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Luminate Medical is developing technology designed not only to reduce the side effects of cancer treatment, but to change where and how that treatment is delivered.

A consortium led by University of Galway medtech startup Spiorad Medical has secured a €1.7million euro investment through the Government’s Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF).

A consortium led by University of Galway spin-out Fortis Medical Devices has secured a €2.1 million government grant to accelerate the development of breakthrough stroke rehabilitation technology.

125 jobs are to be created over the next three years at Oranmore-based Neurent Medical, a rapidly growing innovator in ear, nose, and throat (ENT) healthcare solutions.

Galway medical device company Ceroflo has closed out an investment round which has raised €6.4m to advance its disruptive technology to revolutionise the treatment of intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD), a leading cause of stroke.

MBRYONICS Ltd, a Galway-based company which specialises in developing advanced optics for the space industry, has just secured €4.1 million in funding through the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF). The company is planning a significant expansion and aims to create a ‘Silicon Valley’ for earth-orbit communications technology in the west.

Galway-based MedTech company Versono Medical has opened its newly-expanded laboratories and offices over two floors at its current facility in Parkmore Business Park. The company, founded in 2018 by CEO Finbar Dolan and CTO Hugh O’Donoghue, has grown from just two people to 22 since it opened.

Galway is emerging as Ireland’s “innovation capital”, according to a government minister, after more than half of the €40 million allocated to disruptive technology projects nationwide this week was awarded to consortia based in the county.

825 new full-time jobs were created in Gaeltacht companies in 2021, the highest number of jobs created in one year since 2008. When job reductions are taken into account, there is a net increase of 446 in overall employment – the largest annual net increase since 1996.

A €2.9 million project aimed at tackling plastic packaging pollution has been launched by Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUS).