GIMOES story – RUG Ventures

Reading the region everyone suddenly needs to understand: how a Faculty of Arts idea became the leading centre for Central and Eastern European studies in the Netherlands

Meet the founder Most academic knowledge stays inside the university. Hans van Koningsbrugge, professor at the University of Groningen, spent his career deciding it should not. He is the driving force behind the Groninger Instituut voor Midden- en Oost-Europese Studies (GIMOES), the institute that brings research on Central and Eastern Europe to students, businesses, government […]

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Balto story – RUG Ventures

From adherence to guidance: how Balto is building the digital layer between healthcare visits

Meet the founders Balto started with a problem both founders, Guido de Rooij and Koert van Ittersum, had seen up close. People around them struggled to take medication as prescribed: a dose forgotten, side effects appearing days after treatment had started, a change in medication leading to someone unknowingly taking the wrong dose. Surely, they

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Sencilia story – RUG Ventures

From the lab to the ward: how Sencilia is making infusions safer for the smallest patients

Meet the founder Some researchers publish their discovery and move on to the next paper. Amar Kamat wanted his work to reach actual patients. About five years ago he founded Sencilia, a medtech and deep-tech company building non-invasive sensors that make infusion therapy safer. The Rely-V® sensors clamp onto an infusion tube and measure how

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SG Papertronics story – RUG Ventures

Building a partnership: how RUG Ventures helped SG Papertronics get off the ground

Meet the founder Asked what would have been different for SG Papertronics without RUG Ventures, CEO Maciej Grajewski doesn’t soften his answer: it wouldn’t have happened. Maciej came to Groningen for a PhD in the University’s Pharmaceutical Analysis group, recruited off the back of an internship abroad. What drew him to Science in the first

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MemoryLab story – a quick sit-down with prof. dr. Hedderik van Rijn

MemoryLab: a quick sit-down with prof. dr. Hedderik van Rijn

Meet the founder prof. dr. Hedderik van Rijn Groningen, 10-12-2024 What if we could pinpoint the exact moment you’re about to forget something—and reinforce it to make it stick? What if learning wasn’t just accurate, but efficient, personalized, and transformative? This is no longer a vision of the future. Combining decades of cognitive research with

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