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Latest News

• 26 January 2012 Prosensa, the Dutch biopharmaceutical company focusing on RNA-modulating therapeutics for rare diseases with high unmet needs, announced that it has raised €23 million in new equity financing. Read more »
• 18 January 2012 Waste2Chemical BV and Wageningen UR: Mibiton Science financing pilot facility to valorise organic waste to biochemicals. In December 2011, the Board approved investment in the first Mibiton Science facility, which was submitted by the start-up company Waste2Chemical BV and Wageningen University. Read more »
• 19 December 2011 to-BBB, the Dutch brain drug delivery company, has been awarded a grant of over €600,000 through the “Internationaal Innoveren” program of the Dutch government agency Agentschap NL to support a brain drug delivery partnership with a top-5 pharma company. Read more »
• 14 December 2011 The Fall 2011 edition of the Venture Challenge took a surprising turn when two winners were announced during the Dutch Life Sciences & Health conference in Media Plaza, Utrecht. Life sciences ventures Muscabiotics and Prognostix will split the €25,000 prize money. Read more »
• 01 December 2011 Thuja Capital's portfolio company ArGEN-X, a biopharmaceutical company focussed on the development of human monoclonal antibodies from its propeitory SIMPLE antibody platform, announced the successfully closing of a EUR 27.5 million (USD 37 million), serie B financing round. Read more »
• 16 November 2011 Arcarios, a drug development company focusing on bone and joint diseases, announced that it has received a grant of €920K from the Flemish Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT) to develop modulators of the TGF-beta superfamily of drug targets. Read more »
• 03 November 2011 Venture Challenge participant In Ovo wins the MVO Pluimvee Award Read more »
• 21 October 2011 The NGI Venture Challenge fall edition is up and running at this moment. The winner will be announced during the Dutch Life Sciences & Health conference on December 13 in Utrecht. Read more »
• 13 October 2011 Venture Challenge 2009 team ClearDetections was nominated for the Food Valley award 2011. Click read more to see their interesting innovation filmtrailer. Read more »
• 28 September 2011 NGI Pre-Seed Grant project TopoChip analyzes thousands of ‘Braille for cells’ structures at lightning speed. The University of Twente has developed a chip that can be used to test the impact of various structures, both simply and on a large scale. The chip, which makes it possible to examine the effect of 2,178 different surface structures in one go. Up until recently, it was standard procedure to study just a few structures at a time. From now on, analysts will be able to identify the surface with the best effect on the cells much more quickly.The researchers were recently awarded a Pre-Seed Grant. They will receive subsidy worth 250,000 euros so that they can develop the technology for large-scale commercial use. Read more »

Open Calls & Deadlines

• Venture Challenge Spring 2012
  The Call for the Venture Challenge Spring 2012 has been opened! Submit your proposal by 6 March 2012, 12:00 hrs at the latest. Read more »

Upcoming Events

• LifeSciences@work Event 2012
  In June, LifeSciences@work will organise together with Niaba and Mibiton an unique event for start-up biotech companies and entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences.
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