Research and valorisation in emerging infectious diseases
Immuno Valley strives to connect animal and human health
Emerging infectious diseases such as SARS, Bluetongue or Pandemic influenza but also widespread antibiotic resistance are a serious threat to our society by having immense socio-economic consequences. ‘Immuno Valley’ has been founded in the Amsterdam-Utrecht-Flevoland region of the Netherlands, to act as the Network of Excellence in infectious diseases detection and control.
- Immuno Valley will act as a portal
- It has a wide overview of knowledge and competencies of its partners
- It will attract excellent students and post-docs
- It can lead industry to find the best partners for their R&D projects
- It will facilitate to find funding for high quality research
- It will assist new startups arising from innovative developments
- Thereby it will stimulate entrepreneurship in an academic setting