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More than 510,000 colonoscopies for the early detection of colorectal cancer were performed in Germany in 2019. Compared to 2018, this was an increase of more than 14 percent. Screening colonoscopy plays an important role in the early detection of colorectal cancer. Today, the procedure itself is relatively uncomplicated and painless, thanks to state-of-the-art endoscopy […]

SHS is happy to give students practical experience as part of a three-month or longer internship and provide you with an insight into the areas of private equity, funds and growth companies. Since the end of September, we have welcomed Felix Frick as an intern with us. Felix is currently in the third semester of […]

Anna has been part of the SHS team since September 2022. She completed her Bachelor of Science at the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University. In addition, she did a Double Degree Master at EDHEC Business School / Maastricht University in Corporate Finance and Banking. She then joined William Blair International as an […]

This October, SHS held its first SHS Portfolio Days. This new format was created to give SHS portfolio companies the opportunity to present themselves in an online format to potential strategic partners and other interested audiences. This year’s Portfolio Days consisted of two blocks of two dates each. The first block was made up of […]

Dr Cornelius Maas is responsible for the so-called deal flow at SHS. One of his main tasks is to find suitable companies in which SHS would like to invest. Fundraising for the SHS VI fund is running very successfully and is almost complete. Time for a few questions for Dr Maas: Dr Maas, what criteria […]

The Swiss company TRI® Dental Implants now offers dental practices a super-fast workflow for restoring implant patients in just 60 minutes. This is made possible by the unique matrix® implant line, which requires no abutments and no cement. A real step forward for patients and dentists. More information: https://t1p.de/yqjgz

Gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) live on sub-Antarctic islands and can dive more than 180 metres deep, their maximum speed in the water is around 35 km/h. Since penguins do not have gills, but are birds with lungs, researchers from the Fundación Oceanogràfic want to find out how exactly the lungs of gentoo penguins work. To […]

On the occasion of a meeting of the renowned French Académie Nationale de Chirurgie at the Institut Faire Faces, the First Lady of France, Brigitte Macron, was able to personally convince herself of the performance of the CARLO® surgical robot. The Institut Faire Faces was founded in 2009 in Amiens, the birthplace of Brigitte Macron, […]

Here we introduce you to the SHS senior advisors. The experience of these experts plays an important role for us in the investment process and benefits not least our portfolio companies. Dr Enzelberger is currently a partner at Versant Ventures in Basel, where he builds new companies in drug discovery and biotechnology. Prior to that, […]

In our series “SHS portfolio companies”, today we talk to Tobias Richter, founder and CEO of the Swiss TRI Dental Implants Int. AG, in which SHS has held a stake since 2014. In 2011, Tobias Richter founded the company TRI Dental Implants in Switzerland. The graduate economist comes from a family of doctors in East […]

The most important goals in the invasive treatment of myocardial infarction are to reduce infarct size, improve cardiac function and minimise the likelihood of permanent heart failure. To achieve these goals, Belgium-based Miracor Medical has developed the PiCSO® (Pressore Controlled Intermittent Coronary Sinus Occlusion) system. With the start of the new PICSO-AMI-V study at the […]

Tübingen, 3 November 1906: Alzheimer’s disease described for the first time 3 November 1906 is an important date in the history of Alzheimer’s disease. For on this Saturday, the physician Dr. Alois Alzheimer (14.6.1864 – 19.12.1915) described a type of dementia disease for the first time at a specialist conference at the Tübingen Nervenklinik. Alzheimer, […]