The Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba hosts the ITEMAS annual event, supported by Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), with the sponsorship of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Cidi Salud and GENESIS Biomed, CataloniaBio & HealthTech members.

Over two days, around 180 people, including representatives of the 18 ITEMAS nodes and member centers, organizations, sponsors and speakers, discussed about innovation in healthcare, investment, regulation of medical devices, new professions and business experiences.

During the first sessions, the experiences of investors in the health sector were presented through round tables, presentations, and one-to-one meetings. From GENESIS Biomed, the CEO Josep Lluís Falcó participated in the round table of investors, to present new investment funds and talk about the investment situation in the health sector. Falcó, introduced the new investment fund GENESIS Tech Transfer Boost (GTTB), an investment vehicle managed by GENESIS Biomed, which continues the work that began with the first vehicle GENESIS Ventures, now in divestment phase. GTTB is an investment vehicle with a size of 1 million euros that invests tickets between 25,000 and 100,000 euros in very early-stage technologies.

Finally, this year the new healthcare professions were also discussed, as well as business experiences, the internationalization of innovation, etc. In this way, the experts agreed on the importance of public-private collaboration and the productive network in order to transfer the innovations of research centers to the national health system.