Spin-off Fellowships: Three projects funded by MedUni Vienna

The Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG is funding three MedUni Vienna projects as part of its "Spin-off Fellowships" program. The -Spin-off Fellowships- funding programme offers innovative people with an entrepreneurial spirit the opportunity to develop their invention at their university or research institution for up to 18 months so that a company can then be founded. The funding can be used to finance salary costs and ensure access to academic infrastructures so that researchers can use their time exclusively for developing their business ideas. The funding amounts to a maximum of 500,000 euros. "With Spin-off Fellowships, we are specifically strengthening the exploitation of innovative ideas and promoting entrepreneurship at universities and research institutions," said Education, Science and Research Minister Martin Polaschek in a statement. The following three MedUni Vienna projects - and thus a third of the nine funded university projects in Austria - were selected for funding by an international jury: Title: AMERICA (Advanced modular software engines for precision molecular imaging) Fellow: Lalith Shiyam Kumar Sundar, Centre for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at MedUni Vienna Host: Thomas Beyer, Centre for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at MedUni Vienna The project seeks to develop software for rapid image processing in the context of personalised diagnostics. Molecular imaging methods (e.g.