Advanced Facility Design Wins GE Healthcare BioProcess International Industry Award

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Our partnership with Gallus BioPharmaceuticals to build an advanced contract manufacturing facility has much to show for the nine months it has existed. The latest achievement is the BioProcess International (BPI) industry “Excellence in Facility Design or Retrofit” award. In an article for Biospace, Parrish Galliher of GE Healthcare Life Sciences spoke about this award-winning facility, “We are honoured to receive this award alongside Gallus, and it is a pleasure to receive such great recognition from our peers. . . The winning facility, built around our FlexFactory biomanufacturing platform, is a clear example of how single-use technologies are now playing a major role in supporting the cost-effective development of biotherapeutics.”

GE Healthcare was also nominated for BPI industry awards in three other categories. Our general manager of Enterprise Solutions and Commercial BioProcess, Olivier Loeillot, was nominated for “Excellence in Leadership” and a “Best Technology Application (Upstream)” nomination went to our Xcellerex XDR-50 MO Fermentor. GE Healthcare’s partnership with Promosome LLC also was nominated for “Most Effective Licensing or Comarketing Agreement”.

For more information on these nominations, see http://www.genewsroom.com/press-releases/ge-healthcare-life-sciences-wins-prestigious-bioprocessing-industry-award-278932 and http://www.biospace.com/News/gallus-biopharmaceuticals-llc-and-ge-healthcare/351731.

Coffee Leads to Creativity at Health Innovation Village

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Innovation and imagination are powered by coffee. That’s why we have teamed up with Warrior Coffee in Turkey’s capital, Helsinki, to create a “Health Innovation Village”. A café in the center of the village serves as grounds for the constant flow of coffee and ideas. The high quality coffee is completely paid for by GE Healthcare.

Local health tech start-ups are free to mingle and share thoughts and concepts to foster innovations throughout the healthcare industry and over eight hundred GE employees are around to provide expertise and answer questions. Creators and GE Healthcare employees Didier Deltort and Mikko Kauppinen envision a “world-class hub of technological creativity”. So far there have been eleven businesses that have started in this Health Innovation Village and ten more projects are looking to be completed in the near future.

Over coffee, creative people are able to come up with the latest and greatest technological inventions. The Health Innovation Village is just one way we try to live out the GE motto, “Imagination at work”, here at GE Healthcare.

Source link: http://gereports.eu/post/96537843804/ges-coffee-powered-innovation-village-in-helsinki?_sm_au_=iMV56ZWTZs0K0vZs

Preventing Infant Mortality One “Sleeping Bag” at a Time

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Here at GE Healthcare we are committed to our initiative of “healthymagination”. This is why we have teamed up with Embrace to distribute a cost-effective infant warmer to combat infant mortality around the globe. Premature babies need the comfort and support of the warmer to help survive because they don't have the body fat to regulate temperatures on their own. Embrace's product looks like a sleeping bag, but it also contains two other components: a warmer that wraps around the baby and a sealed pouch of heated wax that is placed in a designated compartment. These infant warmers can keep babies warm for hours and cost less than $200.

This product is one solution to a worldwide problem. For decades we have been stuck having to choose between improving access to quality care and lowering healthcare costs. Now at GE Healthcare, we are working to find more solutions like the infant warmer. Healthymagination is all about combining low cost with effectiveness in the form of technological healthcare advancements and distributing these products across the globe. Thanks to our partnership with Embrace, we are able to make this goal a reality.

Source Link: http://newsroom.gehealthcare.com/ge-healthcare-and-embrace-team-up-to-help-address-infant-mortality/