CONNECT WITH KEY PLAYERS IN HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES 21 APRIL 2022
On 21 April 2022, the 9th edition of the leading conference for key players in Health & Life Sciences, Innovation for Health, takes place in Amsterdam! Thus, mark your calendars and join us in-person or online at Innovation for Health 2022. The theme of the next conference builds upon our previous edition and isinnovation for prevention.
At Innovation for Health 2022, you get to share insights, catch up on the latest trends, establish new or build upon valuable connections and collaborations and much more. With our energizing programme, we bring top-notch speakers to the stage, display high impact innovations, highlight best practices, and demonstrate inspiring developments in healthcare. Inspiring, interacting, and networking are at the heart of the conference. Moreover, the conference brings over 900 innovators, entrepreneurs, thought leaders and other key players from Health & Life Sciences together to shape the future of healthcare together.
There is more and more attention for the importance of nutrition in preventing diseases. The relationship between nutrition and health is obvious, but to a large extent it is still virgin territory. Within the life sciences, health care and food sector, people are working hard on innovations. The strength, however, lies in cooperation. What new opportunities arise then? Do we want personalised drinks with ingredients that keep us healthy? Will we use smart apps in our personal (di)food choices? What are tips for entering into special nutrition contracts with health insurers? What challenges do these sectors face and what can they learn from each other?
During this exclusive free event, organised by LifetecZONe, Health Valley and Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo, we bring together entrepreneurs from all networks.
After the success of previous editions, Health Valley Event 2022 in Nijmegen will be bigger and more international than ever. We are setting up a live three-day program that will also be accessible online. The edition on 15, 16 and 17 March will focus on connect, challenge and grow! Experience the latest trends and developments in Life Science & Health. Be inspired, challenged and surprised. Will you join us?
Profiling & sponsoring
Interested in presenting your business or organisation on our dynamic exhibition floor or want to make use of our profiling options at HVE in another way? Check our wide range of promotional opportunities.
In short, Health Valley Event 2022 is an absolute must! For more information go to www.healthvalleyevent.com.
Picking the wrong people and creating the wrong team is the fastest way to kill your startup. But how do you pick the right people and create a team that complements each other? A team that is open, shares lessons and learns together?
After al, success is defined by the people in the company and the way they can cooperate.
Ideally you will have a team that mostly supports the direction your startup is going into, but with a certain amount of courage, a critical view and an ability to discuss the important matters. But mostly a team of people that complements you.
A complementary team starts with knowledge about yourself as a leader or founder. Who am I? What are my qualities? What are my pitfalls? How do I perceive the world?
Trainer Frank Stofmeel is a team and performance coach (see LinkedIn profile) and he will guide you through questions that will help you find out what you need from other people. It will help you to make your team complimentary to accelerate growth and increase results on the long term.
This workshop will be a quest into yourself and will help you find out what you need from other people to complement your character so you know how to build a successful team!
Live event We aim to organize this workshop in a live setting and will take all necessary RIVM/national guidelines into account. If a physical workshop is not possible, we will reschedule to a later date.
This workshop is specifically for innovative startups and entrepreneurs and is free of charge. We welcome new contacts, so feel free to share this invite with your network!
We would like to invite all women to celebrate female entrepreneurship on March 8, 2022! Women are underrepresented and underestimated in corporate leadership, making up only 4.8% of CEOs, despite making up 44.7% of total employees. Added to that, women are even now payed less than men in spite of doing the same tasks.
Mercator Launch hosts an interactive ask-me-anything meet-up with a panel of business women at different stages in their careers to discuss these advantages, challenges and opportunities. To hear their advice and learn from their own personal stories about starting an own business, combating gender stereotypes and championing the cause of women in the workplace, you can sign in now for this meet-up!
Panel consists of:
Marinka Nooteboom (CEO Koninklijke Nooteboom Groep & Businesswomen of the year 2022)
Chimwemwe de Gaay Fortman (Director Capital Oost NL)
Kris Bevelander (Owner Crowdience and senior researcher at Radboudumc)
Clear contracting During this interactive workshop Valerie and Joost from our supporting partner Poelmann van den Broek advocaten will discuss the importance of clear contracting. They will talk about common issues and pitfalls regarding contracting and general terms & conditions.
