Corify Care SL

Corify Care's CEO and researcher, Andreu Climent has been proclaimed winner in the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Awards for the development of 'Acorys', a medical device that helps in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.

These EIT Awards ceremony, showcases the achievements of successful graduates, entrepreneurs and innovators supported by the EIT Community, celebrating the leading entrepreneurial talent including women innovators, start-ups, scale-ups, and innovative projects that Europe has to offer. The researcher has won the EIT Innovators award, which recognizes the importance of teams and people who have developed high-impact products and services.

Climent celebrated the award - which was announced yesterday - and stressed that “the support of the European Institute of Technology for the Corify project, valuing it in the Innovator of the Year Award, is an enormous boost that helps us to continue go ahead and make our research available to all patients with cardiac arrhythmias as soon as possible.” This award, he pointed out, is "the result of the hard work of a huge team of people working hard, from Corify, Itaca at the UPV, the Gregorio Marañon Hospital, Genesis Biomed and so many other agents who are helping us."

The EIT Awards stands out the most talented entrepreneurs in Europe who drive solutions to the urgent challenges facing the continent in issues such as climate, energy, food, health and raw materials. They include five categories, provide an incentive for the work of entrepreneurs and promote innovation with a European stamp.

CORIFY CARE, awarded of the Quality Innovation Award (QIA) for its ACORYS innovation, will represent Spain in the international phase of the QIAs.

• On Friday, December 4th at 11a.m., the European awarded organizations will present their innovations in an event that can be followed remotely through  streaming here ww.centrosdeexcelencia.com
• The QIA Awards highlight innovative projects of companies and organizations with the aim of increasing their competitiveness and that of the participating countries.

CORIFY CARE SL has been awarded in the INNOVATION IN THE HEALTH SECTOR category for its innovation ACORYS®, a non-invasive solution for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases based on the combination of electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI), 3D reconstruction and artificial intelligence. The National Association of Centers for Excellence, CEX, will recognize seven Spanish organizations as winners of the national phase of the Quality Innovation Award, QIA, a competition created in 2007 by Excellence Finland to promote innovative projects in companies and organizations, to share experiences and to give local and international recognition to the best.

Corify Care CEO and co-founder, Andreu M. Climent has been nominated for the 2020 EIT Innovation award (https://eit.europa.eu/eit-awards-2020/nominees/eit-health-andreu-martinez-climent-es). The EIT’s mission is to create an environment that enables entrepreneurship and innovation to flourish across Europe and beyond. To support this, the EIT organises annual awards to showcase some of the leading entrepreneurial talent, women innovators, start-ups, scale-ups, innovative projects and entrepreneurial talent that Europe has to offer.

Corify Care celebrates this nomination as the opportunity to promote innovation and recognise the fundamental support of EIT in showing the flowchart from research to market: “The network has provided introductions to many experts in areas including investment, management, production, regulation, and market access, which are helping to build a team that makes the innovation progress and succeed” (Dr. Climent). Dr. Andreu M. Climent has been nominated in this category thanks to ACORYS, the innovative medical device that combines software and hardware to help with the diagnosis and treatment of heart rhythm disorder. The advantage of ACORYS is double: it can help with more precise diagnosis and more efficient surgery.

An international jury composed of three experts will evaluate the applications based on the criteria of originality of the new product, efficiency and effectiveness of the team, social and potential and real economic impact and pitch. The public online voting is opened being the 9th December the EIT Awards online ceremony. Vote Dr. Climent and help us to cure severe heart conditions!

Solving Inaccuracies in Anatomical Models for Electrocardiographic Inverse Problem Resolution by Maximizing Reconstruction Quality. Rodrigo M, Climent AM, Liberos A, Hernandez-Romero I, Arenal A, Bermejo J, Fernandez-Aviles F, Atienza F, Guillem MS.

IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2018 Mar;37(3):733-740

Non-Invasive Assessment of Complexity of Atrial Fibrillation: Correlation with Contact Mapping and Impact of Ablation. Rodrigo M, Climent AM, Hernández-Romero I, Liberos A, Baykaner T, Rogers AJ, Alhusseini M, Wang PJ, Fernández-Avilés F, Guillem MS, Narayan SM, Atienza F.

Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2020 Feb 13.