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About Medical Delta
Mission
To realize breakthroughs in medical sciences and healthcare, to develop novel technologies and to fuel related economic opportunities.
Medical Delta goals
Medical Delta aims to create a regional 'campus' in which:
- Scientists collaborate to revolutionize medical technology and develop novel research infrastructure
- Scientific breakthroughs become business opportunities, by connecting academic institutions to industrial partners, initiating spin-off companies and attracting industries to the region
- New generations of medical technology professionals are trained.
The Medical Delta initiative is based on the synergy of the universities of Leiden, Rotterdam, and Delft. Located within a radius of 14 km, the partners have major collaborations based on their complementary expertise:
- Joint educational programmes (Biomedical Engineering, Life Science & Technology, Bioinformatics, the Holland Programme on Entrepreneurship)
- Joint research schools (active in research areas such as Interdisciplinary Physics and Biotechnology)
- Public-private programmes in which academic partners team up with industrial partners to achieve scientific as well as commercial goals
- Joint infrastructure (such as the Netherlands Centre for Electron Nanoscopy (NeCEN), and the Holland Particle Therapy Centre (HollandPTC)).
Medical Delta + Europe
Medical Delta has joined forces with Europe's top regions in healthcare technology to address Europe's greatest health challenges of the 21st century: an ageing population and the sustainability of the healthcare sytem. The HealthTIES consortium consists of the regions Medical Delta, Oxford and Thames Valley, Canton of Zurich, Catalonia and the mentoring Debrecen region. With the support of a grant from the Regions of Knowledge funding programme of the European Commission, the consortium will:
- Boost the Healthcare Technology Innovation Cycle
- Stimulate joint science, education and state-of-the-art infrastructure in major disease areas.
