HEIDELBERG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Representatives of the European health technology clusters in Leuven (Belgium) and the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region (Biotech Cluster Rhine-Neckar BioRN, Germany) now announced at the Regional Development Summit in Heidelberg the launch of a new initiative called “Health Axis Europe”. The members of the Health Axis Europe committee include key individuals of each cluster representing the local industry, science, politics and venture capital. In a first kick-off meeting the committee members convened in Heidelberg to discuss the outline and the next steps of the Health Axis Europe initiative. A representative of the Cambridge life science cluster also attended the conference as Cambridge is the next candidate to be invited to join the alliance. The event was organized by BioRN Cluster Management GmbH.