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22/08/2022

Medical Valley: Establishing a China landing hub with Convergence Partners and Siemens Healthineers

On 3 August 2022, an official signing ceremony at the Siemens Healthineers Innovation Center at Zhangjiang Park in Shanghai and at the Medical Valley Center in Erlangen launched a comprehensive EU-China cross-border acceleration programme for European healthcare innovators. Medical Valley Solutions, Convergence Partners and Siemens Healthineers will collaborate with Zhangjiang Group in Shanghai. Medical Valley Solutions is the commercial platform of Medical Valley EMN e. V., a German cluster of excellence in the field of medical technology.

Official signing ceremony
Official signing ceremony
© Medical Valley EMN & Siemens Healthineers
Medical Valley: Establishing a China landing hub with Convergence Partners and Siemens Healthineers

Through this strategic cooperation, the partners aim at offering a wide range of landing and scale-up services including access to the state-of-the-art labs and resources at the Siemens Healthineers Innovation Center in Shanghai.

The partners intend to establish a cross-border cooperation platform to enable a fruitful exchange between European and Chinese MedTech start-ups, identify game-changing HealthTech start-ups and establish a highly efficient network to realize cutting-edge know-how transfer and therefore innovations that will shape the future of healthcare.


Participants of the signing ceremony (left to right)

  • Juergen Simon, Head of Siemens Healthineers Technology Accelerator at Siemens Healthineers
  • Walter Märzendorfer, Chairman at Medical Valley EMN e. V.
  • Dr. Martin Reimer, General Manager at Medical Valley Solutions
  • Jörg Trinkwalter, Managing Director at Medical Valley Solutions
  • Peter Schardt, CTO at Siemens Healthineers
  • André Hartung, President of Diagnostic Imaging at Siemens Healthineers
  • Torsten Niederdraenk, Head of Technology & Innovation Management at Siemens Healthineers


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