Science with Impact: Collaborate with Industry to Advance and Valorize your Research

This event is for researchers of the University of Groningen and the UMCG who are curious about how they can successfully develop their research into an innovative product in collaboration with industry.

With keynotespeakers such as Marcel Levi, President of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and Professor of Medicine at Amsterdam UMC/ University of Amsterdam and Hedderik van Rijn, Professor of Experimental Psychology and founder of MemoryLab BV, who will show how your research activities can benefit from collaboration with industry without losing sight of the academic integrity.

The programme

● 1.30 – 2 p.m.: Reception

● 2 – 2.15 p.m.: Welcome address by chair of the day Desiree Hoving, Business Generator Groningen Director Anne Been and UMCG Innovation Center Director Martin Smit.

● 2.15 – 3. p.m.: Why making an impact matters by Marcel Levi, President of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and Professor of Medicine at the UMC/ University of Amsterdam (UVA)

● 3 – 3.30 p.m.: Break

● 3.30 – 4 p.m.: From being a professor to running a business by Hedderik van Rijn, Professor of Experimental Psychology and founder of MemoryLab BV

● 4 – 4.45 p.m.: Different perspectives on valorization and working together with the industry with: Nettie Buitelaar, CEO of Biotech Booster, Peter Ketelaar, Managing Director of Life Cooperative, Wouter Nagengast, Professor of Experimental Endoscopy and Modular Diagnostics and principal investigator of the Optical Molecular Imaging Group, and Wiro Niessen, Professor of AI in Medical Imaging & Health, Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, and Board Member of the UMCG and Business Generator Groningen.

● 4.45 – 5.30 p.m.: Drinks reception