SoundCell is awarded the Eurostars Grant
Abstract:đ SoundCell is an innovative leader in health technology, dedicated to addressing urgent global health challenges. The Eurostars-funded Fast Graphs project marks a pivotal step in developing impactful solutions for antibiotic susceptibility testing, poised to benefit patients worldwide by offering rapid, accurate diagnostic tools for better healthcare outcomes. đ§đ đ SoundCell, Graphenea and Lambda-X High-Tech […]
đđ§Ș Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance with Innovation
Weâre thrilled to share that SoundCell has been featured in the latest article by the European Innovation Council (EIC) during World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness Week 2024! đ The article highlights the groundbreaking work of EIC beneficiaries actively combating AMR, a global health challenge that demands urgent attention. At SoundCell, weâre proud to contribute to this critical fight with […]
Visit from the Director-General of the Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO)(RVO), Abdeluheb Choho, to YES!Delft and TU Delft
We were honored to welcome the Director-General of the Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO)(RVO), Abdeluheb Choho, to YES!Delft and TU Delft last Tuesday. His visit provided an exciting opportunity to showcase some of the groundbreaking startups within our ecosystem and highlight the power of collaboration between science, industry, and government in driving global innovation. SoundCell […]
The winning pitch at the Philips Innovation Award 2024!
Excited to share that our CEO, Irek Roslon, delivered the winning pitch at the Philips Innovation Award! Check it out here on our LinkedIn page!
SoundCell wins the prestigious Philips Innovation award !
We are honored to announce that SoundCell has won the largest entrepreneur award in the Netherlands! đđđ Eight startups, divided over two competitions, competed in the finals of the Philips Innovation Award in Rotterdam on the 11th of June. In the Innovator Award, five mature startups competed for a grand prize of 50,000 euros, while in the […]
TU Delft For Life event
Yesterday, YES!Delft hosted the TU Delft “For Life” Thank you dinner. During the event, alumni Floris Achterberg, Tim Bruines, and Aleksandre Japaridze from three YES!Delft startups â Villari (wireless crack detection systems), Sensible Healthcare Systems (glucose sensors), and SoundCell (antibiotic sensitivity tests)âshared their experiences regarding their ventures, successes, challenges, and how the support from YES!Delft […]
Exciting News! đ
Thrilled to announce that SoundCell has advanced to the finals of the prestigious Philips Innovation Award! đ It’s an incredible honor to be among the 8 finalists out of 175 teams! We are humbled and happy to be among these amazing tech startups. Looking forward to the finals on June 11th! đ€
SoundCell at the TU Delft BioDay
Two weeks ago, ten years after its first edition, BioDay returned to showcase the biodiversity of TU Delft. BioDay is open to the whole TU Delft community, from students to principal investigators and from business relations to lab technicians. SoundCell was present with a stand at the BioDay among 8 startups & companies from TU […]
SoundCellâs revolutionary breakthrough to speed up infection treatment
Read a wonderful article by TU Delft Campus about our technology and our recent developments! TU Delft start-up SoundCell aims to make a revolutionary push in radically speeding up the process of finding the right antibiotics treatment for patients with bacterial infections through cutting-edge graphene membrane sensors. The company successfully collaborates with Delft hospital Reinier de Graaf: Both hospital […]
NanoLabNL voucher for SoundCell!
In March 2024, Marc Zuiddam presented Irek Roslon, CEO at SoundCell, with a NanoLabNL voucher. This voucher enables SoundCell to work in the cleanrooms of the KAVLI NanoLab and the Else Kooi Laboratory, both located in Delft. The voucher if intended for comprehensive training, expert guidance, and the use of cutting-edge equipment towards the first series production of sensors […]
SoundCell publishes its latest scientific paper online
SoundCell has published its latest data in the journal of Applied Physics Letters. In this collaborative work with the Reinier Haga Medical Diagnostics Center, the authors discuss the roadmap for using graphene technology for antibiotic susceptibility testing and present most recent data on clinical isolates. Read the full paper here.
SoundCell awarded the YES!Delft rising star award!
This award is given to startups who took part in one of the Yes!Delft Accelerator programs. These early stage startups have shown significant growth by starting their first sales, or pilots and bringing their product to market. Read more at about the awards at https://yesdelft.com/news/yesdelft-awards-2023/
Cologne-Rotterdam Executive MBA: Company Visit to YES!Delft đ
Cologne-Rotterdam EMBA Class of 2025 students started their Rotterdam trip with an inspiring visit to YES!Delft. During their visit, MBA students got to know the company better, gaining a deeper understanding of its operations and culture. Withing the program they also teamed up with SoundCell and other startups to work on business related problems as […]
SoundCell among semifinalists at the Phillips Innovation Award
The Philips Innovation Award is the largest student-entrepreneur award in The Netherlands. The Award is yearly rewarded to the most innovative start-ups with the highest potential. In this years selection SoundCell has passed to the semi-finals! Read more at https://www.phia.nl/awards.
