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Start-up Reperio developing diagnostic technology for glaucoma and neurodegenerative diseases raises investment

Thursday 5 November 2020

Life Cooperative

Reperio, an UMCG spin-off company and start-up member of the LIFE Cooperative, accelerates the diagnostic process for glaucoma and neurodegenerative diseases using eye-tracking technology. Blue...

Campus ecosystem invests in SG Papertronics

Monday 21 September 2020

Life Cooperative

A beer of the highest quality. With its high-quality test, the SG Papertronics offers continuity in quality for the craft brewery sector. The product of the Groningen start-up has great potential,...

First patients treated in First-in-Human Trial for Polyganics’ Innovative Liver and Pancreas Sealant Patch

Wednesday 16 September 2020

Life Cooperative

Polyganics, a medical technology company developing and member of the LIFE Cooperative, manufacturing and commercializing bioresorbable medical devices, today announced treatment of the first...

InnoCore Pharmaceuticals to develop long-acting injectable contraceptive implant

Tuesday 15 September 2020

Life Cooperative

InnoCore Pharmaceuticals, a Dutch pharmaceutical drug delivery and development company and member of the LIFE Cooperative, announced that it received a $ 1.5M grant to develop an 18-month acting...

Agreement signed for new Innovation Center Chemistry and Engineering on Campus Groningen

Wednesday 9 September 2020

Life Cooperative

A week ago, the Campus ecosysteem presented the ‘Campus Community Fund’ of € 500 million to further develop Campus Groningen. The first project that will set the fund into action has become known:...

Campus Community Fund invests 500 million euros in Campus Groningen for impact on tomorrow’s world

Wednesday 2 September 2020

Life Cooperative

Investing together in one ecosystem to achieve more impact. “That’s why a Campus Community Fund is important”, as confirmed by Wiebe Draijer, chairman of the Managing Board Rabobank and Koen...

Pharma Connect Capital invests in Hercules Pharmaceuticals B.V.

Thursday 6 August 2020

Life Cooperative

Groningen-based investment fund Pharma Connect Capital today announced it has made an investment in Hercules Pharmaceuticals B.V., a biopharmaceutical company focusing on the development of novel...

OFINEXT 100% part of the Ofichem Group

Tuesday 4 August 2020

Life Cooperative

Last year, Lab Ofichem set up a new Business Unit, Ofinext, through a joint venture. Ofichem Group can now announce that Ofinext has been completely taken over by Lab Ofichem and has therefore...

On the way to 'one size fits all' tracer

Friday 26 June 2020

Life Cooperative

Researchers of the UMCG on Campus Groningen recently got the first hopeful results with a fluorescente tracer that can be used to trace a range of tumors safely and efficiently. In a first study...

QPS hopeful about drug for corona patients

Wednesday 10 June 2020

Life Cooperative

In Groningen, at the Petrus Campersingel on the Healthy Ageing Campus Groningen,, QPS is doing research for a drug for a pharmaceutical company to tackle the symptoms of the coronavirus. It is an...

MercachemSyncom: de kracht van de synergie

Tuesday 9 June 2020

Life Cooperative

With approximately 450 employees, MercachemSyncom is probably the largest chemistry CRO in Europe. The last decade in particular has seen steady growth, which was recently concluded with the...

Northern innovations from Syncom, Lode and Avebe receive COVID-19 grant SNN

Monday 8 June 2020

Life Cooperative

On April 10, 2020, the three northern provinces and SNN made one million euros available for innovative corona solutions. In total, 22 proposals were submitted by northern entrepreneurs,...

Northern Netherlands global expert in developing diagnostics

Wednesday 20 May 2020

Life Cooperative

Scoops and innovations; We should see them more in the near future in the Northern Netherlands in the field of diagnostics (means for making diagnoses). SNN has given a positive assessment of the...

Polyganics and Syncom awarded €1.2 million for research into liver and pancreas sealant patch

Thursday 14 May 2020

Life Cooperative

The companies Polyganics and Syncom on Campus Groningen have been awarded a 1,2 million grant for research after a liver and pancreas sealant patch. A large portion of this grant stems from the...

