The University of Helsinki conducts world-class research that produces the latest knowledge and solutions for global challenges. The University’s Slush section will feature a total of 13 innovations at different stages of the commercialisation process. At Slush, they will look for partners, entrepreneurs and funders.
Slush 2017
Fueling smart mobility – creating data and insights from everyday movement
Proprietary AI and machine learning algorithms for advanced movement recognition of people, vehicles and their mobility in smart cities. Especially suitable for gathering any movement related data using smartphones or wearables.
Read article: Moprim sensing people on the move
Petri Martikainen
+358 50 5500666
petri@moprim.com
Convenient glucose monitoring – a needle-free solution for diabetics
Scientific breakthrough that can help 400 million diabetics and 1.9 billion overweight people to live healthier.
Read article: GlucoModicum: Needle-free & painless glucose monitoring
Jokke Mäki
+358 40 5860946
jokke.maki@outlook.com
The best preschool of the world – Finnish early education as a scalable model
The excellence of Finnish early education available all over the world as a scalable model. Combining playful curiosity and creativity with deep, scientific know-how about learning.
Read article: HEI Schools turns the Finnish kindergarten into an export-ready package
Milla Kokko
+358 40 8600277
milla.kokko@heischools.com
Vaccination against cancer – educating immune system to detect and destroy cancer cells
A therapeutic cancer vaccine PeptiCRAd is a genetically engineered adenovirus coated with pieces from cancer cells. Tumor cell pieces on the virus surface instruct the activated killer T-cells to target and destroy cancer cells everywhere in the body.
Read article: Valo Therapeutics: therapeutic cancer vaccines that educate the body's immune system to destroy cancer cells
Michael Stein
+44 7970 830714
michael.stein@valotx.com
Aid for dementia – better life quality for people with dementia
Non-pharmacological rehabilitation for people with dementia and their caregivers through an e-learning service. Focus on good interaction skills that are the key to quality dementia care.
Read article: Memocate supports interaction with memory disorder patient
Heikki Viitanen
+358 44 0998996
heikki@memocate.com
3D imaging down to nanometres – fast and easy 3D imaging tools for researchers
Cover slips that make standard 2D microscopes perform in 3D, and a new label-free superresolution 3D microscope. Tools that make 3D & true nanoimaging easily available for every researcher.
Read article: Nanojet transforms microscope into exact 3D-scope
Edward Hæggström
+358 29 415 0684
edward.haeggstrom@helsinki.fi
Enhancing daytime alertness interpreter for the internal clock
Means for understanding the internal clock and changing behaviour to improve sleep and enhance daytime alertness.
Mikael Gröning
+358 50 3589970
mikael.groning@helsinki.fi
Miniaturized drug characterization – faster development of new drugs
Rapid and accurate technology that measures solubility of substances from microscopic samples without any knowledge of the chemical structure of the samples. Enables knowledge-based decision-making at an earlier stage of drug development and speeds up the discovery process.
Read article: SPA is the missing link of drug discovery – a breakthrough in pharmaceutical analysis
Sami Svanbäck
+358 50 448 0863
sami.svanback@helsinki.fi
Lasersharp air monitoring – compact laser technology for real-time gas analysis
Precise and fast analysis of multiple gas compounds. Applicable, for example, for decreasing scrap and waste in the process industry, increasing occupational safety in factories and reducing risk of environmental hazards. Minimal costs in comparison to current solutions.
Arne Hook
+358 40 766 0122
arne.hook@helsinki.fi
Eco-friendly decontaminant solution – efficient and nontoxic decontamination
A novel solution to decontaminate chemical and biological warfare agents and other hazardous materials. Nontoxicity enables easier standby and performing of decontamination actions at civil and military targets.
Ilkka Pajari
+358 40 485 9736
ilkka.pajari@helsinki.fi
Human touch made visible – a novel and unique method for collecting data
A method for visualizing the way people touch and grasp objects through a residual heat signature from a handprint. Enables 3D modelling and data collection. Applicable, for example, for robotics and hospital infection control.
Grasp sense
Jukka Häkkinen
+358 50 4839483
jukka.hakkinen@helsinki.fi
Better cardiac health with genome data – an interactive tool for making individual health decisions
A next-generation web application enabling patients and doctors to use individual genome information to predict and prevent cardiovascular disease. It uniquely combines traditional medicine with multiple recently discovered genetic risk factors.
KardioKompassi
Elisabeth Widen
+358 50 3812738
elisabeth.widen@helsinki.fi
Kari Pitkänen
+358 500 702873
kari.pitkanen@fimmic.com
A mental maternity box – good parenting with good mental health
Provides scientific, evidence-based information on how to manage in parenthood. Teaching parents all required skills and tools on how to raise a child and maintain their own healthy state of mind.
Read article: Parental Box as a lifeline for families
Anna-Mari Sajaniemi
+358 50 3792281
amsajanie@gmail.com