On April 28, 2022 during the Laser World of Photonics Congress in Munich, Germany, the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) Meeting was held. The aim of the EPIC meeting is to discuss the current demands, solutions and concepts for medical instrumentation and devices. During the meeting, WINTHER partner iThera Medical‘s CEO, Christian Wiest presented his talk titled “Translating Optoacoustic Imaging – the Long Journey from Preclinical Research into Clinical Routine”.