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WasteBase receives AUAS Launch Grant
Creatieve oplossing voor reststromen. Studenten Romaike Slikker en Ramon Iongh ontwikkelden binnen het 10K programma van het HvA Venture Centre een innovatieve oplossing voor hergebruik van materialen. Met de toekenning van een HvA Launch Grant kunnen zij hun idee uitwerken tot een prototype. “We gaan een marktplaats starten waar producenten uit de Nederlandse industrie hun […]
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Amsterdam UMC spin-off PacingCure received EIC Transition funding
Amsterdam UMC spin-off PacingCure received a prestigious EIC Transition grant of 2.5 million euros. PacingCure develops platform gene transfer technologies for the heart and uses these technologies to engineer novel treatments for cardiac arrhythmias in patients with high unmet medical needs.
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Haermonics Series A funding offers Pure™ promise for future heart surgery patients
Haermonics, a clinical-stage breakthrough medtech company, has successfully closed a 4.3 M Series-A financing round with an investment syndicate led by existing shareholder BOM, strategic partner Demcon and Stepping Stone (a fund managed by healthtech venture builder NLC), further including impact investor Invest-nl and a group of strategic private co-investors.
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AmSIA ’21 winner SolarFoil spins out UvA
UvA’s most recent spinout SolarFoil aims to increase greenhouse productivity by optimizing sunlight to increase crop yields. In doing so, the use of SolarFoil aims to reduce the use of energy- hungry artificial lighting and make horticulture more sustainable.
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Eddytec spins out HvA and UvA
Eddytec is the newest spin out of Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) and University of Amsterdam (UvA). It develops sensing solutions for detection of defects in carbon fibre composites.
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Call for Amsterdam UMC TKI-PPP grant proposals
We are very happy to announce that the call for Amsterdam UMC TKI-PPP grants is now open. Deadline for your pre-applications is November 18, 2022.
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Demonstrator Grant for development of novel chemical probe
Prof. Sander Woutersen of the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (UvA) has been awarded a Demonstrator Grant of 160,000 euros by the Dutch Research Council NWO (Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences). Together with his colleague and Veni-fellow Dr Giulia Giubertoni he will be developing a structure- and size-sensitive chemical probe. In their project […]
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Start-up OrthoKey BV received financing from Innovation Fund
OrthoKey B.V., een start-up gevestigd in Amsterdam, heeft een converteerbare lening ontvangen van het Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland voor de ontwikkeling van haar oplossing ter verbetering van de diagnostiek bij klachten na een gewrichtsvervanging. Het project komt voort uit het Amsterdam UMC en wordt mede gefinancierd vanuit een Topconsortium Kennis & Innovatie, Public Private Partnership (TKI-PPP) en […]
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Anya Biotech wins the Proefdiervrij Venture Challenge 2022
Anya Biotech, representing Amsterdam UMC, has won the second edition of the Proefdiervrij Venture Challenge on the 22nd of April 2022. Their winning innovation is based on research from the Department of Medical Biology at the AMC. The team takes home €25.000, – in prize money to kick-start their venture based on human heart models […]
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#thisisvalorisationtoo: book by UvA researchers full of language mysteries and curious stories in bookstore now
Every language contains riddles and secrets, currently there are seven thousand+ known languages. A treasure trove of colourful, curious and enigmatic stories. Every language tells a story about and gives a picture of the culture and the people that speak or have spoken this language. And every language is full of riddles and secrets that […]
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