Netherlands Funding Awarded Tender

NWOs domain of Applied and Engineering Sciences awards funding to six projects within the Open Technology Programme OTP and five projects within the Venture Challenge. The Open Technology Programme is continuously open for applications for application-oriented technical-scientific research from all disciplines. The Venture Challenge helps starting entrepreneurs in the life sciences sector to bring their service or product to the market.Grants Open Technology ProgrammeIn August six research projects received funding within the Open Technology Programme OTP of NWO Domain AES. The projects awarded funding are diverse and include research into sea bed dynamics sickle cell disease and organic LEDs.The Open Technology Programme is open to excellent research aimed at the possible implementation of the results. The programme offers companies and other organisations an easily accessible way of becoming involved in scientific research that leads to usable knowledge.These are the six awarded projects in order of project numberMechanical metamaterials for compact motion systems MECOMOS - dr. ir. M. Tichem TU Delft 18940 Identifying novel compounds for reactivation of fetal hemoglobin expression - prof. dr. J.N.J. Philipsen ErasmusMC 18947 MELODY Modeling Lower Shoreface Seabed Dynamics for a Climate-Proof Coast - dr. ir. J.J. van der Werf University of Twente 18949 Multi-Scale Assessment of Liquid Metal Embrittlement at Steel-Zinc Interfaces MUSCLES - dr. F. Maresca University of Groningen 18972 Suppressing Exciton Quenching in OLEDs an Integrated Approach SEQUOIA - prof. dr. P.A. Bobbert Eindhoven University of Technology 18975 New hardware and imagingspectroscopic techniques for improved low-field magnetic resonance - prof. dr. A.G. Webb Leiden University Medical Center 18981Grants Venture ChallengeFive new teams of academic life sciences start-ups have been selected for the autumn round of the Venture Challenge which kicks off with the first bootcamp on 22 September. In a programme of approximately ten weeks they will receive professional support in setting up a company and develop their idea from a scientific invention into a solid business case. This way the time-to-market can be shortened.These are the five selected teams in alphabetical orderArdus - dr. ir. T.L.A. van den Heuvel Radboud UMC Bridging the Cap with StrokePointer Accurate Stroke Triage in the Ambulance - dr. W.V. Potters MSc Amsterdam UMC Enhanced cytosurfaces encytos - dr. A. Susarrey Arce University of Twente Monoceros Analytics - dr. K. Matula Radboud University Purecyte - dr. S. Sukas Eindhoven University of Technology