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GE Healthcare’s office in Szeged has won 123 million HUF subsidy through the New Hungary Development Plan with the help of EU funding, being co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. The project aims to develop new medical software applications that help to cure more effectively tumour disorders affecting broad layer of people. Besides the subsidy, GEHC provides a further 98 million HUF as own resource.

Two closely inter-linked software prototypes will be created as the outcome of this three-year project:
• The software supporting clinical research makes it possible to diagnose tumour disorders more accurately

  and plan and monitor treatment more effectively, hence improving the chances of recovering from

  tumour disorders.
• The other prototype is a software specifically developed for the liver that can be used for planning

  surgery, which, complemented by virtual surgery lesion, will represent progress in imaging the vascular

  system and tumours more effectively.

There are more and more tumour disorders in developed societies due to ageing population. According to statistics, liver tumour is the third leading cause of cancer death. In case of other tumours (like pulmonary, large intestine, breast) metastasis occurs in liver unusually often, causing death in many cases sooner than the main tumour.

The greatest novelty of the project is the use of the surplus information of the Dual Energy CT (DECT) tool based on an earlier development by GEHC in practise. The essence of the method applied by DECT is to use screening of two different energies when CT image is made. Since the X-ray absorbing coefficient of materials differs at the two energy levels, more accurate soft tissue discrimination can be reached compared to traditional CT imaging. This makes easier to detect small structures (like capillary vessels and tumours), which has a key role in defining the size of the tumour and the tumour feeding blood vessels.

GEHC involves the Radiology and Oncology Clinics and the Departments of Optics and Quantum electronics at University of Szeged into the research and development. The University of Szeged and GEHC have successfully collaborated in research and development projects since 2001, thus the university participated earlier in research that helped to improve the quality of X-ray images, or for example to discriminate the organs more accurately in medical images. These projects served as basis for three departments of the University of Szeged to join in the present tender effectively and assist in adjusting the tools produced and developed by GEHC to clinical needs.

DAOP-2009-1.1.1/D

The National Development Agency has announced calls for tender for Regional Operational Programme’s Location of Industry such as DAOP- 2009 - 1.1.1./D, (and DDOP- 2009 - 1.1.1./E, ÉAOP- 2009 - 1.1.1./E, ÉMOP- 2009 - 1.1.1./B, KDOP- 2009 - 1.1.1./D, KMOP- 2009 - 1.5.3./B, NYDOP- 2009 - 1.3.1./E).

Source: www.nfu.hu 

Call for tender GOP 1.3.1B for accredited cluster members has been published!!!

Tender GOP1.3.1B is the “smaller sister” of tender GOP 1.2.1. The subsidy of minimum 15 million HUF to maximum 250 million HUF can be won.

Further information about the tender at www.nfu.hu

Call for tender GOP 1.2.1 for Accredited Innovation Clusters was published on 19 December 2008. According to the Guide for Proposals subsidy intensity may reach 50 percent. The subsidy of minimum 250 million HUF to maximum 1500 million HUF can be won.

Source: www.nfu.hu