Updated on 7 October 2026
Life Sciences, HealthTech & AI Expert
Head of Life Sciences at SouthwestX Innovators
Saarbrücken, Germany
About
I am a senior Life Sciences and HealthTech expert with more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry, innovation management and venture building.
My focus is on the intersection of AI, medical technologies, digital health and entrepreneurship, supporting startups, researchers and industry partners in translating innovative technologies into viable and scalable healthcare solutions.
As Head of Life Sciences and Senior Venture Manager at southwestX, I work closely with DeepTech and AI startups and contribute to building an AI Regulatory Sandbox with a particular focus on medical AI systems and real-world testing environments.
My expertise includes:
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Life Sciences, MedTech and Digital Health
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AI applications and AI regulation in healthcare
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EU AI Act, MDR/IVDR and healthcare innovation pathways
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Startup creation, venture building and business models
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Market access and commercialization
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Investor readiness and fundraising
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Clinical and industry partnerships
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Cross-border ecosystem development
I am particularly interested in connecting with AI innovators, startups, investors, healthcare providers, corporates and research organizations seeking expertise, partnerships or market access in the European healthcare ecosystem.
With an active network across Germany, France and Luxembourg, I am also interested in developing cross-border collaborations and European innovation projects.
Field
- Industrial AI
- Trusted AI
- Data Governance and Compliance
- Change Management
- Other expertise
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Organisation
Similar opportunities
Project cooperation
AI Cross-Border Living Lab for Health Innovation
- Trusted AI
- Industrial AI
- Generative AI
- R&D cooperation
- AI & Generative AI
- Edge AI / Embedded AI
- Robotics and automation
- Skills - Change Management
- Data Governance and Compliance
- Design - setting the project scope
- Industrial Data / Data Utilization
- Technical /Technological cooperation
- Quality control using computer vision
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
- Drafting - writing the project proposal
- Industrial Cloud and Data Infrastructure
- Document Automation and Knowledge Management
- Partners seeks consortium (EU & Collaborative projects only)
- Consortium seeks Partners (EU & Collaborative projects only)
Elke Lieb
Head of Life Sciences at SouthwestX Innovators
Saarbrücken, Germany
Project cooperation
Joint AI offers with independent partners
- R&D cooperation
- AI & Generative AI
- Skills - AI Training
- Skills - Change Management
- Design - setting the project scope
- Business Assistants / AI Co-pilots
- Technical /Technological cooperation
- Ideation - identifying the project idea
- Document Automation and Knowledge Management
Julien Jakubowicz
Founder - AI expert at iAlsace
Strasbourg, France
Expertise
Strategic Partnerships: Trusted AI and Data-Driven GovTech for Public Sector Modernization
- Trusted AI
- AI Training
- Generative AI
- Change Management
- AI & Generative AI
- Data Governance and Compliance
Volodymyr Matiushko
Ambassador Industry4Ukraine at Ambassadors of Industry4Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine