Interdisciplinary Know-How
Bio/mechanical/electronic/software engineering
Chemistry, physics
Human factors
Regulatory affairs and quality management
Integrative Approach
By combining clinical insight, technological expertise, and market perspectives, ACMIT creates an environment where innovation can thrive. Together with its scientific and industrial partners, ACMIT translates promising ideas into advanced medical solutions and products.
Certified Partner
ACMIT is an EN ISO 13485-certified partner of the medical technology industry. Our R&D services are complemented by the production of prototypes and contract manufacturing of medical devices.
ACMIT Company History
Integrated Microsystems Austria GmbH
- Founded in 2005 by ARC Seibersdorf Research GmbH, the Vienna University of Technology and the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt
- Combined academic expertise in microsystems technology
- Built an industrial competence center serving multiple application areas
Renamed ACMIT Gmbh
- Medical technology became the company's central focus
- Establishment of the COMET K1 competence center ACMIT in 2010
- Company renamed to ACMIT Gmbh
- Exclusive focus on medical technology R&D from concept to clinical use ever since
ACMIT Manufacturing GmbH
- ACMIT's subsidiary
- Founded in 2018
- Provides contract manufacturing services for startup partners during the market-entry ramp-up phase
ACMIT Ventures
- Founded in 2025
- Provides venture-building services for medtech startups
- Includes access to the ACMIT Ventures Investor Network
Company Vision
We are the leading translational Medtech R&D center in Europe.
We offer:
Business planning support
IP strategy support
Fundraising support
Clinical trial management
Regulatory affairs support
Contract manufacturing
Co-financing
Investor network
All R&D services from idea to clinical use
International partner network
...to bring novel technology to the patient and make medical treatment safer and more efficient.
Company Mission
From idea to clinical use.
Management Board
Nikolaus Dellantoni
Dipl.-Ing.
Managing Director & Co-Owner
+43 2622 22859 0nikolaus.dellantoni@acmit.at
Bernhard Nußbaumer
Dipl.-Ing. MAS EMBA
Managing Director & Co-Owner
+43 664 3582028bernhard.nussbaumer@acmit.at
Gernot Kronreif
Prof. h.c. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.
Chief Scientific Officer
+43 2622 22859 0gernot.kronreif@acmit.at
Herbert Weißenböck
Dipl.-Ing. MSc.
Chief Technology Officer
+43 664 2127628herbert.weissenboeck@acmit.at
ACMIT Partner Network
The extensive network of partners helps us react to new challenges and research tasks in a very short period of time. Internationally renowned scientific partners provide cutting-edge knowledge as they are aware of the most recent trends and developments in minimally invasive interventions. Company partners add their expertise in realization of instruments and training systems and carefully consider market aspects. Finally, a group of renowned clinical partners ensures the additional benefit for the end-user in the operating room and the patient. This combination of competencies makes ACMIT an indispensable top partner in medical technology R&D.
Clinical partners have a significant share of the ACMIT scientific partner network. Their role is twofold: on the one hand they are a constant source of new
research questions, and on the other hand they play an important role for testing, verification and validation of research and development results in all project phases.
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- Company Partners
- Memberships
- Scientific Partners
MIT Entwicklungs-GmbH
Funding Bodies
ACMIT is supported by a broad range of regional, national and international funding agencies that foster the cooperation of industry, research institutions and clinics:
Dipl.-Ing. Nikolaus Dellantoni
Managing Director & Co-Owner
Dipl.-Ing. Bernhard Nußbaumer MAS EMBA
Managing Director & Co-Owner
iSYS Medizintechnik GmbH
Medical device manufacturer
Attractive Place to Work
ACMIT offers unique career opportunities in medical technology. As a translational research center it bridges the gap between academy and industry. Our scientists and R&D managers integrate the requirements of clinical research and product development.
We offer close cooperation with top experts in diverse fields, excellent working conditions with high-end lab equipment and personal development perspectives.
The concept of flexible normal working hours is part of our corporate culture, furthermore a modern IT infrastructure ensures teleworking and home office possibilities.
ACMIT provides healthy balance between professional and family life. We endeavor an easier return to work of our employees following parental leave.
ACMIT has been awarded with the „workplace health promotion“ by the Austrian network for WHP (Österreichischen Netzwerk für BGF) in the years from 2021 to 2026.
The well-being of our employees is ensured through meal vouchers, on-site snacks, free fruits and coffee.
Our Team
Working at ACMIT means to join an international group of experts in interdisciplinary fields.
Our competencies encompass medical robotics and mechatronics, microsystems technology and sensor development, micro-optics and fiber optics technology, work-flow integration and automation.
Not only a strong background and profound experience in science and technology are prerequisites for a successful career at ACMIT – openness, flexibility, team spirit and communicative competence are equally required.
Gender & Diversity
Equality, diversity and inclusion are essential core values for creating and disseminating new knowledge and for developing science into new direction. We want to create a gender-equal environment in which every member feels valued and supported in developing their potential. The ACMIT Gender Equality Plan (GEP) reflects our commitment to achieve a diverse and inclusive community.
Career Opportunities
ACMIT offers career opportunities in both R&D and management. ACMIT opens up a broad range of future career possibilities at our international company and scientific partners in medical technology.
We are interested in applications of established professionals, senior and junior researchers (postdoc, PhD, diploma, M.S., B.S.) in our relevant fields of R&D.
Students are invited to perform applied research projects, hands-on-trainings and write their thesis in cooperation with one of our scientific partners. Visiting international researchers are also welcome for a certain period of time.
If you are interested in working and doing research at ACMIT please send your application including CV, list of publications and other relevant documents to alexandra.jischa@acmit.at.
Join our team and dedicate yourself to challenging, inspiring and diversified tasks in minimally invasive medical technology!
Location
ACMIT is located in Wiener Neustadt within the Technology and Research Center TFZ, a booming and growing R&D site with three COMET competence centers ACMIT, AC²T and CEST. Main areas of R&D are in medical technology, sensor technology, surfaces, tribology (friction, wear, lubrication) and materials.
R&D entities in direct neighbourhood further include the research groups: MIAAI and LiST of the Danube Private University (DPU) , the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt and the radiotherapy center MedAustron Regular meetings with these research units are taking place in order to identify possible synergies and cooperation options.
The region around Wiener Neustadt offers a high quality of life. The mountainous area of Schneeberg, Rax and Semmering is ideal for hiking, climbing and skiing and the Austrian capital Vienna is not far away.
Sustainable Development Goals
"Good health and well-being, responsible consumption and production, climate action and partnerships” are the goals, that constitute sustainability in medical technology. In its R&D acitivites ACMIT addresses in particular the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
ACMIT's contribution to this sustainability goal is to develop new methods and tools for improved diagnosis and therapy. One of the main objectives behind each of ACMIT's development projects is to develop new technology that can provide reproducible and optimal patient outcome, even when such technology is being used by less experienced users. The "democratisation of therapy and treatment" is achieved through the transfer of expert knowledge via implemented system functionalities and optimised workflows. This concept makes modern therapies accessible to a large group of patients, especially in regions with less developed medical care.
As a leading international R&D centre, ACMIT successfully connects science and industry, enabling innovation and sustainable economic growth. To ensure a high-level education in medical engineering, ACMIT offers positions at different educational levels, e.g. internships, bachelor projects, master projects and PhD positions. Know-how is actively disseminated through scientific publications, lectures and participation in scientific events, but also through information events for the general public, such as "The Long Night of Science" and others.
ACMIT offers women and men equal opportunities for their professional development and has implemented an efficient set of procedures in order to support gender equality and to reach and maintain its related target numbers. More details can be found under Gender Equality Plan (GEP). In terms of project design and implementation, e.g. in the framework of requirement assessment, usability evaluation, clinical investigation – gender balance will be considered as strict as possible. In particular, ACMIT pays attention to a balanced distribution of pathologies for both patient groups male and female. For common pathologies, acquired and used data sets (e.g. training data for AI algorithms) will be in full gender balance.
The constantly growing medical technology market is one of the international driving factors for economic welfare. Technologies developed by ACMIT and its partners make an important contribution to the early detection and effective treatment of diseases. In particular for low-and-medium-income-countries medical products are developed in collaboration with representatives from these countries, giving the people there access to better medical treatment and enabling them to build up their economies. This creates new opportunities, stimulates education and leads to decent working conditions in these countries.
Innovation is the foundation of everything we do at ACMIT to fulfill our mission: "from idea to clinical use". By working with the best in science and industry, we succeed in establishing real innovations in the medical technology market. Numerous examples (see our project references) are impressive proof of this. Additionally, ACMIT has tailored its range of services specifically to the needs of start-ups in order to supplement missing activities and thus increase their probability of success and the number of medical technology innovations. Last but not least, this also provides particular support for ACMIT's own start-ups.
