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Erik van der Toorn

Erik van der Toorn

Co-Founder & CEO of Hologenomix, a TU Delft spin-off developing cell-free nucleic acid diagnostics for disease detection

Jul 7, 2026

14:07
So what's your name, and what's your company about?
14:10
So my name is Erik van der Toorn, and I'm co-founder and CEO of HoloGenomics, where we are working on, on making it possible to do urine-based liquid biopsies.
14:19
Liquid biopsies is a new way of making sure that someone has, uh, like diagnosing or, um, like monitoring a cancer.
14:29
And this is actually, uh, b- doing this purely based on urine is super hard to do because it's very dilute there.
14:35
And with our technology, we actually make it possible to concentrate all that urine into exactly the molecule you need to then perform a test.
14:57
[laughs]
14:58
Uh, because [laughs] while tomorrow is a very ni- nice day, Hel- uh, I will not be attending Hello Tomorrow.
15:03
I am purely here for this lovely e- event where there's already a lot of networking going on, and I believe that, um, like, I will m- meet a lot of the people that I think are very relevant to me already here.

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