Life Cooperative

Impact through real cooperation

SMEs determine the course of the Healthy Ageing theme. LifeScience and Medical Technology SMEs unite to increase the innovativeness of the Northern Netherlands. The Healthy Ageing Business Cooperative has been active since January...More information

Shared vision on Biomarkers

Biomarker Bay, BBay, is a Biomarker service consortium offering one portal for the full range of Biomarker assays, biomarker confirmation & assay development, assay validation, clinical validation and bioanalysis of biomarkers. BBay...More information

Lobbying together

Increased strength In order to influence policy makers of regional governments and institutes, Life Science and Medical Technology SMEs in the Northern part of the Netherlands are uniting in the Healthy Ageing Business Cooperative.

Organising together

Increased efficiency The cooperative develops solutions to meet shared challenges. Collective training, combined purchasing of laboratory equipment and materials, and shared visits to international fairs and congresses are some of the current examples of efficiency measures.

Developing together

Increased innovation Together, the cooperative SMEs developed research-, development- and supply-chains that result in efficient innovations, i.e. in the field biomarker validation, biomaterial development and 3D imaging and printing.

Latest news

Lode Holding: initiator, participant and part of the Campus Trail

Monday 3 September 2018

The second edition of the Campus Trail will take place on the Zernike Campus on Thursday 6 September. Johannes Wolters, director of Lode Holding, was one of the initiators of this running event of...Continue reading

A goldmine in Groningen: business in biobanking

Tuesday 28 August 2018

On September 13 and 14, an event on the use of biobanks an population data studies by startups, small and medium-sized in the healthy ageing field is hosted in Hotel Het Prinsenhof in...Continue reading