioTechX Europe Congress in Basel were truly inspiring. The event was excellently organized, with many vendors showcasing innovative HealthCare AI products. Major pharmaceutical companies presented their achievements, but one recurring theme still persists: the enormous development costs. During the panel discussion, "Driving Clinical Development for Affordable Care," chaired by Thorsten Alexander Rall (Capgemini), Sam Khalil, PhD (Novo Nordisk), Robert McGregor Novartis, and Alexander Krupp shared their insights. A striking moment was when Alexander mentioned that AI could reduce development costs by up to a thousandfold if applied correctly. This caught my attention – why are we not fully leveraging this potential? Companies like Insilico Trials (and others) have been developing technologies for years that dramatically accelerate drug development, reduce animal testing, and significantly cut R&D costs. Around five years ago, efforts were made to engage big pharma companies in exploring these opportunities, but perhaps the timing wasn’t right back then Now, after two days in Basel, I wonder if the industry is really moving forward. It seems possible that, in one to three years, we may still be asking why these development costs remain so high. What is the biggest barrier? I often hear the answer: data structure. Yet, there are already promising research-innovations (outside of Europe), such as Xenobots – synthetic organisms with living bodies and AI-driven brains. Although still in their infancy, these technologies could be groundbreaking in the future, not only in medicine but also in environmental protection and beyond. Yes, ethical considerations are certainly a must-have conversation, but we should not always impose barriers and rules on ourselves when it comes to fostering and advancing true, pioneering innovations Let’s make sure these two days in Basel are not just remembered as another great event. It’s time to move beyond just talking about broken data structures and start crafting a real vision for medical innovation. The opportunities are "almost" here; we just need to seize them. 💡 I’m curious to see if, in three years, we will look back on this discussion and say that we’ve taken the right steps forward.

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What is the happy path for developers? It’s less boredom, and more play 🎶 Don't miss the first Swiss Dev Confederation on September 17th in Zurich. ℹ DevOps is just the first step in a new era of software development. The future lies in platforms, which are like building blocks – scalable and reusable, enabling companies to develop and deliver software even faster and more efficiently than ever before. 💡 The best way to achieve this is by making developers happy and more productive. At the same time, AI is leveraged to create smarter, more adaptive applications, further driving innovation and efficiency in software development. Do you want to know more? https://lnkd.in/gf7Fwa22 📅 Join us at Swiss Dev Confederation, September 17th in Zurich and meet the open source experts

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Do you want to find out how our xista science ventures #portfolio company contextflow supports #radiologists in #cancer diagnostics using advanced #ai? Check out the article below ⬇️

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DataRobot demonstrates #ai #predictivemodeling #value across Germany's Universitätsmedizin Mannheim #healthcare hospital, by leading #patientcare #innovation for the 250,000 patients, triaged across 21 clinics annually. This is leading to an improved: Quality of Life (QoL) improvement for 30% of patients. https://lnkd.in/gZ_qYeEb #timeseries #visualai #regulation #governance

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🇨🇭Another great Swiss Systems Engineering Day is in the books 🇨🇭 Last but not least our friend Ettore Marzocchi from Novartis presented the deployment and application of MBSE and use of processes, methods and tools based on the Novartis MBSE Framework for Pharma Combined Products powered by :em engineering methods AG . Thank you very much for sharing your journey with us and looking forward to the next episode 😉 Hope to see you again at #SWISSED2025 and meet us also at #TdSE2024 in Leipzig in November, where we offer workshops, a lot of presentations and talks at our booth. #SystemEngineeringRocks🤘 #WeDeliverTheDigitalFutureOfEngineeringAndBeyond

