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Join us for Lygature LIVE 2026!
Celebrating 20 Years of Pioneering Partnerships for Patient Impact
Join us for our Lygature LIVE on Thursday 2 July 2026 (13:30-18:00) at Villa Jongerius in Utrecht! Registration is now open.
Lygature LIVE is our annual stakeholder event bringing together leaders from academia, industry, patient organisations, and policy makers to exchange insights and shape the future of health innovation.
Read the report from last year's Lygature LIVE
The event offers you a unique opportunity to learn from the real world challenges and outcomes of collaborative health partnerships. Through engaging stories from diverse domains and expertise areas, you’ll gain practical insights you can apply in your own work - while also connecting with a vibrant network of stakeholders committed to improving health, now and in the future.
Program
The program of this year’s Lygature LIVE will connect the past and future of pioneering partnerships. The first half of the meeting we will focus on how our organization and the life sciences ecosystem has evolved over the past 20 years. In the second half we will look at new opportunities in the field: strengthening ecosystems, enabling responsible innovation, and continuing to translate collaboration into meaningful results for patients.
| 13:30 | Walk-in and registration |
| 14:00 | Part 1: Looking back: Two Decades of Partnerships, Innovation, and Patient impact |
| Welcome and introduction Moderator: Hans Schikan | |
| Partnerships Driving Clinical Innovation Hans van Eenennaam - IMMIOS, STANT, Sairopa | |
| From TraIT to Health-RI: Shaping the Future of Health Data Infrastructure Gerrit Meijer - NKI, Health-RI | |
| Why the Future of Global Health Innovation Is Collaborative Julia Lischke - Lygature | |
| 20 Years of Pioneering Partnerships for Patient Impact Jorg Janssen - Lygature | |
| 15:00 | Break |
| 15:30 | Part 2: Looking forward: Tomorrow’s health. Together. |
| ImmuneHealthXL: A New Era of Collaborative Research in Immune-mediated Inflammatory Diseases Janneke Samsom - Erasmus MC | |
| DARE‑NL and the Future of ATMP Development and Collaboration Trudy Straetemans – UMCU | |
| Implementing AI in Mental Healthcare Sophie Huiskes-Berends – Lygature | |
| 16:30 | Wrap up and conclusion Hans Schikan |
| 17:00 | Drinks |
The full program including session abstracts is available on the event site.
Registration now open
Registration for Lygature LIVE 2026 is now open. We warmly invite stakeholders from across the health and life sciences community to join us for an afternoon of insight, exchange and connection.