Projects with impact
Innovation
Innovation projects
In pursuit of adding more healthy years to people’s lives, HTRIC works on various projects with partners in the Northern Netherlands. Below is an overview of the health technology and innovation projects we are currently working on.
AccelMed North
AccelMed North builds MedTech Business in the Northern Netherlands by organising sustainable, effective, objective and accessible connections between idea owners and high-quality regional knowledge and expertise to make good MedTech ideas investable.
Developing medical technology
Living Lab Newborn
Providing real-life testing environment
Move2Innovate
Move2Innovate is a testing ground where companies can test and validate their new products at the intersection of health and exercise. This initiative helps accelerate the innovation processes and strengthen new products with medically validated data.
Building replacements and improvements for the human body
Northern Netherlands AI hub
The Northern Netherlands AI hub focuses on developing artificial intelligence applications for healthcare and other sectors. It fits in with existing ecosystems in the northern Netherlands and initiates cross-sector AI projects, driven by the needs of businesses in various sectors.
Designing artifical intelligence applications
Open Diagnostics
The Open Diagnostics Ecosystem is an initiative by LIFE Cooperative that will turn the Northern Netherlands into a global expert in the development of diagnostics. Open Diagnostics gives access to knowledge, a strong network, and research & development facilities within the diagnostics ecosystem.
Developing diagnostics
dHealth
dHealth develops and markets digital healthcare innovations by means of consultancy, software and lab facilities. dHealth makes the crossover between ICT and healthcare and breaks down barriers between entrepreneurs and the healthcare market.
Creating digital healthcare innovations
Professors Anna Salvati and Amalia Dolga receive Parkinsonfonds Grant
Groningen, September 30, 2025 – Professors Anna Salvati (GRIP) and Amalia Dolga have been awarded EUR 450,000 from the ParkinsonFonds for research on how environmental pollutants influence brain cells in Parkinson’s disease.
Using human stem cell models, they will study how air pollution may accelerate disease progression by impacting the brain’s immune system, especially in genetically susceptible individuals. Their findings could pave the way for more personalized treatments targeting both genetic and environmental risk factors.
Developing medical technology
Dr. Michael M. Lerch awarded €1.5 million ERC Starting Grant for “TactoChem” project
Groningen, September 10, 2025 – Dr. Michael M. Lerch of the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry (University of Groningen) has secured a highly competitive ERC Starting Grant for his project TactoChem – Touch Detection Through Autocatalytic Transmission of Mechano-Chemical Signals. Over the next five years, Lerch and his team will develop novel chemical mechanosensors to imbue soft robotic systems with a real sense of touch.
Developing medical technology
Andrea
Sterkenburg
Innovations
Questions about our innovation projects?
Please contact Andrea Sterkenburg
- Andrea@htric.nl
