Research and valorization in emerging infectious diseases
Immuno Valley connects 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