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  • Ideate Ireland 2026 Start-Up Competition Overall Winner

    2026

    NOVAP wins first-place prize at the Ideate Ireland 2026 competition.

  • NOVAP wins HIHI Clinical Innovation Awards

    2026

    NOVAP has been selected as a winner of the Health Innovation Hub Ireland (HIHI) Clinical Innovation Awards, a national programme supporting healthcare professionals to develop and advance clinically driven innovations with strong commercial potential.

    Delivered in partnership with the Department of Health and Enterprise Ireland, the programme recognises high-potential healthcare innovations and supports their journey towards commercialisation.

    As a winner, NOVAP received an Enterprise Ireland €15,000 Commercial Feasibility Fund award and a place on the prestigious NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme.

  • The Hidden Threat in ICU: VAP and Biofilm

    2025

    Read our article published in the Autumn (2025) edition of SPECTRUM The Official Journal of the Biomedical and Clinical Engineering Association of Ireland on the progress of NOVAPsEnterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund

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  • Ones to Watch Award

    2024

    NOVAPs team selected for Trinity College Dublin ‘Ones to Watch’ Award at The 2024 Trinity Innovation Awards

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  • Irish Examiner

    2023

    Irish medical team develops device for Ventilator-associated Pneumonia - Read our article in the Irish Times about how our story began and the clinical need for NOVAP.

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