Two-thirds of the world's population are lacking safe and timely surgical care. The launch of the Global Surgery movement in 2015 was met with great enthusiasm and encouraging first efforts by international organisations to partake in what appeared to be the next big step in global health delivery. Even if the total number of surgeries increased, most low-and-medium-income-countries (LMIC) still have very low surgical volumes. To contribute to a reduction of this inacceptable level of inequalities, a significant share of ACMIT's strategic project budget is dealing with the development of medical technology for LMIC.
While socially oriented SDGs such as health, equality and education are well achievable for medical technology, the more environmentally oriented goals appear to be slower to take hold in this sector than in other areas. This may be due to regulatory requirements that medical devices must comply with before they can come onto the market. However, there are also several opportunities for environmental improvements in the medical device sector, that will be thoroughly investigated by ACMIT. The following aspects will be strongly considered in each development activity towards novel medical products:
- Use of sustainable materials (considering resource efficiency, low-emission production, reusability/degradability, etc)
- Reduction of packaging waste (also regarding EU Directives 94/62/EC and 2018/852)
- Increasing lifetime in order to decrease waste
- Implementing "circular economy" strategies (optimization reprocessing and recycling)
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United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Information
The COMET Center ACMIT is funded within COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies – by BMIMI, BMWET as well as the co-financing federal provinces Lower Austria and Tyrol. The COMET program is managed by FFG (www.ffg.at/comet).
COMET is the program for application-oriented cutting-edge research in the Republic of Austria.
COMET competence centers work together with companies and research partners to develop solutions for future topics such as climate protection, digitization, mobility and health. This strengthens Austria as a research and business location.
Success Stories
- DENTOSKULL™ – Multi-functional head model for training in oral and maxillofacial surgery
- RALV – Experience the achievable vision
- Improving the debridement of wounds - a robotic system that may define a new standard
- Collision avoidance for cone beam CT imaging for interventional radiology
- Autoguide – a small and lightweight robot system for neurosurgery
- Intraocular lens simulation device for optimized patient satisfaction
- Trifocal lens technology for application in ophthalmology
- Robot technology helps to increase safety and efficiency of vitreoretinal surgery
- Simulator for intraocular lens implants contributes to optimized vision quality based on individual parameters
- Optimisation of surgical procedures
- Hand-in-Scan won 2nd prize in Science2Business competition
- Objective hand hygiene control
- High-precision tool targeting in delicate tissue
- Innovative tools for Gynecological Image-Guided Adaptive Brachytherapy (IGABT)
- Novel multi-parameter sensor prototype for wound monitoring applications
- Enhanced cryo technology based biopsy sond
- Virtopsy – robot performs autopsy without opening the corpse
- Innovative eye-lenses for increased quality of life of elderly people in a modern leisure-loving society
- “Stery-Hand”—A breakthrough in medical hand hygiene compliance and technique control
- Idle Speed Limiter for dental drills goes easy on patient, doctor and instrument
- New interventional robot system supports microsurgical interventions
Awards and Prizes
- Award winner Houska Prize 2024
- ACMIT won the ecoplus Innovation Award 2023/2024 in the category of “Medicine, Medical Technology, Innovations in Healthcare and Life Sciences”
- Dr. Ankita Nachankar won the ÖGRO abstract award 2023
- Dr. Sepideh Hatamikia received the Best Paper Award 2022 of the Journal of Medical Physics
- Dr. Sepideh Hatamikia received the “Scientist of the Year 2022” Award from Danube Private University
- Laszlo Jaksa and his team won the ecoplus Innovation Award 2022/2023 in the category of “Medicine, Medical Technology, Medical Innovations”
- Prominent international award for ACMIT’s long-term scientific partner Prim. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Joachim Kettenbach
- Dr. Sepideh Hatamikia won the ecoplus Innovation Award 2021/2022 in the category of medical technology
- ACMIT Team won an Innovation Award 2021 at Technopol Wiener Neustadt
- ACMIT is awarded with „workplace health promotion“
- ACMIT won a Poster Award at the Interdisciplinary Symposium on Simulation in Medicine 2020
- ACMIT Partner piur imaging GmbH has been nominated for the „Innovator of the Year 2020“ in the category of medical technology
- The MassVentil project team won the 1st place in the Pan-European Hackathon in the category (challenge): ventilators/respirators
- ACMIT Partner Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited is the winner of Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2020 (Innovation)
- ACMIT Partner piur imaging wins “Born Global Champion”-Award
- ACMIT Partner W&H Awarded the “Austrian National Award for Innovation”
- 1st prize in innovation category of “Salzburger Wirtschaftspreis”
- Virtopsy wins Swiss ICT Special Award 2015
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