For the second time we will be able to present the Bernstein-CorTec Award this year. The cooperation between CorTec and the Bernstein-Center Freiburg makes it possible to award a prize money of 1000 € for master and doctoral theses in the interdisciplinary field of Neurotechnology and Computational Neuroscience. The award is given in recognition of […]
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Research and development are the focus of our work. With a highly skilled team we are working closely together with our partners to promote and deploy the technology developed by us in funded projects. Today we would like to introduce the Moore4Medical* project to you. It is the overarching objective of Moore4Medical to accelerate innovation
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CorTec is offering a wide spectrum of services accompanying you all the way through the development of innovative technologies leading to an approved medical device in the end. One step on that way is to design application specific mouldings to protect the sensitive parts of the implant, such as its electronics with our encapsulation technology.
Fast Design Iterations for Precise Silicone Moulds for Active Implants Read More »
Our pictures of the year don’t come from just anyone. Each one is the work of one of our employees who have documented a variety of events in our daily work throughout the year. As 2020 faced us all with unexpected and new challenges, our photo gallery not only includes our technology and products but
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Our connector technology portfolio has been supplemented by a further development. The new In-Line Connector is based on well-known and proven technologies that are already in use today. The fully implantable 8 channel connector (female) allows interconnection to common DBS leads (i.e. Boston Scientific). The connector’s contacts by Bal Seal Engineering® are made of MP35N
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The Senate of Economy is composed of personalities from the fields of economy, science and society who are particularly aware of their responsibility towards state and society. Together, they contribute to the practical implementation of the common good-oriented goals of sustainability in the sense of the eco-social market economy. At CorTec, we are very pleased
CEO and founder of CorTec, Dr. Jörn Rickert is a member of the Senate of Economy Read More »
The winners of the BCI Award 2020 were recently announced at the IEEE SMC conference during the Award ceremony. The BCI Award is organized every year by the BCI Award foundation, led by Christoph Guger and Dean Krusienski. The head of the jury Aysegul Gunduz selected the winners with the help of the other jury
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The extent to which our everyday life relies on dexterous usage of our hands is something that we usually only realize when things go wrong, e.g., when we break a bone and our hand is fixed in a plaster cast. Tetraplegic patients permanently suffer from these restrictions throughout their lives. Restoring hand movements, especially functional
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We all intuitively know that our mental states can affect our physical wellbeing. Especially when it comes to fighting off infections, it is common knowledge that too much stress affects our resilience against germs. And yet, the concrete details of how our brain activity influences the immune system have remained largely unclear. A new, massively
Brain to spleen: Attack intruders! Read More »
At CorTec we frequently undertake the most diverse activities as a team that weld us together a little bit more. Our team is not only concerned with their own pleasure. Especially in the tense situation of the present time, we as a team also want to make a contribution. Recently, some of our colleagues therefore
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