Technological solutions for sustainable healthcare - from molecule to reimbursement: Medical Delta’s mission comprises the entire innovation journey. However, on this long and challenging road several hurdles often turn out to be too high. As a consequence, promising medical innovations don’t always make it all the way to the finish line.
How come? And what can researchers and companies do themselves to increase the chances that their future innovations eventually turn into actual healthcare solutions, embraced by doctors and other professionals, healthcare institutions, policy makers and, of course, patients?
At this Medical Delta Café, we will look into these questions, together with experts and based on recognisable examples from everyday practice.
- Antoinette de Bont, professor in sociology of innovation in healthcare (Erasmus University), will present the hurdles and point out what researchers and companies can contribute themselves to eventually cross the finish line.
- Rudolf Scholte, Quantib founder/COO, will show us the hurdles of a start-up on its route from science to business. Which hurdles have they come across and what can you do to attack them?
- Jenny Dankelman, Medical Delta professor at Delft University of Technology & LUMC, and Tim Horeman (Delft University of Technology and Surge-on), both involved in projects in the Living Lab Medical Delta Instruments, will talk about the complex road from idea to prototype and the first preclinical tests.
Do you encounter similar hurdles or completely different ones? Join the discussion and let’s find out what we can do and achieve together!
PROGRAMME
15:00 Registration
15:30 Welcome by Gertine van der Vliet, managing director Medical Delta
Introduction, by moderator Esther Thole, science journalist
15:45 Presentations and practical examples
Antoinette de Bont Professor in sociology of innovation in healthcare (Erasmus University)
Rudolf Scholte Quantib founder/COO
Jenny Dankelman Medical Delta professor (Delft University of Technology & LUMC)
and involved in the Living Lab Medical Delta Instruments
Tim Horeman
Delft University of Technology and Surge-on
16:30 Panel discussion
16:50 Wrap-up
17:00 Drinks @the Café; continuation of the Venture Café Rotterdam programme
Venture Café Rotterdam
Following our discussion, we are very pleased to welcome you at the weekly Venture Café Thursday Gathering, the place to be in Rotterdam to connect start-ups, scale-ups and young talent with corporates, government and investors in order to stimulate growth. Next to meeting the Medical Delta network, you are more than welcome to join the Venture Café programme Innovation & Academics, continuing until 8PM.
Health, Well-being and Food will be the central theme in November, and therefore Medical Delta gladly co-operates with this initiative.
Medical Delta Talent Pool
We are proud to present two award-winning iGEM teams from the Medical Delta region: ADOPE from Delft University of Technology as well as Fifty Shades of Stress from Leiden University, who just came back from the iGEM 2018 Giant Jamboree in Boston. Meet them at the Café and get to know everything about their respective projects and their experiences at the Jamboree.
Also, representatives of the YOUNG Medical Delta board will be available to inform you on their recent and upcoming activities.