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I already felt there was something wrong with our automation workflows 15 years ago ... One winter after I came back from my first project in China, there came an urgent request to drive to Dresden to help another engineering company finish the pre-FAT preparations for a big vaccine plant. We get in a car and get on the road. As we arrive, there's a room full of automation engineers. About 20 people. Still in full programming mode. We ask "how can we help"? them: "The programs are failing in the pre-FAT tests" we: "Why?" they: "Must be some some bugs in the library" We sit down and try to get a couple of functionalities running on our own laptops. No bugs in the library. But the main code implementing the libraries has little mistakes. Not a tremendous amount. But enough to not have anything working. Now what was going on? Those 20 engineers were programming against the functional/software analysis. Those documents were pretty good, they were already reviewed by multiple people. The engineers also didn't have to invent new things. Just translate the docs into code. So it was basically just small mistakes getting into the code because of the manual conversion. And because of the time pressure they didn't have time to do enough intermediate tests. So we spent about 2 months pre-testing all the functions. Finding all the bugs. Searching for the needles in the haystack. And we found almost all of them. 🙂 They finally passed a succesfull FAT. There was some delay, but not considerable, especially taking into account the state they were in. Our intervention was considered a great success. However that team went on to another project, probably just to run into the same issue again. And as I started taking on and managing bigger projects and teams, I also ran into the same problems. Of course I learned how to plan around it: take enough time, early testing, manage the projects tightly, ... . Also make sure the libraries and program structure were set up properly from the start. Because there is almost no possibility for refactoring in many automation projects. And we actually became pretty good at it. But it always kept nagging: we had to pour so much manual effort and experience into these projects to make them successful, while actually a big part is repetitive and should be routine. We barely had tools help us lock in experiences. And because of all that manual effort there was almost no time to build better things on top of it. (A classical example is better error handling UIs for the operators) 15 years ago it would have been difficult to propose a better approach. But today mindsets are shifting, engineering tools are opening up and there is an increasing demand for scalable automation. That's why I launched Acceleer 🥷🚀

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Ergon goes Test-Consulting! We’ve all experienced it, didn’t we? - The overwhelming rush of new information - Unpredictable supplier behaviour - Or the intense pressure of product launches. In short, the uncertainty of software projects Uncertainty is simply part of the journey but it begs the question, is it enjoyable? Meet the Keas, Ergon’s Testing Team! We are here to help. We are professional knowledge workers: through empirical experiments and professional learning, we gather critical information about your software project, turning uncertainty into actionable knowledge. Why does it matter to you? Uncertainty can cause anxiety and stress, leading to poor conclusions and decisions. This can delay your software projects or, worse, tarnish your professional reputation. But what if you could turn uncertainty into your greatest strength? We are well aware that there are uncertainties and the unknown; Instead of preparing for them and waiting for them to emerge, we have decided to work with them. Incorporation them into our testing. We believe that achieving your vision requires a robust and adaptive system to support your goals. Our approach emphasises structured learning and the power of effective tools to drive professional growth and enhance collaboration. With our unique Thinking Tools methodology and the Scientific Method, we empower you to make informed decisions based on actionable information. Are you ready to transform uncertainty into your competitive edge? Let us show you how Ergon Testing can turn challenges into opportunities! https://lnkd.in/diSMWStS Sandro.Ibig(at)ergon.ch

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𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻! It’s okay if you don’t know how to do things or if you’re slow.  Just don’t stop!   You may never be good enough in the eyes of others.   But honestly, why care?  𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟳   When people told me:   You want to do what?!   You want to build expert testers out of what?!   Interns? Interns fresh out of high school?   Interns who can compete with “real” testers? After a year?!   Are you nuts? Don’t do that! You’ll ruin your career! You’ll end up as a joke.   And how will you accomplish that?   Oh, you want to create your own test academy.   Oh, you’re one of those…   And who’s going to pay for it?   Oh, you’ll create it in your free time?   Good luck with that!  You’re not such-and-such.   You don’t have a real degree.   YOU ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH.  𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰  We’ve come a long way, and it started with an idea, passion, a stubborn guy who doesn’t know when to quit, and amazing interns who did their best.   It didn’t stop with interns. Others came along who shared my dream. I couldn’t wish for better fellow testers.   Year after year, we made things better—and yes, we failed too. But that’s part of the game.  𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰   Ergon goes Test-Consulting! https://lnkd.in/d6z-7PA3 We don’t have as many interns anymore.   But what we do have is a few PhDs, Masters, and Bachelors from various fields who fell in love with our testing—my testing.  𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻!  Not good enough?   I love it!   Nothing else gives you this kind of rush.  You know when you're not good at something and suddenly it clicks?   You take a baby step, and it feels exhilarating, empowering.   Seek that feeling over and over again.  Look for things you don’t know.   Things that are hard.   Things that feel out of reach.  Play the long game.   Play it slowly.   AND JUST DON’T STOP.  You will 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀 others because at some point they get good, get complacent and stop.

