Dutch government supports public-private partnership in biomedical materials co-initiated by DSM

The Dutch government announced Tuesday (18 September) that it will provide funding of EUR 45 million to the BioMedical Materials program (BMM) which has been initiated by DSM and the University of Maastricht. BMM is a public-private partnership in the Netherlands that focuses on research and development in the field of biomedical materials. The program has a provisional budget of EUR 90 million and will run for five years.

BMM’s mission is to further strengthen the Netherlands’ world-leading position in the field of biomedical materials by developing successful medical applications, obtaining intellectual property rights and publishing scientific papers. Besides DSM and the University of Maastricht, leading players in the consortium include Philips Research, Organon, Medtronic, FUJIFILM Life Science, Pharming, TNO (Dutch Organization for Applied Scientific Research) and most of the leading universities and university medical centers in the Netherlands.

Source: DSM Press Release, 18 September 2007