Topics Term Termination Intellectual Property Liability Exclusiveness Confidentiality
Of course there is ample opportunity for the participants to bring in examples and ask questions.
Presenters Valerie Lipman, attorney-at-law Joost van Dongen, attorney-at-law
Valerie and Joost are both specialized in commercial contracts, Intellectual property rights and IT-contracts. They advise large to medium-sized companies when entering into various types of agreements such as purchasing and sales contracts, supply contracts, licence agreements, collaboration agreements, non-disclosure agreements and general terms & conditions. In addition, they frequently litigate in court.
Don’t miss this workshop, sign up below!
Physical meeting? We aim to organize a physical meeting at Novio Tech Campus Nijmegen (if RIVM guidelines allow it), If needed, we will change to an online session or postpone the session.
This workshop is free of charge. We welcome new contacts, so feel free to share this invite with your network!
Yesterday we organised the workshop ‘How to grow your business internationally’. Lizanne Jakobs of Brilliant Work taught us a number of key points that you need to consider if you want to expand your business abroad. She listed some common mistakes and stressed the importance of setting goals and having a good preparation & planning. Besides the fact that you have to speak the language of the country where you want to do business, it is important that your presentation, brochures and website are professional. And don’t forget the culture of the country where you want to do business! It is also important to do market research first (Is there a market for your product, or maybe a different version of your product?) And what help can you get from the government? This very practical & valuable workshop laid a good foundation for crossing the border. Thank you Lizanne!
A novel microbiome-host profiling tool for health and disease.
TenWise BV and Predica Diagnostics BV have received financial support from the Dutch RVO (MIT-R&D-samenwerkingsproject) for the joint development of the high-throughput MicroBioDX platform for the characterization of microbiome-host interactions and their role in inflammatory bowel disease and cancer development and treatment.
Compared to existing state-of-the-art sequencing-based technologies, the MicroBioDX platform is more cost-effective, faster and more versatile: it maps host-microbiome interactions by yielding quantitative information on expression levels of hundreds of human genes of interest, while at the same time detecting pathogenic bacteria, fungi and viruses that are part of a diseased gut microbiome.
MicroBioDx uses ciRNAseq, Predica’s disruptive, high throughput targeted RNA sequencing technology in combination with TenWise’s expertise on literature mining, artificial intelligence and algorithm development, to detect biological pathways associated with health and disease. This combination will help researchers and medical doctors to better predict patient prognosis and guide treatment with precision medicines. Also, MicroBioDx will reduce costs of analyses for large datasets and reduce throughput time from a matter of weeks to a matter of days. It will therefore be very relevant for the evaluation of results of large clinical trials and of individual patients for whom a rapid diagnosis is essential.
“TenWise collaborates with Predica as ciRNAseq allows to measure both DNA/RNA from the human host as well as the microbiome from one and the same human sample. This means that human gene expression data and microbiome data are generated faster and interactions between the microbiome and host are determined more accurately. Within this project Predica also provides access to large data sets that we will use to validate our text mining based predictions”, comments Dr. Wynand Alkema, CSO of TenWise.
“Predica welcomes TenWise as a partner with expertise that is highly complementary to that of Predica”, says Dr. William Leenders, CSO of Predica Diagnostics. “As an expert in text mining and machine learning, TenWise will design knowledge maps of biological pathways that link relevant micro-organisms to expression of human genes that are part of the host response in health and disease. These knowledge maps are essential elements of the data interpretation software we will develop for researchers and for medical doctors who will be supported in rapid and accurate treatment of their patients.”
Predica Diagnostics B.V is a spinoff from the Radboudumc, active in the field of diagnostics, prognostics and prediction of treatment response in oncology. Predica Diagnostics aims to bring its ciRNAseq technology to patients in 1 to 2 years with a first focus on developing the CervicaDX test. This test allows non-invasive detection of cervical abnormalities in women who are at risk of developing cervical cancer, with unprecedented specificity. This, and other diagnostic tests for host-microbiome interactions will improve diagnosis, prognosis prediction and produce a list of potentially successful precision medicines, thus aiding in development of personalized treatment plans for cancer patients.
