Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (LSH ) works together with public and private parties within the Dutch cabinet’s Mission-driven Top Sectors and Innovation Policy. The coalition does this on the basis of the Health & Care missions, formulated by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, the central mission entails five more years of healthy living and reducing socioeconomic health differences by 30%. To achieve these missions, Top Sector LSH is active in different research areas, such as medical technology, biopharma and health care. By funding multidisciplinary public-private partnerships (PPPs) that contribute to the missions, the Top Sector aims to facilitate innovation. Here we give an overview of a number of funded R&D projects by Top Sector LSH. The page is updated continuously.
Central Mission: +5, -30 Doing much more against health inequalities
Mission III: Participating with a disease or disability
Fundamental
(Bio)pharma
The usage of bispecific antibodies is a new strategy to combat cancer. The bispecific antibodies, BiTEs in this project, bring the immune cell and the tumor cell together, which leads to an activation of the immune cell. The idea behind this is that the activated immune cell will kill the tumor cell. This technique is already used for hematologic cancer. In this project we will test how BiTE therapy can also be used for solid tumors