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🌐 Navigating Security Testing Across Regulatory Frameworks 🌐 I’d like to share some thoughts on a challenge that many of us in the industry face: the inefficiency of security testing in relation to various regulatory frameworks. Currently, we find ourselves conducting specific security tests for DiGA in Germany, but it’s concerning that our existing measures often don’t suffice as evidence across the board. This raises the question: why can’t we design a security test that meets the requirements of multiple frameworks simultaneously (and is accepted by all regulatory bodies)? When we focus on DiGA’s security tests, we discover that they don’t always align with other security criteria, leading to an increase in the number of assessments we must undertake. After analyzing our annual external expenses (over EUR. 150k a year now) solely dedicated to security, it's clear that these costs add up significantly—not to mention the additional (necessary) investments required for privacy and MDR/QMS compliance. I’m reaching out to see if anyone has experience in effectively mapping the security requirements between German (especially DiGA) and Dutch regulations. Is it possible to create a comprehensive, annual security test that satisfies all regulatory bodies? I believe finding a solution to streamline these recurring expenses is crucial for our industry’s future. Let’s connect and share insights! #informationsecurity #DiGA #digitalhealth #ISMS

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Currently reading "Smart Until It's Dumb" and I highly recommend it to all #AI specialists who are currently fixing the world with their OpenAI licenses (and a dream 🫶). Emmanuel Maggiori debunks the #GenAI hype by providing a realistic view on #LLM, showing strengths and weaknesses of the technology beyond marketing slides and useless showcase scenarios. https://lnkd.in/esyNup4S

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Due to some lunch talks in the last weeks about books, i thought it could be valuable for you, to share a bit about my book readings from this year. No. 1 "Gamification, Digitization and Industry 4.0" is an interesting book for anyone dealing with the creation of new SaaS products, the future of work and general tech. management. It offers from my opinion valuable insights into the opportunities that arise from the digital transformation and shows how gamification can be used to seize these opportunities. In all of the three dimensions: product development, future of work and management as such. Everything explained on real gamification examples. Target group: all product developer, product manager and software manager, software developer, ux folks which are or want to work in the SaaS business or/and are (they should!) interested in the future of work. https://lnkd.in/eAWYGMUB #gamification #industry40 #digital #futureofwork #book #recommendation

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To Mom is To Love latest Substack post: Recognizing Inattentional Blindness: What is it and how can it help us be more mindful? Inattentional blindness occurs when one does not see an object right in front of them. I recently experienced this phenomenon when we lost a library book. I could not find it anywhere! I checked the kids’ back packs, bedrooms, and basement. It seemed to have just disappeared. However, a few days later, I found it right on top of my counter! It was just under my nose the entire time. This happens to us all. Our visual field consists of blind spots we do not notice because the brain filters them. Have you ever looked for a can in the pantry and discovered it is within reach? Our eyes can only focus on so much at once for the mind to interpret all that is seen. This can also apply to what one chooses to think about. Our thoughts can be like a visual overload comparable to looking for something in the house. It is easy to miss what is right in front of us when we have mental blinders on. Our kids’ playfulness or even potential friendships. Sometimes it is easy to ruminate about what went wrong in the past instead of what is right here in the present. David Steindl-Rast states we feel “grateful” when there is the combination of a gift deemed subjectively valuable and it is given without the expectation of anything in its return. He also points out similarly, we can live with feelings of gratitude moment by moment. This is because, in essence, each moment we have is a gift. We did not do anything to receive this bit of time nor do we have control of the next moment. The present is in fact right under our noses all the time. I like to remind myself of a quote by Gretchen Rubin: The days are long but the years are short. There are 3,652 days in 10 years. This is about 1.5 big bags of candies. Similarly, 3,652 days are long, but 10 years is short. I try to remind myself to savor the moment: the colors and feelings. Let us remove our blind spots to the present because another 3,652 days will soon be an instant.

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Today I have a video of Simplicissimus about how a German saved the Internet. The video is in German, but I can recommend it to anyone interested in cybersecurity. https://lnkd.in/eGkVeWTD #Cybersecurity #Cybersecurityanalyst #BlueTeam #SOC #linux #hacking #cyberdefense #kali #cyberlearning #RedTeam #Pentester #GitHub #Simplicissimus

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📈 How can #DigitalHealth technologies and other measures help to paint an accurate picture of the impact of a treatment on how a patient actually feels and functions? 👉 This is the question at the heart of one of our IHI call 8 topics! Want to help find the answers? Apply to be part of the project via https://europa.eu/!fqGjrV #IHITransformingHealth #HorizonEU #HealthResearch COCIR EFPIA - European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations EuropaBio - the European Association for Bioindustries MedTech Europe Vaccines Europe

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