TenWise B.V. offers text mining solutions that help researchers and medical professionals to extract knowledge from literature in a fast and effective way. Also, it collaborates within consortia of industry and academia in life sciences on artificial intelligence solutions that assist in drug discovery with a special focus on interventions in the microbiome. The company is based at Leiden Bio Science Park, the Netherlands and works for clients around the world.
At the start of this year, Achterhoek Gezond took up the challenge of organising, financing and monitoring care differently; with a greater focus on health. To keep healthcare accessible and affordable, also in the future. We have taken the first steps, such as developing a scenario model and an analysis of ‘hot spots’ (where things are ready for improvement in Achterhoek Gezond).
We know that wonderful things are already happening and developing in the field of health. To make it easier for residents to live happy and healthy lives. We are looking for those initiatives. Perhaps such an initiative can become a development site for Healthy Region.
How to respond
All information about Achterhoek Healthy, development spots and what we are looking for can be found here.
Do you think that your initiative, idea, project, programme or collaboration could qualify as a development spot? Let us know about it!
You can do so by filling in the online reaction form. Please do so before 17 January 2022.
Briskr and Catalyze have announced a new partnership whereby Catalyze will provide support to Briskr start-ups and SMEs towards successful growth. Briskr is a consortium in the Nijmegen area with the aim of helping start-ups and SMEs to grow faster and make more impact on the Life Sciences & Health and High-Tech sectors. Briskr believes that interaction between knowledge-intensive companies and knowledge institutes, such as universities and government institutions, is essential to realize innovation. Operating in three areas – business support, project and program development for innovation activities, and acquisition of innovation companies, Briskr brings together innovative entrepreneurs in its incubation program (start-ups), acceleration program (scale-ups), and activation program (established SMEs).
Briskr Programme Manager, Martijn Kriens, together with Catalyze Founder & Director, Jalal Es-Sbai.
Catalyze is an innovation consultancy delivering expertise, ranging from strategic consultancy to funding applications, to project management, for clients working in the fields of life sciences & health, and green & sustainable innovations. Driven by a belief that the most meaningful innovations deserve the best chance to succeed, Catalyze has established itself as a key player in the innovation ecosystem, headquartered in Amsterdam and operating worldwide. To date, Catalyze has raised €750 million in funding for its clients, built a network ecosystem of more than 2500 partners, and grown to over 120 employees.
Catalyze joins the Briskr ecosystem as a supporting partner that will deliver comprehensive strategic support, including contribution to Briskr’s general programming, provision of training activities, business coaching and general strategic advice to the entrepreneurs. Activities provided will cover strategic funding advice, tips and tricks for grant writing, and the opportunity for Briskr start-ups and SMEs to gain further strategic support. Together, Catalyze and Briskr will work to accelerate the success of Briskr members operating in Life Sciences & Health and High Tech.
Jalal Es-Sbai, Founder & Director of Catalyze comments on the new partnership:
“The life sciences & health business community in the Nijmegen region contains a mix of exciting new start-ups, fast-growing scale-ups, SME’s and pharmaceutical companies. It is great to be part of Briskr network together with partners such as the municipality of Nijmegen, Oost NL, Rabobank, the Economic Board, Janssen Pharmaceuticals and the Radboud Universities. We are looking forward to beginning our role as partner, wherein we will make impact for its members by providing strategic support, focussed squarely on accelerating new innovations. Through this new partnership, we also further strengthen our position as innovation consultants.”
Martijn Kriens, Programme Manager of Briskr:
“Working together with companies in supporting knowledge intensive start-ups is important to create an impact driven ecosystem in Nijmegen. This support around different dimensions is important. As supporting partners we now have Aeternus (company valuation), BDO (accounting), EP&C (patent attorneys), Janssen Pharmaceuticals JLABS (acceleration), Rabobank (financials), Poelmann van den Broek (lawyers) and now Catalyze. The addition of the knowledge of Catalyze around strategic fundraising and project management will further help start-ups in our ecosystem to grow.”
