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Health~Holland, the brand name and communication channel of the Top Sector Life Sciences & Health, recently launched a portal on www.health-holland.com. This online gateway serves as the central information hub for life sciences and health SMEs and other organisations in the Netherlands and internationally . The portal’s content focuses on the Top Sector’s priorities, including finance, public-private partnerships, crossovers and… Continue reading →

Marten Smidt, professor of Molecular Neuroscience, was recently appointed director of University of Amsterdam’s Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS). He is responsible for leading the Molecular Neuroscience research team at SILS, and closely involved with education at the Faculty of Science in his capacity as programme director of the Neurobiology cluster. Marten Smidt will succeed Prof. Willem Stiekema as a… Continue reading →

Recently, Open PHACTS, the knowledge management project of IMI, was awarded first prize in the Linked Open Data Award category of the European Linked Data Contest (ELDC). Open PHACTS is an international 30 member consortium, with the VU, University of Maastricht, LUMC, and the former NBIC as Dutch contributors. DTL’s industrial partners The Hyve, Phortos Consultants and Micelio are amongst the 50+ associated partners of the project.  The Open PHACTS… Continue reading →

Professor Barend Mons has been appointed Chair of the Commission High Level Expert Group “European Open Science Cloud”, initiated by the European Commission, DG Research and Innovation. Barend Mons is professor in Biosemantics at the Human Genetics department of Leiden University Medical Center, is Head of Node for ELIXIR-NL at the Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences, Integrator Life Sciences at the Netherlands… Continue reading →

Recently, the Dutch Science Agenda announced a public call for the submission for questions to science. In the Dutch Science Agenda the themes and research questions that science will focus on in the coming years are being brought together. A total of 11,700 questions have been submitted, which have been clustered in 250 overarching themes. To disclose the material collected… Continue reading →