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We are happy to welcome Sjaak and Paul who joined Lygature at the start of 2021! You can meet them below and find out more about their background, expertise and new responsibilities within the Lygature team. 

To take AI development in pathology to the next level, a European consortium combining leading European research centres, hospitals as well as major pharmaceutical industries, is going to develop a repository for the sharing of pathology data. The 6-year, €70 million project called BIGPICTURE, will herald a new era in pathology.

On 30 January 2021, communities around the world will rally together to observe the second annual World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Day. As an organization with projects focused on making a meaningful contribution to Global Health and NTD research, Lygature is proud to show its support.

Join us on March 4th 2021.

We are currently accepting applications for the starting position of Program Manager (32-40 hrs p/week).

Season’s greetings from Lygature, and a healthy, happy and successful 2021!

To ensure the eradication of malaria, medicines need to be developed that kill parasites in all stages of life. This includes targeting the sexual stage (gametocytes) where parasites can re-infect mosquitoes and transmit the disease.

The Medicines for Malaria Venture – Product Development Partnership (MMV-PDP) is a key project under Lygature’s Global Health portfolio.

Dr James Duffy is a Director of Drug Discovery at the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), a not-for-profit product development partnership (PDP) working to reduce the burden of malaria by discovering, developing and delivering new, effective and affordable antimalarial drugs.

Just eight months after enrolling its 500th patient, the MOMENTUM study team has now announced that yet another milestone has been achieved, with the 1000th patient recruited this past November.

With almost a third of all votes, the Personal Health Train has won the Computable Award for Health Care 2020, the most important ICT award in the Netherlands.

We are currently accepting applications for the starting position of Project Controller (32-40 hrs p/week).

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic engulfing the world we are now faced with unprecedented challenges not only as a society but in the research community as well.

Learn from every cancer patient treated with magnetic resonance guided radiation therapy. That is the primary goal of the MOMENTUM study – a cross-Atlantic, multi-partner collaboration coordinated by Lygature and the University Medical Centre (UMC) Utrecht.

The following news stories are dedicated to showcasing the variety of activities our Lygature colleagues are involved in and the value they bring to the projects we provide partnership management services for. They share what excites them the most about working at Lygature, what they find challenging and how they adapted to the new working conditions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.