Partners 2024
Interested in becoming a conference partner?
Contact Miranda de Regt at miranda.de.regt@dutchlifesciences.com
or call +31 (0)252 75 5810 to discuss the possibilities.
Main partner
Health~Holland
Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (Health~Holland) works together with public and private parties to promote the economic opportunities of the societal theme Health & Care of the Dutch cabinet’s Mission-driven Top Sectors and Innovation Policy. The coalition does this on the basis of the five Health & Care missions, formulated by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. The central mission is as follows: By 2040, all Dutch citizens will live at least five years longer in good health, while the health inequalities between the lowest and highest socioeconomic groups will have decreased by 30%. There are four underlying missions that contribute to this central mission through changes to lifestyle and living environment, offering more care in the right place and better perspectives for people with chronic diseases, lifelong disabilities and dementia. With this approach, the Netherlands seeks to effectively tackle major societal challenges. Industry can optimally respond to the economic opportunities that these challenges bring.
Hosted by
Leiden Bio Science Park
Leiden Bio Science Park is the first, largest and most comprehensive Life Sciences and Health cluster in the Netherlands. Since its inception, the park has become a hub of innovation, fostering groundbreaking R&D, public-private partnerships, and a cosmopolitan business climate.
Today, the park is home to a dynamic community of 470 organisations, ranging from leading biotech companies and renowned knowledge institutes to innovative startups and even museums. As the meeting place for multidisciplinary talent and the home of groundbreaking discoveries, we are shaping the future of health by making treatments, medication, and solutions more personal, accessible, faster to develop, and quality-driven.
Programme sponsors
Axon
Axon is a full scope life sciences law firm with a focus on pharma, medical technology and food with respect to among other things IP licensing, corporate, commercial contracts, M&A, financing, regulatory and litigation. Axon assists life sciences companies bringing innovative products to the market and concluding commercial and R&D driven transactions.
To see what we can do for you, please visit our website https://www.axonlawyers.com/
Johnson & Johnson Innovation
At Johnson & Johnson Innovation, our mission is to curate and cultivate the world’s most promising, early-stage healthcare innovation wherever it originates. Through our global Johnson & Johnson Innovation network, we provide regional points of entry for life science and health technology innovators to access the breadth and depth of offerings that are unique to the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies.
Through our regional teams –led out of Boston, London, San Francisco and Shanghai –we deeply and actively participate in the external, early innovation ecosystem around the world. Johnson & Johnson Innovation’s diverse team of science and technology experts helps life science startups thrive and fuels the global life science ecosystem through flexible, customized partnership models and collaborations; early-stage incubation, startup services and mentorship; and strategic venture capital investments.
Progress
Progress consultants, your experts in Life Sciences.
Progress provides project management, interim management and consultancy services in the field of Pharmaceutical and Bioprocess Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality Control, Chemistry Manufacturing and Controls (CMC), Technology Transfer, Regulatory Affairs, Validation, Lean Six Sigma / Operational Excellence and Quality Management (GxP, QA, QP/RP).
Progress holds a leading position in fast and effective support and has an excellent track record of ensuring customers reach their goals. Our consultants utilize and share their wide knowledge and broad experience to accelerate your projects. Our services are characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach, flexibility, added value and persistence. Continuously training, motivating, inspiring and challenging our employees is therefore a high priority for us.
We accelerate improvement!
PwC
PwC – Pharma & Life Sciences profile
Across the whole Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences value chain, PwC's trusted professional advisors use their wealth of industry based experience, knowledge and expertise to help our clients evaluate their strategic business options, improve management and control, and identify cost saving initiatives.
At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We're a network of firms in 157 countries with more than 208,000 people. At PwC in the Netherlands over 4,400 people work together. We're committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. Please visit us at www.pwc.nl
Working closely with our clients, ranging from small entrepreneurial life science companies to large global corporations, we aim to achieve increased performance by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of a company’s key business operations.
In the Netherlands we have a broad sectorteam of dedicated professionals, focussing on our various regions. This includes both the industry but also knowledge institutions (such as universities in Amsterdam, Leiden, Utrecht, Eindhoven and Maastricht) and innovative businessparks (such as Amsterdam Biomed, Leiden Bioscience, Utrecht Sciencepark, Pivotpark Oss and Healthcampus Maastricht). Through this local dedication and focus, we have a proven track record of connecting the industry in a proactice way.
