Irish women awarded top EU innovator prizes

Dr Ciara Clancy and Niamh Donnelly ended up between the six winners at the EIC’s awards for women of all ages innovators.

Irish business people have after once more occur out on top rated at an EU ceremony celebrating progressive gals founders.

The winners of this year’s EU Prize for Females Innovators have been introduced by European commissioner Mariya Gabriel all through the two-day summit of the European Innovation Council.

Dr Ciara Clancy, founder and CEO of Beats Therapeutics, was a single of 3 winners of the key Gals Innovators award.

Beats Therapeutics is acquiring technological know-how to enable men and women with Parkinson’s ailment to evaluate and handle their mobility symptoms.

Clancy experienced as a physiotherapist but moved into medtech a ten years back when she started the corporation. She has been recognised for her innovations ahead of, staying named Cartier Women’s Initiative laureate in 2015 and Ireland’s Greatest Younger Entrepreneur in 2017.

Clancy was among eight finalists for the Women of all ages Innovators prize, which recognises entrepreneurs who have established a productive organization and introduced innovation to industry.

Two other business owners were awarded alongside her: Rocío Arroyo from Spanish biotech Amadix, which develops diagnostic resources for cancer and Dr Ninna Granucci from French foodstuff-tech enterprise Inexperienced Spot Systems, which converts meals processing by-products and solutions into a remarkably nutritious powder.

Also awarded at the ceremony was Irishwoman Niamh Donnelly, co-founder and main robotics officer at Dublin start-up Akara Robotics.

Donnelly was between 3 winners in the Mounting Innovators classification, which recognises business people beneath 35. This award was established to rejoice the European 12 months of Youth.

Trinity spin-out Akara has concentrated on building AI and robots for the health care sector, creating a mark with social care robot Stevie and disinfection robot Violet. Donnelly has a essential function to perform when it arrives to the tech and AI guiding these robots, which are remaining analyzed in Eire and further than.

There were 6 finalists for the Soaring Innovators prize and a few winners. Iva Gumnishka, founder and CEO of Bulgarian social company Individuals in the Loop, and Dr Mehak Mumtaz, co-founder and COO of Portuguese AI drug discovery paltform iLoF, were being also awarded the prize.

Clancy received a dollars prize of €100,000 with her award even though Donnelly received €50,000.

Last yr, a 3rd of the business owners nominated for the finals have been from Ireland. In the finish, Irish sisters Ailbhe and Izzy Keane – the founders of Izzy Wheels – took residence the title of mounting innovator and a prize of €50,000.

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