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VEO wins Proefdiervrij Venture Challenge 2023
Scientific innovations that can replace laboratory animals are already highly advanced. Yet implementation still leaves much to be desired. That is why Proefdiervrij supports researchers to bring their non-animal methods to the market with the Proefdiervrij Venture Challenge. During this challenge, teams of researchers work incredibly hard to turn their animal-free innovations into a start-up […]
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NWO-funding for Dr. Herwig Bachmann’s evolutionary technology with microbes
Dr. Herwig Bachmann’s innovative system, Evogold, has received funding from the Open Technology Programme (OTP), by the NWO, to further the innovation of experimental evolution or the purposeful growing of microbial populations. The use of microbes plays a major role in food, biotechnological, and medical industries. The innovative system will make new applications possible, such as in the process of making bread and the carbonation of soft drinks.
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Kick-off Biotech Booster programme in Amsterdam: Thematic Cluster 4 ‘Diagnostics/Services’
We’re off! As part of the Biotech Booster programme, IXA is setting up the Thematic Cluster 4 ‘Diagnostics/Services’ in Amsterdam.
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Max Nijman (founder Flame Away) one of the 50 FD Talents
Only available in Dutch. Max Nijman, oprichter van VU startup Flame Away, is verkozen als een van de 50 talenten die verschijnen in het Financieel Dagblad 50 onder de 35. Dit is een lijst waarin gekeken wordt naar jonge talenten die de wereld een stukje beter maken. Max startte drie jaar geleden met een studieproject […]
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Sign up for Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award 2023
Do you have an innovative idea that could positively impact tomorrow’s world?
Submit your idea and compete to win € 10,000!
ERC Proof of Concept Grant for VU chemist Tom Grossmann
Tom Grossmann, professor of Biomimetic Chemistry at VU Amsterdam, has been awarded a Proof of Concept grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for the project “Smart RNA delivery for therapy and diagnostic (grabRNA)”.
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First drug developed by AMC spin-off reaches market
Medicin developed by Amsterdam UMC researchers, to treat life-threatening virus in newborns is ready for use.
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Start-up Photosynthetic receives Eurostars grant and wins Formnext Start-Up Challenge
Photosynthetic, a VU tech start-up developing 3D lithography technology and founded by postdoctoral researcher and entrepreneur Alexander Kostenko, has not been sitting still in the past years.
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VU and Amsterdam UMC well represented in Take-off approvals NWO
In the 2022 autumn round of the NWO Take-off Grant, six Amsterdam projects, developed at VU Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC, have been awarded a Take-off grant. With this Take-off grant, academic and innovative starters can investigate whether their science-based innovative ideas are feasible and commercially applicable. They can also explore the possibility of starting a […]
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Now online a podcast series about entrepreneurship
Find inspiration in this series of Podcasts about sustainable and inclusive entrepreneurship
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