Please read more about how our Pharma & Life Sciences team can help you: www.pwc.nl/pharma
QAD
QAD is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software across various industries including life sciences. For more than 40+ years, QAD has provided life sciences-focused solutions to help medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotech manufacturers improve operational efficiency, optimize supply chain and sourcing strategies, and deliver high-quality therapies to patients who need them most.
Today, over 450+ life sciences GMP-regulated sites have deployed QAD solutions including QIAGEN, IMRIS, Oticon, Medline, and Laerdal. QAD’s unique solutions allow companies to integrate quality into core business processes, achieve greater supply chain traceability and governance, and manage critical quality planning processes to ensure compliance with global GMP regulations.
QbD
The QbD Group empowers the life science industry through end-to-end solutions that tackle the most pressing challenges.
Our global team of +650 experts acts as an extension of your in-house capabilities, providing deep domain expertise across medical devices, in vitro diagnostics, pharma, and biotech solutions.
At QbD, we offer skills and expertise for solving complex problems from quality, regulation, and validation to clinical and lab services, software, business, and communication solutions.
We are headquartered in Belgium and have offices in the Netherlands, Spain, France, the UK, Switzerland, Austria, Mexico, Colombia, and the US.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Through our Thermo Scientific brands, we help customers accelerate innovation and enhance productivity. Thermo Fisher Scientific supplies innovative solutions for the world’s clinical, academic, research and pharmaceutical industries.
V.O. Patents & Trademarks
V.O. Patents & Trademarks is one of the larger independent Intellectual Property firms in Europe. We offer services in patent and trademark protection, as well as market and engineering intelligence in terms of IP.
We have wide expertise and many years of experience in Chemistry, Life Sciences, Engineering and Hightech & Electronics. More than 60 attorneys support clients worldwide to maximize the value of their intellectual property.
Clients range from tech starters and midsized innovators to knowledge centers and multinationals. They include leading national and international companies and institutes. With nine offices in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, we operate in a global network of professionals.
Our work is recognized worldwide by the IP industry. V.O. is praised as "a center of excellence" in Intellectual Asset Magazine and in 2023 we received The Netherlands prosecution IP Firm of the Year Award from Managing IP Magazine. We are listed as a leading European patent law firm by Financial Times.
Visit our website at www.vo.eu
Startup supporter
Pivot Park
Discover Europe’s foremost biopharmaceutical campus: Pivot Park
Pivot Park was founded in 2012 to provide the optimal European location for innovative pharmaceutical companies. Today, this advanced science campus helps early-phase entrepreneurs, fast-growth scale-ups and mature global leaders take their next steps in their ambition to improve global health care.
As home to 600 people working at over 60 companies, we make sure they have what they need to succeed. The park combines lab and office spaces with high-quality R&D facilities, two GMP-certified pilot plants, an Ultra-High-Throughput Screening Centre, on-site analytical support and a well-equipped Open Access Laboratory. This is backed up by having various companies at Pivot Park that provide a wide range of essential pharma support services. These include routes to specialist finance, shared gateways to knowledge and access to outstanding scientific and entrepreneurial expertise.
As a result, Pivot Park is now the hotspot for pharmaceutical innovation in Europe. And with ambitious plans for future growth, we are well on our way to creating the dynamic and uniquely pharma-based knowledge community of our dreams.
Pivot Park is located in Oss, the spiritual home of the Netherlands’ pharmaceutical industry. Besides offering a wonderful work-life balance, being located in Oss places Pivot Park at the heart of a vibrant ecosystem of universities, educational institutes, research institutes and centres of excellence that work in similar and related fields.
Learn more at www.pivotpark.com
Supporter
HollandBio
HollandBIO: the Dutch Biotech Industry Association
HollandBIO is the Dutch biotech industry association connecting, supporting, and representing over 274 medical, agro-food, and industrial biotech companies. Our members are active in all phases of research and development and include all company sizes: start-ups, SMEs, listed companies and multinationals. Together, we strive for a society taking full advantage of the power of biotechnology in health, food and sustainability.
URL: www.hollandbio.nl
E-mail: info@hollandbio.nl
Twitter: @hollandbio