Region

BioPartner Center Maastricht is located at the centre of the ELAt tri-national life sciences cluster. ELAt is a cross-border network which links the knowledge regions Eindhoven, Leuven and Aachen with one another, forming a European technological top region. ELAt aims at promoting a knowledge economy via cross-border and interregional cooperation and is of the Europe’s fastest growing region’s with:

Life Science core competences in the field of: biotechnology, cardiovascular research, neurosciences and biomaterials
Seven universities and three university hospitals within a radius of 50 km
Superb conditions for European marketing & sales offices with related logistics
Excellent opportunities for contract research and clinical trials
17,000 life sciences students
More than 300 medical technology and biotechnology including international players such as Medtronic, Grünenthal, Philips, DSM, Eurogentec and Dyax
130 public and private research institutes and groups in life sciences
30 technology centres, from incubators to business innovation centres and university science parks or business accommodations with clean room facilities
Internationally minded staff and a large expat population