Valorisation News

April 2011 - Liskamp and van Delft receive NPC Valorisation Voucher 

Floris van Delft (Radboud University Nijmegen) has been awarded a Valorisation Voucher for his proposal “Clickable microarrays to profile peptide-protein and protein-protein interactions”. The aim of this project is to develop and use technology to array peptides and proteins on glass plates.

NPC project leader Rob Liskamp and Rob Ruijtenbeek received a Valorisation Voucher for their proposal “Exploitation of a novel strategy for detection of phosphatase activity on dynamic peptide microarrays: a new PamChip® proteomics product”. As part of NPC project E2.3, they recently discovered a novel and highly promising strategy for the detection of protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) activity on dynamic peptide microarrays (PamChips®). With the voucher they want to explore the extent of applicability of this unprecedented approach and to develop it into a commercial product.

June 2010 - NPC Valorisation Voucher for Per Haberkant

A fourth NPC Valorisation Voucher has been granted to Per Haberkant (Utrecht University). Haberkant is working on the development of tools and reagents that allow the large-scale study of lipid-protein interactions in a high-throughput fashion. With the Valorisation Voucher, Haberkant will develop additional tools creating a valuable tool-set to connect proteomics and lipidomics.

June 2010 - NPC Valorisation Voucher for Hans van Leeuwen

The NPC has awarded the third NPC Valorisation Voucher to Prof. Hans van Leeuwen (Erasmus MC). Prof. Van Leeuwen and his team will work on the identification and validation of novel blood-based biomarkers. They predict an increased risk of fractures due to bone loss or poor bone quality. Ultimately, this should lead to the development of a diagnostic tool to identify increased risk of fractures. This will be useful to start preventive treatment for such diseases as osteoporosis at an early stage.

January 2010 - NPC Valorisation Voucher for Bobby Florea

The NPC has recently awarded the second NPC Valorisation Voucher to Bobby Florea (Leiden University). Florea will launch a start-up company dedicated to providing organic synthesis of existing and custom compounds for Proteomics applications.

October 2009 - First NPC Valorisation Voucher granted

The NPC has granted the first NPC Valorisation Voucher to Huib Ovaa (NKI, Netherlands Cancer Institute). Ovaa is planning to start a spin-off company that will perform custom synthesis of ubiquitinated peptides.