Op 11 september heeft Aad Veenman, Boegbeeld Topsector Logistiek, het eerste exemplaar van de tweede Voortgangsrapportage Human Capital Roadmap Topsectoren 2016-2020 overhandigd aan minister Kamp van Economische Zaken.
With effect from 1 October, Professor Anton Pijpers (1958) will be the new president of the Executive Board of Utrecht University. He has already been vice-president since 2014. Pijpers will succeed Marjan Oudeman, who left the position of president in June.
A number of countries and foundations pledged EUR 56.5 million to help develop new treatments to fight against antibiotic resistance, during a fundraising event for the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP).
Her Majesty Queen Máxima will be present at the World of Health Care congress on the 28th of September in the Fokker Terminal in The Hague. During this congresstival, the central theme is improving healthcare globally.
Mimetas, in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company Roche, has developed a novel organ-on-a-chip system that supports evaluation of intestinal permeability in perfused 3D gut tubules in high throughput under exposure to pharmacological compounds. The results of this research were published in the scientific journal Nature Communications.
Today Health~Holland, Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (LSH), launches the Knowledge and Innovation Agenda 2018-2021 titled Grow~Motion. This new strategic document describes the health and care ambitions for the next four years (2018-2021).
De samenwerking tussen bedrijven, kennisinstellingen en de overheid is versterkt dankzij de topsectorenaanpak. Door private en publieke middelen gerichter in te zetten wegen de voordelen van de topsectorenaanpak op tegen de investeringen. Dit is een van de conclusies van het onderzoeksbureau Dialogic dat een evaluatie uitvoerde naar de effecten van de topsectorenaanpak.
Japanese firm Human Metabolome Technologies (HMT) has chosen Leiden for its European office and started operations July 1st 2017 at the Leiden Bio Science Park. This biotechnology company develops capillary electrophoresis mass spectrometry (CE-MS) based metabolomics technologies and solutions to drive drug discovery, diagnosis, and food production.
Pharming Group announced The Lancet has published data from a Phase II, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of Ruconest for the prevention of hereditary angioedema attacks.