Industrial Engineer with a Master of Science (MSc) in Industrial Engineering from UPC (2007) and a post-graduate degree in Finance Management from EADA (2012). Competence in technology transfer, finance and business development. Extensive experience as a technology transfer manager, successfully driving the exploitation of IPRs, licensing of technologies and encouraging the creation of spin-offs. A strong background in company valuations, shareholder agreements and financing rounds obtained through previous roles in consulting firms and the corporate development department of an electricity producing company. Focused on promoting the cutting-edge technologies of the i2CAT Foundation in the market.
Doctor in Medicine from the University of Barcelona and Diplomate of Spanish Board of Gastroenterology. Researcher of IDIBAPS and CIBEREHD. Professor of University of Barcelona since 2015. She was trained at the Experimental Endoscopy Unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, under the direction of Dr. Christopher C. Thompson and at the Endoscopy Unit of Kobe University Hospital, under the supervision of Dr. Toyonaga. With more than 30 years of experience in clinical practice and 20 years as endoscopist in Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, the last 10 years she has focused her activity in therapeutic endoscopy and innovation. Her team has developed an accessory device that can detect and characterize colorectal polyps by using microwaves and is currently evaluating its performance in a real clinical setting. She is also focused on developing intelligent systems to improve diagnostic capabilities of endoscopes and to assess quality performance measures.
Marta Guardiola received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunications and the Ph.D. from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. In 2012 she was at the University of Bristol for a research stay. In 2019, she co-founded MiWEndo Solutions, a spinoff devoted to the development of a microwave medical diagnostic systems. In MiWEndo Solutions she serves as President and CTO. She has co-authored tens of journal and conference papers, has directed 8 PhD and Master thesis, has participated in tens of research projects (5 as PI) including the EIC Accelerator, holds 2 patents, and has received more than 10 awards including Dona TIC Award, Premio Real Academia de Ingeniería, Salvà i Campillo Award, Duran i Farell Award, the recognition of the Scientific Journal Nature in its Spinoff Prize. She received training in entrepreneurship from the University of California Berkeley. She is an Associate Professor in Universitat Internacional de Catalunya and Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Engineer and Master in Telecommunications from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. In 2017, as a final degree project, he already started his professional experience in the radiofrequency sector working for the company Zanini Autogroup developing a measurement system to characterize radomes incorporated in cars. Since 2019 he is working at MiWEndo Solutions. He started by realizing a first design of an antenna to detect colon polyps as a final master project. Since 2022 he is pursuing his industrial PhD at MiWEndo Solutions own company, researching on medical applications to detect tissue inflammation using microwaves.
Engineer in Industrial Electronics and Automation from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He has been working in the electronics field since 2017, when he started working for a PCB assembly company for 4 years while completing his degree. When this stage was over, he started working in the automotive industry as a hardware validation engineer, first at DENSO for six months and then at LEAR for over a year. Following his interests in electronics, he moved to Barcelona to start the Master in Electronic Engineering and started working at MiWEndo Solutions where he is dedicated to electronic design as an Electronic Engineer.
Industrial Engineering Master from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in addition to an exchange program for Master Thesis at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He has carried out his career within international R&D departments across Biotechnology, Automotive, Power Electronics, Packaging and Aerospace; having a strong expertise in mechatronic systems and product development. After seven years living and working in Zürich he came back to Barcelona, joining MiWEndo team in November 2021 and playing a key role ensuring product design and industrialisation. He is a strong believer of the benefits that innovation and technology can bring to society.
Graduated in biomedical engineering from Pompeu Fabra University. She furthered her education with a master’s degree in creation and management of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies at CESIF. Núria’s dedication to scientific innovation and project management has been evident throughout her career. She played a crucial role in the development, growth, and international expansion of a cosmetic brand. Her expertise and commitment to implementing innovative health solutions led her to join the MiWEndo team as Project and Delivery Manager. In this role, she contributes to the advancement of pioneering technologies in the healthcare sector.
Engineer and Master in Telecommunications from the UPC. She has been working on microwave systems and antenna design since 2018 working part time as a research assistant at Comsenslab (UPC). In 2018 she completed a stay at Aalto University (Finland) designing integrated antennas for green buildings. She has co-authored 4 scientific articles. She has experience working in machine learning and computer vision in i2cat and Serimag.
Electrical Engineer from Universidad Catolica de Chile and Ph.D. in EE Signals and Systems from the University of Wisconsin-Madison USA. She specializes in physical and mathematical modeling, medical imaging, numerical non-linear optimization, inverse problems, statistical methods, and algorithm development. Since 2013 she has worked in microwave imaging for diagnostic and therapeutic biomedical applications. She has authored eight peer-reviewed research publications and received a first prize award in the USNC-URSI Student Paper Competition at the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Before joining Miwendo, she was a Research Fellow at Mayo Clinic, investigating the interaction of microwaves with different gastrointestinal tissue types and developing algorithms for MRI-Electrical Properties Tomography.
