Exhibitors

Axon

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Axon is an IP law firm and licensing expert with a focus on food, pharma and biotech. Axon assists ag tech companies, amongst others, bringing innovative products to the market and concluding commercial and R&D driven transactions. Axon reports current food law developments at the blog FoodHealthLegal.

BioConnection

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BioConnection fulfills the needs of innovative (bio)pharmaceutical companies by offering flexible state of the art development and GMP compliant manufacturing services for sterile Drug Products and ATMPs, both clinical and commercial.

At BioConnection, we provide you with development and manufacturing capabilities to bring your product from idea to the clinics and the market. 

Using our FDA and EMA approved facilities, we will provide you with tailor-made solutions for your product. 

We can help you with small-scale clinical batches, filling in vials, syringes or any other primary pack. 

We have state of the art freeze-drying equipment as well as large-scale commercial production possibilities. 

Label and pack options are available too. We are expanding our services into advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMP); cellular based therapies like immunotherapy where we can provide you with fully validated suites for your innovative therapies. 

We can also support you if your challenge is more in the Medical Device area.

Drees & Sommer

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Do you need highly specialized buildings and plant & equipment built quickly? Do you want to restructure your laboratory activities? Is your warehousing reaching capacity? Drees & Sommer is a leading international professional services firm focusing on the property sector. We provide support to customers in the pharmaceutical, medical and biotechnology industries with new construction, expansion and redevelopment projects. The planned buildings and facilities must meet your company’s needs while at the same time satisfying the strict regulatory requirements of the Life Sciences industry. To meet this complex set of requirements, Drees & Sommer offers project management with controlling, consulting and management services; from initial analysis to completion.

Grant Thornton

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One of the big challenges for start-ups and scale-ups within the Life Sciences is getting access to necessary funding and reaching the next milestone(s). This requires constant monitoring of the cash position, seeking new financing and/or entering new partnerships. As trusted advisors, we take care of your full financial administration (outsourcing) or tax compliance. We optimize your tax position/group structure including application for WBSO-certificates, limitation of (future) fiscal loss evaporation and applications of innovation box regime. We provide auditing certificates for, amongst others,  early stage financing (RVO) and audit of the financial statements. Global mobility services provides advice on 30%-ruling applications and tax support for new staff hired from abroad. We are a network of independent assurance, tax and advisory firms, with 50,000+ people in 135 countries. And we’re here to help dynamic organizations unlock their potential  to growth. We’ve got scale, combined with local market understanding. This means we’re everywhere you are, as well as where you want to be. Our Grant Thornton Leiden office is situated right next to the Leiden Bio Science park. We have a unique network within this park and have a deep understanding of the various issues you are facing. We can help you from the initial start-up phase till the moment that VCs invest or an exit like a sale or IPO takes place. We look forward to meeting you.

For more information, please contact  

Walter Verra
E: walter.verra@nl.gt.com 
T: 088-6769357

or

Pieter Visser
E: Pieter.Visser@nl.gt.com
T: 088-6769520)

HAN University of applied Sciences

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Academy of Applied Biosciences and Chemistry

The biotech industry, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and research institutions are constantly in need of professionals who combine research and project management knowledge and skills. Are you a technician or Bachelor in the field of life sciences with a firm foundation in practical research? Do you strive for more academic and professional responsibility? The Academy of Applied Biosciences and Chemistry is the home for a large number of post-graduate courses and trainings. You can realize your dream at HAN. We support you optimally to combine work and study. So that you will soon be completely "future-proof".

Health~Holland

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Health~Holland is the brand name and communication channel of the Top Sector Life Sciences & Health. The Top Sector is designated by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and is selected on the ability to contribute substantially to global societal challenges.

The Top Sector LSH covers a broad range of disciplines, from pharmaceuticals to medtech and from healthcare infrastructure to vaccination. To realise its mission – vital functioning citizens in a healthy economy - the Top Sector builds on the strengths of the Dutch Life Sciences & Health sector to address the biggest societal challenges in prevention, cure and care: improving health while restraining the costs of healthcare.

The Top Sector LSH initiates and stimulates interdisciplinary research and development in public- private partnerships (PPP) to valorise innovation. By attracting funding, sharing best practices, the connective role and communicating as one voice through Health~Holland, the Top Sector is boosting a productive infrastructure. Thereby investing in Top Sector’s mission: vital functioning citizens in a healthy economy.

Kropman

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Kuijpers

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Leiden Bio Science Park

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With around 106 dedicated medical life sciences companies and institutions, the largest number of bioscience start-ups in the Netherlands and several multinationals and internationally acclaimed research institutes, the Leiden Bio Science Park is an excellent environment for your science and business to flourish!

