49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva (IEIG)

The Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre (ABIC) achieved outstanding and encouraging results at the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva (IEIG) held from 17 to 21 April 2024, winning a total of 9 awards, including 2 Gold Medal and 7 Silver Medals. This is the second consecutive year that ABIC has participated in this prestigious international event.

ABIC's accolades have more than doubled since its participation last year, surpassing expectations! These accomplishments of ABIC’s research groups in Geneva symbolized a substantial growth in global recognition of its pioneering innovations.

Prof. Anderson Shum, Centre Director of ABIC, congratulated the winners on their extraordinary achievements. “ABIC will strive and continue to make significant contributions to society through the commercialization of our innovative solutions, serving the global community with our partners and stakeholders around the world,” he said, “and also appreciate our dedicated, passionate and innovative researchers.”

The ABIC award-winning projects are:

Gold Medals

• SpImage: Large-scale Spinning Imaging for Intelligent Rapid Cell Screening
• Scalable wafer-scale ultra-flat ultra-flexible diamond membrane
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• Silver Medals

• A thermal activation-based particle engineering technology for discovery of new drug cocrystals as inhaled therapy
• Fibro-gel: Novel personalized wound dressing
• Flowformer
• Inhale the Future: Embracing the Next Generation of Inhalable Nanomedicine Technologies
• Making Insoluble Drugs Soluble
• Saliva Mental: Dog Wellness Assessment Ball
• Ultrasensitive Rapid Antigen Tests