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Research funding by NWO will be simplified

Per 1 augustus 2018 voert NWO een grote vereenvoudiging door. Al haar financieringsinstrumenten brengt NWO terug tot een handvol ‘hoofdvormen’. Deze vereenvoudiging is een technische ingreep die verder geen invloed heeft op de invulling van de onderzoeksprogramma’s. Wat met de oude instrumenten kon, zal na 1 augustus nog steeds kunnen. Het verschil zal zijn dat het gehele palet instrumenten veel overzichtelijker wordt.
Research funding by NWO will be simplified

InSciTe experiences growth spurt

Based at the Brightlands Chemelot campus, InSciTe (Institute for Science and Technology) supports scientists and starting businesses to translate medical innovations to practical applications, among other things. Three years after it was founded, the biomedical department of the institute has outgrown its location. Construction will start this year on new labs and cleanrooms.
InSciTe experiences growth spurt

Benefit Call open for Belgium-Netherlands Funding of International Trials

The aim of the call is to provide funding for clinical trials that compare the effectiveness of existing health care interventions that are already in use in a given indication, e.g. comparisons between two medications, medical therapy versus surgery, trials investigating optimal timing of surgery etc.
Benefit Call open for Belgium-Netherlands Funding of International Trials

Read the special Health~Holland Update featuring the BIO-Europe Spring

The Top Sector LSH presents this special edition of the Health~Holland Update featuring the latest developments of the BIO-Europe Spring 2018. Read the magazine to get information on the programme, registration, side events and Dutch strengths. And see how to have a chance on winning a ticket!
Read the special Health~Holland Update featuring the BIO-Europe Spring

€12 million extra for start-ups healthcare

Het ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport en het ministerie van Economische Zaken en Klimaat investeren 12 miljoen in startende ondernemingen die innovatie zorgtechnologie ontwikkelen. Beide ministeries investeren dit bedrag in de zogenoemde SEED Capital-regeling, waarin drie fondsen zijn toegewezen, Health Innovation Fonds III, Healthy Capital I en Holland Venture Zorg Innovaties II. De bekendmaking van het gereserveerde bedrag valt aan het begin van de nationale e-healthweek.
€12 million extra for start-ups healthcare

First creative coalition for better design future healthcare

Zes creatieve MKB bedrijven met een focus op zorg en welzijn hebben zich op 16 januari j.l. aangesloten bij U CREATE, Centre of Expertise Future Health Design. De coalitie bestaat uit de Utrechtse bureaus Greenberry, Gainplay Studio, Design Innovation Group, Ideate uit Amersfoort, het Amsterdamse IJsfontein en Panton uit Deventer. Door participatie in innovatieve consortia, onderlinge kennisdeling en het inzetten van tal van ontwerpinzichten en methoden, maken de partijen zich hard voor een betere vormgeving van toekomstige zorg.
First creative coalition for better design future healthcare

SAAP-148, a powerful new weapon against drug-resistant bacteria inspired by the human body

How do you cure bacterial infections that can not be controlled with antibiotics? This is possible with peptides: short chains of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.
SAAP-148, a powerful new weapon against drug-resistant bacteria inspired by the human body

Batavia Biosciences Teams Up with International Consortium to Support Polio Eradication

Today Batavia Biosciences announces its partnership with an international consortium coordinated by PATH aiming to develop and manufacture safer novel oral poliovirus vaccines (nOPV). The project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has the potential to bolster efforts to sustain a polio-free world after the disease has been eradicated.
Batavia Biosciences Teams Up with International Consortium to Support Polio Eradication

Top Sectors continue cooperation on human capital

De Topsectoren en Team ICT continueren in 2018 hun gezamenlijke uitvoering van de roadmap “Human Capital Topsectoren 2016 – 2020”. De ambities die de Topsectoren in 2018 willen realiseren, staan in het Werkplan 2018. Daarbij sluiten de Topsectoren hun gezamenlijke activiteiten expliciet aan op de maatschappelijke uitdagingen, sleuteltechnologieën en de thema’s van de Nationale Wetenschapsagenda en Horizon2020.
Top Sectors continue cooperation on human capital

60 Projects get access to DTL Technology Hotels

In the Enabling Technologies Hotels (ETH) programme, life science researchers can apply for funding to get access to the high-end equipment and expertise of 130+ Technology Hotels that are listed on the DTL website. ZonMw has just announced which projects will be funded in the fourth call of the ETH programme.
60 Projects get access to DTL Technology Hotels