UK has highest number of covid-19 med-tech start-ups in Europe
11 of the 34 on-going covid-19 projects identified by an Oxford University data visualisation spin-out are based in the UK.
Zegami’s research looked at med-tech start-ups in Europe and identified on-going projects in 15 countries including Switzerland, Portugal, Poland, Iceland, Estonia and Ukraine. After the UK, Switzerland came out as home to the second-highest number of projects, with four.
Zegami is itself working on a project that uses x-rays of lungs infected with covid-19 to build a robust machine learning model to assist healthcare professionals in identifying the virus.
Roger Noble, chief executive and founder of Zegami, said: “It is very encouraging to see such a positive and proactive response from Europe’s start-up med-tech sector in the fight against covid-19. Many, like us, are also providing their services for free.
“There is little doubt that the industry has a huge role to play in defeating this disease.”
