About
SensUs

SensUs aims to raise awareness about the possibilities that biosensing can offer to the life of patients and to health care in general. To spread this awareness on a worldwide scale, SensUs enables everybody from all over the world to view and experience the SensUs Contest.

Our community consists out of healthcare providers, patients, students, alumni, industry, and key stakeholders. We bring this community together in many different ways; the stakeholders meet each other during the SensUs Innovation Days.

An important aim in healthcare is to keep people healthy as long as possible and to enable people in need of care to live a high-quality life in their own environments. Healthcare is developing toward a world wherein care is delivered in a highly personalized manner, attuned to the status of the patient, based on actual, precise, and reliable data. This is where biosensors play a big role.

We focus on open innovation, where teams share their experience and technologies with each other. All the Teams consist of talents with different backgrounds from all over the world. They think differently about world problems and how they can be solved. Every Team is linked towards a research group, which each got its own expertise. By giving the Teams the freedom to choose and develop their own measuring techniques, the SensUs Competition results in a large range of new innovative technologies.

The Teams

During the SensUs Competition the teams can win four awards: 

The Analytical Performance award goes to the Team with the biosensor that functions best, in terms of measurement accuracy, speed, and required sample volume.

The Innovation award relates to the technological novelty of the biosensors and to the way how the Teams have worked during their development process. 

The Translation Potential award is about the plans of the Teams to bring their bio-sensor from a prototype to a product that can be used in society. Will the product meet the needs of doctors and patients, and will it be suited for industrial production?

The Public Inspiration award gives recognition to the Teams that best inspire the public. The award is based on the votes from the public, who see the presentations, pitches, and demonstrations of the teams.

During the SensUs Innovation Days, we have different activities our stakeholders can participate in:

• The Event, where the students present their prototype biosensor to the world;
• Meet The Partners, where students and companies are brought together through an interactive program;
• The partner network moment, where professionals in the field of biosensing are brought together;

The activities encourage a closely connected community to establish a future in sensors for health through collaboration and open innovation.