Pivot Park

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Discover Europe’s foremost biopharmaceutical campus: Pivot Park

Pivot Park was founded in 2012 to provide the optimal European location for innovative pharmaceutical companies. Today, this advanced science campus helps early-phase entrepreneurs, fast-growth scale-ups and mature global leaders take their next steps in their ambition to improve global health care.

As home to 600 people working at over 60 companies, we make sure they have what they need to succeed. The park combines lab and office spaces with high-quality R&D facilities, two GMP-certified pilot plants, an Ultra-High-Throughput Screening Centre, on-site analytical support and a well-equipped Open Access Laboratory. This is backed up by having various companies at Pivot Park that provide a wide range of essential pharma support services. These include routes to specialist finance, shared gateways to knowledge and access to outstanding scientific and entrepreneurial expertise.

As a result, Pivot Park is now the hotspot for pharmaceutical innovation in Europe. And with ambitious plans for future growth, we are well on our way to creating the dynamic and uniquely pharma-based knowledge community of our dreams.

Pivot Park is located in Oss, the spiritual home of the Netherlands’ pharmaceutical industry. Besides offering a wonderful work-life balance, being located in Oss places Pivot Park at the heart of a vibrant ecosystem of universities, educational institutes, research institutes and centres of excellence that work in similar and related fields.

Learn more at www.pivotpark.com

Progress PME

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Progress-PME your independent partner for project management and consultancy in life science, (bio)pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare industries.

Progress-PME provides project management, interim management and consultancy services in the field of:

Pharmaceutical and Bioprocess Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality Control, Chemistry Manufacturing and Controls (CMC), Technology Transfer, Regulatory Affairs, Validation, Lean Six Sigma / Operational Excellence and Quality Management (GxP, QA, QP).

Progress-PME holds a leading position in fast and effective support and has an excellent track record of ensuring customers reach their goals. Our wide knowledge and broad experience guarantee high value projects, and our services are characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach, flexibility, added value and persistence. Continuously training, motivating, inspiring and challenging our employees is therefore a high priority for us.

Progress EXS

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Progress-Executive Services (EXS) understands your challenges with license-to-operate and time-to-market needs. We support you by offering excellent solutions for sustainable and successful growth of your pharmaceutical business. Progress-EXS is aware of the need for expertise support at senior management level within life science and pharmaceutical industries. Progress-EXS has an extensive network of seasoned senior executives available for temporary C-suite assignments.

How can we support you? We can identify and offer the perfect candidate for your current need, making sure that the right candidate with the right level of expertise and profile fits your culture.

Moreover, Progress-EXS offers excellent Quick Scan methodology to identify on fast, reliable and effective manner time-to-market and license-to-operate. Not only we are experts in concise reporting to your C-suite level, we also supply fast track action plans with the possibility to support you during the execution.

Our experience allows us to bridge your senior management and work-floor level, understanding the operational challenges and issues, while at the same time being able to zoom out seeing the overall picture. Our approach is pragmatic and transparent and we strive to constantly deliver high quality services.

PWC

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PwC – Pharma & Life Sciences profile
Across the whole Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences value chain, PwC's trusted professional advisors use their wealth of industry based experience, knowledge and expertise to help our clients evaluate their strategic business options, improve management and control, and identify cost saving initiatives.

At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We're a network of firms in 157 countries with more than 208,000 people. At PwC in the Netherlands over 4,400 people work together. We're committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. Please visit us at www.pwc.nl

Working closely with our clients, ranging from small entrepreneurial life science companies to large global corporations, we aim to achieve increased performance by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of a company’s key business operations.

In the Netherlands we have a broad sectorteam of dedicated professionals, focussing on our various regions. This includes both the industry but also knowledge institutions (such as universities in Amsterdam, Leiden, Utrecht, Eindhoven and Maastricht) and innovative businessparks (such as Amsterdam Biomed, Leiden Bioscience, Utrecht Sciencepark, Pivotpark Oss and Healthcampus Maastricht). Through this local dedication and focus, we have a proven track record of connecting the industry in a proactice way.  
Please read more about how our Pharma & Life Sciences team can help you: www.pwc.nl/pharma 

Quality by Design

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By bringing our consultants and their expertise together with our life sciences clients in the best possible way, we help our them to develop safe therapies and technologies for patients and consumers. We do this worldwide, with over 185 people who are highly qualified in QA, validation, regulatory affairs and project management in the pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, medical devices and cosmetics industries. To this end, we have set up offices in Belgium (HQ), the Netherlands, France, Spain, Mexico and Colombia.