B.ACIS Center for Health Innovation

 

B.ACIS is the Center for Health Innovation of the School of Medicine of the University of Minho. We are a community of students, researchers, technicians, entrepreneurs and health professionals that generate scientific, technological and economical value to society.

 

B.ACIS’s core mission is to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in Medical and Life Sciences, facilitating the transfer of knowledge, technologies and innovative solutions stemming from the Medical Cluster. Our mission is to promote the highest societal and economical impact from outstanding research results and highly qualified researchers and professionals from the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute – ICVS, the Digital Medical Center – P5, and the Clinical Academic Center – 2CA-Braga.

 

B.ACIS develops its activities within three main business units:

 

- Research & Development Services: in coordination with the ICVS, we provide specialised R&D services to support the needs of the community through dedicated laboratories and facilities;

- Innovation: we assess, protect and commercialise Intellectual Property, by cultivating entrepreneurship, supporting the creation of technology start-ups and establishing academic-industry partnerships.

- Advanced Scientific Training: we are designed to skill health professionals on up to date techniques through hands-on courses, lectures, workshops, conferences and summits in medicine and biomedicine.

 

Our vision is to be, in five years, a world class player in knowledge transfer and scientific education in the field of biomedical and clinical research.