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MEDICA exhibition 2022

MEDICA exhibition 2022

DeepEn on the road for the first time at a major trade show!

After a long resting period due to the global pandemic, the world’s biggest trade fair of the medical industry, MEDICA, was held again in Düsseldorf from November 14-17, 2022. With 17 giant exhibition halls, over 5,000 exhibitors from 70 countries, and more than 120,000 visitors, MEDICA is the premier platform for showcasing the latest medical technology, products, and services. The fair brings together healthcare professionals, researchers, medical technology manufacturers, and distributors to exchange ideas, network, and explore the latest advancements in medical technology.

And DeepEn was right in the middle of it all.

Our startup joined a shared booth of the German States of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia under the common slogan “Research for the Future.” It was a great setup, as we got to connect with colleagues from our own local ecosystem, such as Blink-DX, Leibniz Health Technologies, and InfectoGnostics Research Campus. Also, two other young innovative companies, Nanotubetec from Leipzig and Biophotonics Diagnostics GmbH from Jena, were present as well. As a result, interesting conversations never stopped.

To attract visitors’ interest to our part of the booth, the DeepEn team was prepared with flyers and a large roll-up, as well as a 3D printed miniature version of our deep-brain imaging system, NeuroDeep. The preparation paid off since a good number of interested MEDICA visitors came around to discuss medical applications of the hair-thin, holographic endoscopes in fields beyond neuroscience.

We also took the initiative and ventured out from our base, armed with a single-fiber-probe and a tablet with demonstration videos. The plan was to show the capabilities of holographic endoscopes for subcellular and macroscopic imaging to other endoscope manufacturers, to spark a discussion and learn more about the industry. The spontaneous reaction of the MedTech representatives was often disbelief as they wondered how it is physically possible to use a single multimode fiber as an imaging probe. Indeed, there is no other product on the market yet that can apply the innovative technology we are utilizing. In the end, we had several fruitful exchanges, brainstorming further potential use cases in medicine and possibilities for future partnerships.

After several hours on a tour through the different halls of the MEDICA trade fair, we were physically exhausted but also left with a much better feeling for how established industry players do things.

If you are interested in minimally invasive intravital endoscopic imaging for examination of sensitive tissues, especially for imaging of neuronal connectivity in deep brain regions, we invite you to get in touch!

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DeepEn at FENS 2022 – Meeting the brightest minds in Neuroscience.

DeepEn at FENS 2022 – Meeting the brightest minds in Neuroscience.

As a young startup with a technological background in the field of photonics and an ambition to provide helpful tools to neuroscientists, it is very important for the DeepEn Team to understand where modern brain research is moving.

And what would be a better place to get connected with the top of the field than the FENS Forum of neuroscience, the largest international neuroscience meeting in Europe? Therefore, DeepEn Team members Hana and Sergey went to Paris to connect with key-opinion-leaders in the field of brain research and catch up with partners and collaborators that were essential to get holographic endoscopy where it is today. The two used the time of the conference from 9-13 of July 2022 to connect with leading scientists and present and discuss the in-vivo imaging technology with them.

The FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies) conference is renowned for gathering top-tier scientists, researchers, and industry professionals, and serves as an annual platform for knowledge exchange, breakthrough sharing, and collaboration in neuroscience. From the very start of the DeepEn research transfer project, we were sure that FENS was the place to be for us.

And we were very happy that we also had time not only to build new relations, but also strengthen existing once. Our colleagues from ISI-CAS in Brno were at FENS, as well as colleagues from LIN in Magdeburg and the University of Edinburgh. It was in Scotland where DeepEn Co-founders Tomas and Sergey first collaborated with neuroscientists to use the holographic endoscopy for bioimaging successfully. If you are interested, read more about the results of this collaboration in this paper. Meeting up again with the colleagues and brainstorming about prospective future projects gave us a lot of inspiration.

All in all, though we could not yet demonstrate the prototype of DeepEn’s first device, the NeuroDeep V1.0 Laboratory system, we could still gather information, make new contacts, and get the opinion of scientists in the different areas of neuroscience. Be sure that DeepEn will be back at FENS in the near future, then with our own holographic endoscope prototype ready to be showcased.

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