Want to shape the future of healthy ageing? 

Ageing populations, diagnostic gaps, rising healthcare costs: we face big challenges that need sustainable solutions. As a leading hub in healthy ageing, TopDutch provides you with the infrastructure, talent and big data you need to innovate. From MedTech to early diagnostics and bioanalysis, your health solution will thrive in the TopDutch ecosystem of leading research institutes, hospitals, and life science pioneers. 

Healthcare innovators who chose TopDutch 

Healthcare innovation is harder than it should be

How do you expand your MedTech or digital health solution without access to dedicated facilities? Can you accelerate R&D with scarce talent and fragmented clinical data? And regarding production, do you have the infrastructure to manufacture locally and sustainably? For innovation to thrive, you need to be in the right ecosystem. 


TopDutch pushes your health solutions forward

1.

Prevent, diagnose and treat diseases

Tap into Lifelines: a biobank tracking the health of 167,000 people to expand research on healthy ageing and chronic disease prevention.

How could Lifelines transform your R&D?

2.

Draw from healthy ageing expertise

Join a network of 170+ businesses and knowledge centers advancing eHealth, biomedical tech, and pharma.

Meet our healthy ageing cluster

3.

Join the BioAnalysis capital of Europe

Leverage the largest bioanalytical capacity in Europe, with 100 LC-MS machines and a growing network of research institutes and industry leaders.

4.

Expand nuclear medicine research

Collaborate with the University Medical Center Groningen, one of the world's most established nuclear medicine institutes.

Discover the UMCG's expertise

5.

Boost early innovation

Accelerate your MedTech or pharma idea with support from Life Cooperative and PharmaNL and programs such as VentureLab North and Start-Up in Residence.

Meet the Life Cooperative

6.

Use big data for better health tech

Learn from DASH: a central hub for health data science, connecting experts in AI, machine learning, and eHealth.

How our cluster is accelerating the healthy ageing transition with data science

The TopDutch region is where Regenity found the place to grow

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“We searched through the Netherlands, and Groningen was the best place for us. We can grow here.”

Bart-Jan Korteling

VP of Research and Product Development at Regenity

TopDutch cross-sector expertise for healthy ageing 

Green Chemistry

Access polymer innovations for drug delivery systems, MedTech, and custom polymer manufacturing read more

Digital Innovation

Tap into large-scale data collection studies and connect with data science experts from industry and academia read more

High Tech

Bring life-changing devices to market faster as part of our strong MedTech clusters, such as the lens technology cluster read more

Life Sciences & Medical Talent

Partner with world-class knowledge institutes such as UMCG and recruit internationalized health and medical professionals read more


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