EPIC webinar for Enzyme ecosystem on May 14th

Tuesday 28 April 2020

Life Cooperative

Prominent researchers, groundbreaking entrepreneurs and innovative companies, they all find each other in the focus on enzymes on Campus Groningen. Enzymes are biological motors and responsible for...

'Northern Netherlands can do a lot on its own'

Tuesday 28 April 2020

Life Cooperative

From smart thermometers and catheters to a new corona test. These things are all being developed in the North of the Netherlands. "We can do a lot by ourselves. This is a good moment to become less...

Great interest from innovative north in COVID19 million

Friday 17 April 2020

Life Cooperative

The COVID19 Grant from SNN subsidy has rapidly become available to northern entrepreneurs and knowledge institutions for new research or innovative solutions that contribute to the current health...

PulmoTech selected for Techleap COVID-19 program

Thursday 16 April 2020

Life Cooperative

The Groningen-based company PulmoTech is one of the 8 selected startups for the Techleap COVID-19 program. The Techleap COVID-19 program has been launched to enable a select group of entrepreneurs...

SNN and LIFE Cooperative organize webinar on COVID-19 subsidy

Thursday 16 April 2020

Life Cooperative

A subsidiy has rapidly become available for northern entrepreneurs and knowledge institutions to come up with creative and innovative solutions to cope with the consequences of the corona virus...

LIFE Cooperative with AccelMed for faster development of medical technology

Thursday 9 April 2020

Life Cooperative

AccelMed is a contraction of Accelerate and Medical. Under this name, various parties combine their expertise in the field of medical technology. They accelerate the development of new products or...

TRACER and the UMCG consolidate expertise to accelerate COVID-19 treatments and vaccines

Tuesday 31 March 2020

Life Cooperative

Unique Profit-Free Consortium Releases Immediate Capacity and Infrastructure to Accelerate COVID-19 Treatments and Vaccine Research. TRACER B.V and the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)...

Ventilation modules Demcon against coronavirus

Thursday 19 March 2020

Life Cooperative

The ventilation modules from Demcon macawi respiratory systems save lives now that the coronavirus is present around the world. Never before has the need for ventilation systems been so great....

Update events regarding the corona virus

Monday 16 March 2020

Life Cooperative

Regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19), the LIFE Cooperative follows the most recent information of the RIVM and the policy of their members. Due to recent developments, the events in March where the...

MercachemSyncom opens USA office in Cambridge

Wednesday 4 March 2020

Life Cooperative

MercachemSyncom, the leading mid-sized European drug-discovery contract research organization, and member of the LIFE Cooperative, has celebrated the opening of its first office in the USA at the...

Start building new facility Polyganics

Wednesday 4 March 2020

Life Cooperative

Polyganics, a medical technology company developing, manufacturing and commercializing bioresorbable medical devices, announced the ground-breaking of a new facility at Campus Groningen, location...

AccelMed is looking for MedTech managers / entrepreneurs!

Friday 14 February 2020

Life Cooperative

AccelMed is the brand new Startup Accelerator for Medical Technology and Devices of the Northern Netherlands. Initiated by the Life Cooperative, AccelMed helps startups become investable by...

MercachemSyncom closes acquisition of Alcami Weert

Tuesday 14 January 2020

Life Cooperative

Expands portfolio of chemistry services from compound design to clinical proof of concept.

Polyganics Achieves CE Mark Certification for LIQOSEAL®

Tuesday 7 January 2020

Life Cooperative

Groningen, The Netherlands, 07 January 2020 – Polyganics, a medical technology company developing, manufacturing and commercializing bioresorbable medical devices, announced today that it has...

Tell me about the North: Top Dutch Stories

Tuesday 17 December 2019

Life Cooperative

So much is happening and brewing on Campus Groningen, within the LIFE Cooperative and in the three Northern provinces. Innovative projects and ambitious companies all around! TopDutch tells these...