Technical areas
VALUA cover areas such as life science, mechanics, medical technology, chemistry, software and biotechnology.
Representative technical areas include:
- Small molecules (NCEs), peptides
- Hormones, particularly fertility hormones
- Biomarkers; assays; diagnostic tests
- Imaging technology (equipment and chemical compounds)
- Methods for the treatment or diagnosis
- Apparatus for diagnostics
- Software
- Mechanical inventions, such as motors and combustion technology
- Process-technology
- Foodstuffs, as well as processes for the preparation of foodstuffs
- Shampoo; effervescent tablets, tablets for cleaning toilets
- Concrete, to methods for the production of concrete
- CleanTech
- Fertilizer
- Biomedical engineering, such as syringes and devices for surgical insertion
- The use of magnetic fields for the curative or diagnostic purposes
- Appliances, such as for tableting, spray technology and measurement of physiological data
- Other physically demanding and mechanical inventions, such as apparatus and methods to optimize temperature control
- Temperature Gauges
- Chemically modified, naturally occurring molecules
- Natural substances, herbal plants
- Methods for the preparation of compounds
- Purification methods, e.g., proteins and minicells
- Filtration-technology
- Crystalline phases
- Purities of substances
- Impurities
- Pharmaceutical formulations; platform technologies / sustained release
- Indications
- Measurement methods
- Identification of the diseases, for example by the measurement of ion concentrations
- Treatment areas fertility, urology and gastrointestinal diseases such as IBD and Crohn’s