ACS researchers Onno Holleboom, Jeffrey Kroon and Aart Nederveen have been awarded a TKI-PPP grant between € 300.000 and € 750.000 to perform a research project in collaboration with an industrial party. The funding is provided by the NL government (Ministry of Economic Affairs) through the Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO) and the Topconsortium voor Kennis en Innovatie Life Sciences & Health (TKI-LSH, a.k.a. Health-Holland).

The Amsterdam UMC TKI grants for PPP projects are available to all Amsterdam UMC researchers and aims to them to perform more research projects in collaboration with companies in Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). Approximately 8.5 million euros is available for the best PPP-research proposals. This round, 50 applications were submitted, 17 proposals could be awarded, of which three proposals submitted by ACS researchers Onno Holleboom, Jeffrey Kroon and Aart Nederveen.

dr. A.G. (Onno) Holleboom, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC
SYNCH: Combining SYNbiotics with Conditioned FMT – tapping into the potential of the gut microbiome to treat non-alcoholic steatoHepatitis
Subsidy of € 436.080

dr. Jeffrey Kroon, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC
3D-IRI: A novel 3D dual-cell perfusion model as tool to identify  and validate potential druggable targets to reduce Ischemia Reperfusion Injury (3D-IRI)
Subsidy of € 339.570

prof. dr. ir. Aart J. Nederveen, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC
MARVY: Gamechanger: Development of MRI based endovasculAR procedures for Vascular surgerY
Subsidy of € 748.040

Source: IXA