Biomedical Engineer from the UPV, with a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Aarhus and a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, he has distinguished himself in the field of radiofrequency and artificial intelligence (AI). His time as a researcher at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Italy, during his doctoral studies, allowed him to delve into the application of AI for microwave image acquisition in the medical field. His participation in a European research project has allowed him to work in international and multidisciplinary environments, enriching his technical profile with a collaborative and transversal experience of great value.
Biomedical Engineer graduated from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. During her internship at BonÀrea Agrupa, she delved into the field of artificial intelligence, where she trained and refined machine learning models. Her expertise in medical device development was further enhanced through her participation in the i4KIDS program at Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Barcelona, where she contributed to the design and creation of innovative solutions to improve the quality of life for pediatric patients. Currently, she is part of MiWEndo Solutions as a Project Manager, overseeing all project management tasks and handling the management of various grants and funding applications. In parallel, she has started an EMBA in Health at CESIF, with the aim of enhancing her management and leadership skills.
Biomedical graduate from the Universidad Internacional de Cataluña, he has a comprehensive training in the development and application of technologies for the health sector. During his university studies, he did an internship at MiWendo Solutions, where he had the opportunity to participate in the management of the development of innovative medical devices. Currently, she continues her collaboration with MiWendo Solutions as part of the project management team. In this role, he contributes to the advancement and coordination of projects, while continuing to acquire valuable practical skills and knowledge of the work environment. In parallel, he has started a Master’s degree in Biomedical Business Management at the International University of Catalonia, with the aim of complementing his technical training with management and leadership skills.
Electronics Engineer from Universidad ORT Uruguay, currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at UB and UPC. He studied part of his degree at University of Kent from 2017 to 2018, focusing his study in telecommunications and medical sciences. He has worked on low-level programming and embedded systems projects since 2019, including a portable system for acquisition, processing and transmission of brain signals, as well as development of interfaces and algorithms in electronic payment terminals, and calibration and optimization of medical instruments for obtaining biomarkers. He has experience working with relational databases, micro-scale biosensors, and biometric and genomic data analysis.
Administrative Technician and Diploma in Tourism from the University of Girona. She has currently completed a course in Business Administration and Management at masterd, which reflects her constant search for excellence and professional growth. She has accumulated extensive work experience in various sectors, which has given her an exceptional perspective and ability to address multidisciplinary challenges. She is therefore highly motivated to embark on a new project in the healthcare area.
Having recently completed her biomedical engineering degree at the University of Barcelona, she finds great enthusiasm in the dynamic nexus of science and technology within the realm of biomedical innovation. In the company, she is engaged in the Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance (RAQA) department, seeking opportunities for continued learning and professional growth.
Medical Director of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona and coordinator of the Barcelona’s Colorectal Cancer Screening Program, and former Director of the Institute of Digestive and Metabolic Diseases of the HCB (2010-2015). Full professor of Gastroenterology, at the University of Barcelona, School of Medicine. As Director of the “Gastrointestinal and Pancreatic Research Group” of the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd, Instituto de Salud Carlos III) and the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), his research program is focused on CRC genetics and screening strategies. He is founding member of the Spanish “Alliance for Colon Cancer Prevention”, being its first National Coordinator (2006-2010), and member of the Advisory Board of the International Digestive Cancer Alliance, World Gastroenterology Organization Task Force on Digestive Oncology, Spanish Health Ministry, Pla Director d’Oncologia of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and Madrid City Hall for colorectal cancer prevention. He has been awarded with the Biomedical Research Excellence Prize of the Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona (2007), and the August Pi i Sunyer Prize (2010), among others.
M.D. and Ph.D. in Medicine and Master in hospital management, he is the Head of the Digestive Endoscopy Section in Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. He has more than 30 years of experience and extensive training in different fields of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Digestive Endoscopy. As a result of his research activity, he made important contributions to the clinical development, assistance and technological development of the National Health System, in topics such as endoscopic capsule, thermocoagulation, chromoendoscopy, among others. He is professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Barcelona, School of Medicine.
Head of the gastrointestinal pathology section and consultor at Hospital Clinic, Barcelona. Spain. Research fellow at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY. USA. Focus in translational research by linking pathology diagnosis and basic research to clinical applications. Leader in colorectal lymph node molecular staging. Associated professor at the University of Barcelona Medical School and professor in four masters. Coordinator of the Tumor Bank of the Biobank Clinic-IDIBAPS and of the Banking Network of Tumors of Catalonia (XBTC), Treasurer and Board Member of the Spanish Pathology Society (SEAP-IAP), Board Member and Secretary of the Catalan Society of Pancreas of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia. Reviewer of national research program projects and of national and international scientific journals.
Dr. Maria Pellisé is a gastroenterologist at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Always involved in collaborative research projects with other Spanish and European centers, she has specialized in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, diagnosis and surveillance. In addition to dedicating herself to diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, she is the clinical coordinator of the Population Screening Program at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. She has participated in different action guides and symposia and directed several specialized courses and seminars.
