About CeNTech

The Center for Nanotechnology (CeNTech) provides the infrastructure for direct and interdisciplinary collaborations involving faculties of the University of Münster (chemistry, physics, biology and medicine). Research at CeNTech keeps a strong relation to technological applications and shall result in patents for new nanotechnology based inventions which can be developed up to the product level.

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December 14, 2022 - News & Press

Software as medical product, MDR/ IVDR Workshop at CeNTech

Software as well as medical apps are affected by the new EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR). As these requirements are rather complicated, the project MDR-support@NRW (https://mdr-support.nrw) addressed these topics in a workshop on December 13 at CeNTech. Michael Engler from Benkana Interfaces GmbH & Co. KG gave an overview about SOFTWARE AS MEDICAL PRODUCT and furthermore in-depth information about classification, software requirements, quality and risk management related to software.

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November 2022 - News & Press

CeNTech CSO informs NRW Minister about MDR-Support@NRW project

The NRW Minister of Economics Mona Neubaur visited the MDR Support@NRW booth at the MEDICA in Düsseldorf. CeNTech CSO Holger Winter talked with the minister about the challenges of the Medical Device Regulation certification, that companies currently face as well as about the project activities. Besides the CeNTech GmbH Bioanalytik Münster e.V and Gesundheitswirtschaft Münsterland e.V. are also partners in the project.

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October 19, 2022 - News & Press

CeNTech Science Breakfast 2022

Again the annual CeNTech Science Breakfast took place , welcoming a very diverse audience from the science location Münster. The alliance between research and development on one side and the strategic urban development on the other side is working, explained CeNTech CEO Enno Fuchs. CeNTech R+D director Harald Fuchs emphasized the importance of the science park as a center of high-tech research and development. The program included lectures about the future urban development on the outskirts of the science park, the presentation of the Münster battery cluster and smart solutions in the healthcare sector. Further presentations were dedicated to the Quantum Technology Network Münster and the Cryo-electron microscopy.

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