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| e- newsletter Life Sciences Limburg nr. 8 March 2008 |
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Dear %title% %first_name% %last_name%
This will be your last LSL e-newsletter:
WHY?
LifeSciences Limburg (LIOF), Human Health Program (BOM) and Care Pro (Syntens) have joined forces which resulted in ONE new networking association for South-East Netherlands, with more activities, more support and greater networking possibilities. Curious?................. watch your mailbox for the introduction of LifetecZONe !
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Rabobank’s Herman Wijffels Innovation Award
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Do you have an outstanding idea or have you come up with innovative solutions for current issues that both generate real benefits for society and are also commercially appealing? Then register before April 1 for the prestigious Rabobank Herman Wijffels Innovation Award2008. Rabobank instituted this award in 2002 as a means for promoting innovative and sustainable enterprise in the Netherlands. The award incorporates four prizes.(the first prize being € 50.000,- !) These cash awards enable the recipients to realize or further develop their award-winning innovations. Read more | |
LIOF Innovation day, May 22
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Thirty years of innovation support by LIOF
Innovation & LIOF are synonymous: since the beginning of the eighties LIOF has supported hundreds of SME’s with their innovative projects. Directly with their own funds and projects, and indirectly by means of provincial, national and European governmental funds. For the future LIOF is determined to continue supporting innovation in industrial companies and facilitators in Limburg. And this future offers great opportunities for innovation to SME’s: so participate in LIOF’s Innovation Day on May 22 and find out what these opportunities are! Read more (in Dutch) | |
BIOMEDICA2008 Medical Technology Session
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Medical technology might well be the session at Biomedica2008 that proves to be the most important session to the mayority of our members: The subjects that are being presented might provide opportunities for your company to get familiar with: § textile engineering for medical applications §Electrical stimulation § state of the art artificial organs §trends in artificial hearts. For more information & registration visit www.biomedica2008.com | |
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| Upcoming Events |
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Ministers to visit BIOMEDICA2008
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The uniqueness of our cross-border life sciences conference BIOMEDICA has attracted the attention of the Ministers of Economic Affairs and Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands, Ministers Maria van der Hoeven and Ronald Plasterk. On April 17 they will sign a Letter of Intent during the conference, concerning cross-border cooperation in the field of science and research, technology and innovation with NordRhine-Westfalia and Flanders.
They have invited their colleagues from our neighbouring countries: Ministers Pinkwart and Thoben from NRW, and Minister Ceysens from Flanders.
At Biomedica these ministers will also visit the exhibition floor to see companies and research institutes which have developed new technologies and new products through cross-border cooperations.
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Liege Image Days
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The University of Liège (ULg) and its high-tech partner companies active in the field of digital imaging are organizing the first of a series of compact international conferences referred to as “Liège Image Days”. This first conference will be devoted to Medical Imaging and will be held in Liège, Belgium, on March 12-13, 2008, in conjunction with the 8th ImagéSanté Festival (Image&Health Festival). read more | |
| News on our members |
Pharmacell: Registered Tissue Establishment.
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On December 11th, 2007 PharmaCell received news from the Dutch Health Care Authorities that it is now recognised as Registered Tissue Establishment.
PharmaCell's CEO Maurice Horsten: " This licence is a recognition for the high standards our team has set and maintained and enables PharmaCell to further broaden it's scope of operations in the field of human cell & tissue culturing and human cell line development." Read more | |
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LSL welcomes new members:
- Microbiome Ltd.
- Virtual Proteins
- CONUSBAT
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General News |
ACIST Medical Systems receives Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award
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ACIST Medical Systems, the innovator and market leader in variable-rate contrast injection systems for cardiac and vascular angiography, is pleased to be the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award.
According to Frost and Sullivan, “ACIST Medical Systems’ ability to provide innovative, variable-rate contrast injection solutions for cardiovascular angiography applications has endeared the company to its customers. ACIST offers flexible system configurations to meet the specific needs of the customer, lab workflow and patient. read more | |
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With this newsletter Life Sciences Limburg will keep all it's members & relations updated of the latest activities of our association. Furthermore, we will give you a preview of news items, interesting articles etc. that can also be found on our website. Do you have press releases or interesting events that you would like to share with other companies, than remember that as a member or sponsor of Life Sciences Limburg our forum is your forum! Please contact us on jherzberg@lifescienceslimburg.nl
or call Josee Herzberg at 043-3280280. To unsubscribe, please click %unsubscribe% here.
Sincerely, Dr. Fred Bollen, Chair of Life Science Limburg |
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