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Toxys provides innovative in vitro toxicity screening solutions to rapidly identify hazardous and potential carcinogenic properties of novel compounds during the early phases of product and drug development. Toxys exclusively offers the ToxTracker assay, a high throughput stem cell-based reporter assay for carcinogenicity hazard identification.

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OcellO provides drug discovery screening services to the biotech and pharmaceutical industry using its proprietary high throughput 3D cell culture-based screening platform. The drug discovery industry still relies on in vitro monolayer cell cultures, which are poor simulations of human tissue and are poorly predictive of drug efficacy. OcellO’s platform.

My tasks included the marketing and promotion of the Utrecht Science Park and aquisition of companies for the Park. I was the account manager for the various companies at the science park. Projects I was involved in included the new Life Sciences Incubator (which includes grant application), the roll-out of the new corporate ID of Utrecht Science Park in.

As a Liaison Officer I was responsible for the technology transfer process within the LACDR. All facets of technology transfer were included in my job such as: Contracting, opportunity scouting, marketing and licensing. I have also participated in the NGI Venture challenge, and written a granted STW valorisation grant together with teams of scientists. I.

Organizing business education for Beta students was my major task. This includes setting up courses, mentoring the group and organizing all other aspects such as material, scheduling etc. Besides this we have conducted research into the growth of the Leiden Bioscience Park. This research has led to a presentation and publication on the Triple Helix.