Offer to companies

We create Value for Business and Society, acquiring, generating and transferring knowledge in the field of Health and Well-Being.

Rehabilitation

Neuro-Rehabilitation

• Rehabilitation robotics and functional electrical stimulation for physical training and motor learning
• Tools to quantitatively assess the functional improvement
• Technologies allowing outpatient and home rehabilitation
• New methods for assessing motor and cognitive learning and training in terms of neuronal changes

Orthopaedic rehabilitation

• Technologies that aim to aid recovery from musculoskeletal injuries, and minimize and/or compensate for any functional alterations
• Smart materials for support of function or recovery
• Biosignal sensing and feedback – Garments and Orthoses

E- Health

Telecare

• Advanced service platforms and solutions for integrated health and social care
• Remote monitoring of people's behavior at home
• Early preventive detection of behavioral changes

Telehealth

• Remote monitoring of vital signs
• Home-based solutions for chronic diseases
• Adherence to pharmacological treatment

mHealth

• Personalized healthcare applications.
• Novel approaches to healthcare

Assistive Technologies

Interaction

• Support products for people with auditory and visual disabilities.
• Interfaces, systems and devices that improve the communication of the elderly and the disabled.
• AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) solutions for the home, workplace and life in general
• Robotics for manipulation and haptic technologies

Cognitive

• Systems to support or help people with a cognitive disability to undertake day-to-day activities
• Cognitive training
• Multi-sensorial education at home and in the workplace

Bioprocesses & Preservation

New foodstuffs

• Healthier and/or functional foods.
• Bioactive compounds.
• Protection, addition and controlled release of bioactive compounds.
• Micro- and Nanoencapsulation of ingredients.
• Biotechnological processes.
• "In vitro" testing for the evaluation of ingredients.
• Bioactivity studies for functional compounds.
• Identification and quantification of new chemical pollutants.

Preservation

• Production of edible/biodegradable films and coatings
• Biopolymers blending and modification. Bio-nanoreinforcements obtaining and incorporation.
• Physicochemical and functional characterisation of biomaterials.
• Antimicrobial/antioxidant active packaging system.
• Smart packaging systems.

Enology

• Innovative technologies with applications in the wine industry to improve food quality and safety.
• Isolation, selection and immobilisation of indigenous autochthonous wine yeasts.
• New technologies for optimisation of every production stage.
• Analytical methodologies and analysis of specific compounds in grape, wine and auxiliary materials.
• By-products valorisation.

Biomaterials

Devices and materials for in vivo use

• Biodegradable matrices for tissue regeneration.
• Non-degradable materials for bone implants with controlled porosity.
• Surface functionalization of devices by click chemistry, carbodiimide chemistry, etc.
• Biodegradable materials for advanced therapies (polymeric coatings and nanoparticles for drug delivery, injectable hydrogels for cell therapy, etc.)

Biological assessment

• CE marking, issuance of certificate of compliance to ISO 10993 standards.
• Characterization of the biological impact of new materials and products.
• Nano-safety: assessment of the biological impact of nanomaterials (cell uptake, mutagenicity, pro-inflammatory activity, etc.)

In vitro diagnostic devices and cell-based assays

• Materials and enabling technologies for in vitro 3D cell cultures.
• Custom design of polystyrene-based consumables.
• Biosensors integrating carbon nanotubes.