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Jan Raaijmakers chairman top sector Life Sciences & Health

4 February 2015 Jan Raaijmakers (1952) wordt door minister Kamp van Economische Zaken benoemd tot nieuw boegbeeld voor de topsector Life Sciences en Health.

Become a life sciences entrepreneur!

29 January 2015 Lifesciences@Work and Topsector Life Sciences & Health warmly invite all Life Sciences researchers to participate in the Venture Challenge Spring 2015.

TraIT platform welcomes the 1,000th researcher

19 January 2015 The 1,000th researcher, working at the Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital in Tilburg, has registered for TraIT to process research results

Treeway announces License and Collaboration Agreement with uniQure to develop a Gene Therapy for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

15 January 2015 Rotterdam, 14 January 2015 – Treeway B.V., founded by entrepreneurs Bernard Muller and Robbert Jan Stuit, both diagnosed with ALS, have announced a collaboration with uniQure N.V., a leading gene therapy company, (NASDAQ:QURE), to develop a gene therapy treatment for ALS.

Prof. dr. Nico van Meeteren nieuwe directeur Stichting LSH en secretaris van het Topteam LSH

3 December 2014 Rob van Leen, boegbeeld en voorzitter van het topteam en regiegroep van de Topsector Life Sciences & Health (LSH), maakt vandaag bekend dat Prof. dr. Nico van Meeteren de opvolger wordt van Frans van den Boom bij de Topsector LSH. Per 1 februari 2015 start Van Meeteren, tot voor kort Innovatiedirecteur van TNO, als Directeur van de Stichting LSH en secretaris van het Topteam LSH.

BioMarin acquires Prosensa in $840 million deal

24 November 2014 BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. and Prosensa Holding N.V. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement in which BioMarin will offer to purchase all of the outstanding ordinary shares of Prosensa for $17.75 per share, for a total up front consideration of approximately $680 million. In addition, two approximately $80 million contingent milestones are payable for the approval of drisapersen in the U.S. no later than May 15, 2016 and Europe no later than February 15, 2017, respectively.