European Innovation Council visits Delft
A delegation from the European Innovation Council (EIC) visited the TU Delft Campus on Wednesday. The visit focused on the innovation ecosystem around TU Delft and the way in which new, promising technology is brought to the market. Withing the visit the delegation also visited the YES!Delft incubator. This was followed by presentations from startups that […]
SoundCell secures âŹ2.5M European Innovation Council Transition Grant to Propel Rapid AST in Healthcare
DELFT, 14-12-2023 âSoundCell proudly announces it has been awarded the esteemed European Innovation Council Transition Grant of 2.5 million euros. This transformative funding is poised to be propel the company’s pioneering work in developing graphene devices for antimicrobial resistance tests. Under the project name “Be-FAST” (Bacterial Eavesdropping for Fast Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing), SoundCell is set […]
SoundCell successfully finishes netherlands biggest technology Accelerator Program
SoundCell graduates from Yes!Delft Accelerator Program. The team is thankful to YES!Delft for the amazing Accelerator Program ! It is an invaluable experience becoming part of netherlands biggest Tech-startup ecosystem. We learned a lot from tailored workshops, masterclasses, and 1-on-1 expert sessions on topics such as personal & team development, strategy, marketing & sales, finance & funding, […]
SOUNDCELL: EMPOWERING RAPID DIAGNOSTICS
Interview with our founders appears at the Yes!Delft column. If you are interested about diagnostics and how to build a Medical-technology startup read below.
SoundCell receives Pre-Seed Funding From Graduate Entrepreneur Fund
Graduate Entrepreneur aims to stimulate the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Netherlands by providing capital, network and hands-on support to the people who are changing the world. Graduate Fund invests in students and alumni from Rotterdam and Delft in the pre-seed and seed stage. Happy to share that SoundCell is now a Graduate Entrepreneur portfolio company! New investment and […]
Applied Nanolayers and SoundCell awarded grant to develop groundbreaking graphene based antibiotic sensitivity test
Applied Nanolayers BV (ANL) and SoundCell BV (a spin-off from Technische Universiteit Delft TUD), today announced they have received 275,000 EUR R&D funding from Provincie Zuid-Holland to develop a prototype for SoundCellâs high throughput single-cell graphene antibiotic sensitivity test. The 18-month project will optimise the antibiotic sensitivity platform, bringing it closer to market. Enhancing the […]
SoundCell receives 350,000 euros from Uniiq
We are happy to announce that our team received 350,000 euros from Uniiq- finance for future, to move from lab to clinical practice https://www.tudelftcampus.nl/tu-delft-spin-off-soundcell-ontvangt-e350-000-van-uniiq/
SoundCell Technology in the news
The Spanish newsletter El Mundo has published this great article on SoundCell’s technology (in Spanish). In the Netherlands, an interview with CEO Aleksandre Japaridze has been published in Elsevier Weekblad (in Dutch). For the English readers, Salon magazine and The Telegraph have reported on our technologies.
Interview on BNR newsradio (Dutch)
Farbod Alijani has been interviewed by BNW Newsradio. You can listen to the full podcast here, or read the summary here: “Researchers have succeeded in eavesdropping on bacteria. That is special in itself, but we may also benefit a lot from it. It all started with research into graphene – by now well known to […]
SoundCell technologies nominated Best Tech Idea 2022
The editors of EW and KIJK are organizing the election of the Best Tech Idea of 2022. This is the sixth edition of this election and you can vote until 14 September. Have you already voted for us?
Listening to bacteria with graphene drumhead
Ever wondered if bacteria make noise? If we could hear bacteria, we could know whether they are alive or not. When the bacteria are killed with the help of antibiotics, the sounds would stop – unless the bacteria are resistant to antibiotics. This is exactly what a team of researchers from TU Delft, led by […]
Probing nanomotion of single bacteria with graphene drums
Our new scientific publication is out in Nature Nanotechnology! #antibioticresistance is one of the biggest threats the global community is facing, endangering millions of lives. In our recent Nature Nanotechnology article, we introduced a new way of performing antibiotic susceptibility testing with #singlecell resolution using high throughput and massively parallelized #graphene drums, bringing down the time […]
