What a great first edition of LIFE Compliance Day last year! Together with our partners, we brought professionals together for a day full of insights, knowledge sharing, and valuable connections around compliance and MDR Article 5.5.
Looking back with pride, and already making plans for the next edition in 2026! Want to read more about the edition last year? Read the full recap of the UMCG Fast Lane Unit here!
LIFE Compliance day 2025 is co-financed by the European Union, Samenwerkingsverband Noord-Nederland (SNN), Michael Page and UMCG Fast Lane Unit.
Turning plans into results: that is the central focus of the fifth LIFE Science Conference, taking place on Tuesday, 22 September 2026 at Forum Groningen. The LIFE Cooperative will bring together professionals, entrepreneurs, researchers and policymakers from the life sciences and health sector around one key question: how do we translate vision into concrete impact? The keynote speaker will be Peter Wennink, former CEO of ASML and one of the most influential leaders in the Dutch technology sector. In 2025, he presented his advisory report ‘The Road to Future Prosperity’, in which he advocates targeted investments in innovation to strengthen the Netherlands’ long-term earning capacity.
In the North, and in Groningen in particular, there are dozens of companies working on innovations in the fields of life sciences and health. There are many hidden gems among them, says Ronald Hesse, director of the LIFE Cooperative partnership. “Millions of patients worldwide have already benefited from innovations developed here in Groningen,” he says.
Researchers at the UMCG and their spin-off CC Diagnostics, located on Campus Groningen, have developed a new test that could make cervical cancer screening more efficient and user-friendly.
