An experienced researcher and investment professional, Jean-Jacques Degroof has worked with organizations like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and the MIT Industrial Performance Center. Since 2010, Jean-Jacques Degroof has been venture investor and University lecturer in Europe. Among his charitable activities, he served on the advisory board of Stiftung Charité's Entrepreneurship Summit in 2013 and 2014.
Affiliated with the teaching hospital Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin and its partner organizations, Stiftung Charité is dedicated to identifying and funding innovative research projects in the healthcare industry. Since 2010, the organization has awarded more than $16 million to fund over 100 projects, ranging from conferences to validation periods, when the project moves from research to clinical application. In addition to its major annual event, the Charité Entrepreneurship Summit, and its funding efforts, Stiftung Charité also sponsors two awards, the Private Excellence Initiative Johanna Quandt Award and the Max Rubner Award. - Private Excellence Initiative Johanna Quandt Award. Since its inception in 2014, the Private Excellence Initiative Johanna Quandt Award has been given to support translational health research at the Berlin Institute of Health, as well as its partner programs at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Although it is strongly linked to traditional research funding, the award is also flexible enough to serve as a sponsor for new, innovative research methods. Open to both students and established professionals, the award emphasizes individual fellowships, investment funding, and supplementary support for research projects. - Max Rubner Award. With an annual allotment of $100,000 to divide between winning research projects, the Max Rubner Award was created to fund lasting solutions to issues that impact society at large. Open only to people already involved with Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the award not only recognizes and funds its recipients, it also provides a mechanism why which the awarding body may evaluate their success upon completion.
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