MSc in Bio-Medical Engineering from the Tel Aviv University and BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion (both cum-laude). Senior Marketing, Sales and BizDev Manager with extensive experience in introducing innovative medical & electronic products into new and existing markets, world-wide. Skilled in end-to-end product / portfolio management, developing and implementing marketing strategies and global commercialization processes. Consistently succeed in promoting new products into value propositions in small & large companies. Extensive experience in: Gastro Intestinal Imaging, Radiology, Medical IT, Aesthetics and Surgical Lasers, Security and Desalination. Multilingual (Spanish, Hebrew, English, Italian) with extensive international and cross cultural experience.
MSc in Market Research and Strategic Marketing from the Institut d’Études Politiques Paris and BSc in Business Administration, Georgetown University. Marketing Director for a group of Spanish companies specialized on Innovation Management and Technology Commercialization: KIM (Barcelona), MRI International (Madrid) and Knowledge Investors (Vigo). Worked in strategy, management and technology consulting for a few years, now I help research institutions, businesses, investors and government agencies improve the return on their investments on innovation.
CREA Research Professor at Simbiosys-DTIC (UPF) since October 2013. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (1996), and a doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK (2000). He was a senior researcher at Toshiba Medical Systems (Japan), INRIA (France), and at University of Bern (Switzerland), where he was leading the Surgical Technology Division at the Faculty of Medicine. From 2008 until 2013 he was in charge of the Research Department of the company Alma IT Systems SL in Barcelona. His research focuses on computerized medical image analysis and computer-assisted surgery, including image processing and computer vision, image-based diagnosis, medical imaging physics, computational modelling and simulation of virtual organs and surgical interventions, navigation in computer-assisted surgery, surgical devices and implants, surgical robotics and translational research focusing on certain clinical and industrial applications.
Associate Professor in Physense-DTIC (UPF). He obtained a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from UPC (1999), and a Masters and Ph.D. in Image Processing in the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris (2000 and 2003, respectively). From 2004 to 2007, he did a postdoctoral stay, first at King’s College London and then at University College London. In July 2007, he joined UPF as “Ramón y Cajal” Fellow, where he is coordinating a research group called PhySense, that he founded in 2011. He is also coordinator of the Biomedical Engineering degree at the UPF. His research is focused on methodologies at the crossroad of computational imaging and computational modelling areas that can be effectively used in a clinical environment, including oncology, neurology and cardiology applications, among others. He is actively involved in competitive national and European research projects including strong collaborations with industrial and clinical partners.
He became Engineer and later PhD in Telecommunications from UPC in 1986 and 1991, respectively. He has been with the Signal Theory and Communications Department, UPC, since 1985, where he is currently a Full Professor, working on the research of antenna near-field measurements, antenna diagnostics, and antenna design. He was a Visiting Scholar with the Antenna Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 1999, under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Scientific Program Scholarship and in 2004, with the University of California, Irvine, CA. He has experience as advisor in several spinoffs.
He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering (telecommunication engineering) from the UPC in 1978 and 1982, respectively. From 1979 to 1980, he was a Research Assistant with the Electrophysics Group, UPC, where he was involved in the analysis and near-field measurement of antennas and scatterers. From 1981 to 1982, he was with the Ecole Suprieure d’Electricite Paris, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, where he was involved in microwave antenna design and imaging techniques for medical and industrial applications. Since 1982, he has been with the Communications Department, Telecommunication Engineering School, UPC, as an Associate Professor and then has been a full Professor since 1989. From 1986 to 1987, he was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, where he was involved in antenna near-field measurements and electromagnetic imaging. From 1989 to 1994, he was the Director of the Telecommunication Engineering School, UPC, and from 1994 to 2000, he was the UPC Vice-Rector for academic planning. From 2000 to 2001, he was a Visiting Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, where he was involved in reconfigurable antennas and microwave sensing of civil engineering structures. He was the Director of the Catalan Research Foundation from 2002 to 2004 and the Director of the UPC-Telefonica Chair on Information Society Future Trends since 2003. He was a Principal Investigator of the 2008–2013 Spanish Sensing Lab Consolider Project, the General Director and then Secretary for Catalan Universities and Research from 2011 to 2016, and a Research Leader of the 2017–2020 ComSense Lab Maria de Maeztu Project. He has authored more than 200 scientific and technical papers, reports, and chapters in specialized volumes. His current research interests include antennas, electromagnetic scattering and imaging, system miniaturization for wireless, and sensing industrial and bio-applications from microwaves to terahertz frequencies.
He received the Telecommunication Engineering degree from the UPC and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is currently a Full Professor with UPC. He was an intern with the Systems Research Center, Honeywell, Bloomington, MN, where he was involved with noise measurement methods for field-effect transistors (FETs) at Ka-band. His research interests include microwave devices and materials, microwave photonics and microwave biomedical applications. Homepage
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MiWEndo Solutions is a spinoff of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats.
