At its German location in Schönkirchen near Kiel, the Stryker Trauma GmbH is specialised in the development and production of intramedullary nails. As such, the Stryker Trauma GmbH is the world leader in intramedullary nailing with an annual production of 400,000 nails. Statistically, every 90 seconds a nail from Schönkirchen is implanted worldwide.

Role in BFCC:

Running the demonstration pilot “infections”.

Nils Reimers
Prof.-Küntscher-Str. 1-5,
24232 Schönkirchen, Germany
e-mail: nils.reimers@stryker.com
www.stryker.de/en

With locations in Kiel and Lübeck, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) is one of Europe’s largest medical centres and covers the entire spectrum of modern medicine and health care. The only maximum care provider in Schleswig-Holstein comprises more than 80 clinics and institutions with 2,000 physicians, scientists, researchers, and health staff of 4,000 people.

Role in BFCC:

Implementation and running of one local fracture registry that will supply the transnational registry with data, running the demonstration pilot “complications”, identifying clinical needs.

Arndt Peter Schulz
Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
e-mail: arndt-peter.schulz@uksh.de

The Institute for Community Medicine at the University Medicine Greifswald aims to improve the quality of life of the regional population and to secure high-standard health care. The Section Epidemiology of Health Care and Community Health (ICM-VC) focuses primarily on clinical and population-based projects in health care and epidemiology. The section has a wide experience in data management of epidemiological research. Projects like the German National Cohort demonstrate highest standards in managing high-quality research data and ensuring compliance to legal regulations of data protection. Additionally, within the DFG-Project MOSAIC (Grant number:  HO 1937/2-1) the ICM-VC provides practical templates and tools to address typical aspects of data managements (www.mosaic-greifswald.de).

Role in BFCC:

Implementation of the Transnational IT Infrastructure and Fracture Registries.

Wolfgang Hoffmann
Director of section Epidemiology of Health Care and Community Health
at the Institute for Community Medicine
Ellernholzstr. 1-2, 17487 Greifswald, Germany

Henriette Rau
Institute for Community Medicine
Ellernholzstr. 1-2, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
e-mail: henriette.rau@uni-greifswald.de
www.medizin.uni-greifswald.de

Sahlgrenska University Hospital provides emergency and basic care for the Göteborg region and its 700,000 inhabitants and highly specialised care for West Sweden with 1.7 million inhabitants.

Role in BFCC:

Running of one local fracture registry that will supply the transnational registry with data, running the demonstration pilot “diagnostics”, identifying clinical needs and carrying out qualification and training events.

Anders Jönsson
Göteborgsvägen 31, 43180 Mölndal, Sweden
Phone: +46 313 421 000
e-mail: anders.k.jonsson@vgregion.se
www.sahlgrenska.se/en

ScanBalt is the main platform for promoting innovation, competence development and efficient sharing of existing resources and infrastructures in Health and Life Science within the Baltic Sea Region.

Role in BFCC:

Establishment of a transnational network, professional organisation of the dialogue with stakeholders and the marketing of the BFCC R&I infrastructure and services to the BSR companies.

Peter Frank
ScanBalt c/o Peter Frank
Allegade 14, 4tv, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
e-mail: pf@scanbalt.org
www.scanbalt.org

The Lithuanian University of Health Sciences is the largest institution of higher education for biomedical sciences in Lithuania, successfully integrating studies, research and clinical practice. More than 1,200 highly qualified doctors and 2,400 members of the nursing staff take care of over 78,000 patients at the LSMU Hospital each year.

Role in BFCC:

Implementation and running of one local fracture registry that will supply the transnational registry with data, running the demonstration pilot “infections”, identifying clinical needs.

Šarūnas Tarasevičius
A. Mickeviciaus g. 9, 44307 Kaunas, Lithuania
e-mail: sarunas.tarasevicius@lsmuni.lt
www.lsmuni.lt/en

LifeScience Klaster Krakow is the network of institutions from Krakow and Małopolska Region to develop and deliver market innovations in the field of life sciences.
These organisations represent six areas of interests: biotechnology and life science business, research & development, science and education, healthcare, business support and local government actively guiding and facilitating the cooperation at the regional level.

Role in BFCC:

Establishment of a transnational network, professional organisation of the dialogue with stakeholders, the marketing of the BFCC R&I infrastructure and services to the BSR companies.

Kazimierz Murzyn
Bobrzyńskiego 14, 30-348 Kraków, Poland
e-mail: kmurzyn@lifescience.pl
www.lifescience.pl/en

University Hospital in Krakow, one of the biggest in Poland, offers highly specialized medical care for out-patients and in-patients in the framework of different specialties represented by various clinical departments, institutes and out-patient clinics.
At present the University Hospital has 31 departments with almost 1,600 hospital beds, 11 diagnostic institutes and 77 out-patient clinics. University Hospital in Krakow has 3900 highly qualified employees and yearly admits almost 78,000 patients from all over Poland. The number of medical consultations given in out-patient clinics exceeds 496,000 yearly. Hospital is not only providing therapy for patients but also training future medical personnel.

Role in BFCC:

Implementation and running of one local fracture registry that will supply the transnational registry with data, running the demonstration pilot “infections”, identifying clinical needs.

Krzysztof Mydel
UL. Kopernika 36, 31-501 Krakow, Poland
e-mail: kmydel@su.krakow.pl
www.en.su.krakow.pl

The University of Tartu is Estonia's leading centre of research and training. It belongs to the top three per cent of world's best universities. The large research potential of the University of Tartu is evidenced by the fact that it has been invited to join the Coimbra Group, a prestigious club of renowned research universities.

Role in BFCC:

Implementation and running of one local fracture that will supply the transnational registry with data, running the demonstration pilot “complications”, identifying clinical needs.

Rene Kärner
Ravila 19, 50412 Tartu, Estonia
e-mail: rene.karner@ut.ee
www.ut.ee/en

Tartu Biotechnology Park provides physical infrastructure as well as business development and consultancy services to companies and R&D institutions in the fields of biotechnology, medicine and veterinary medicine. From September 2005 Tartu Biotechnology Park runs the BioMed Incubator for biotechnology, medical and veterinary businesses. The incubator aims to support the formation and sustainable development of enterprises with grow potential.

Role in BFCC:

Establishment of a transnational network, professional organisation of the dialogue with stakeholders, the marketing of the BFCC R&I infrastructure and services to the BSR companies.

Bone Index is one of the most promising Life Science Company in Scandinavia 2014 (Nordic Star Award) and one of Europe's top new manufacturers of medical devices 2015 (Healthtech Summit). The mission is to reduce the number of osteoporotic fractures by one million globally per year and thus increase the quality of life of families. The aim is bring the diagnostics from special healthcare to primary healthcare with Bindex® point-of-care technology.

Role in BFCC:

Running the demonstration pilot “diagnostics”.