⁠Free Bee Interviewed by 4TU magazine about science, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

Freek Beekman founded MIlabs the Dutch company MILabs in 2016 . MIlabs was acquired by the Japanese company Rigaku in August 2022.  According to 4TU Magazine concerns one of the biggest successes for an academic start-up in the Netherlands in recent years.

In 15 years, MILabs has grown from being a spin-off to a frontrunner in the development of the latest generation of imaging equipment for oncology research, among other things. The company has the first scanning device to its name that can perform both SPECT and PET scans simultaneously and with a high degree of image sharpness. MILabs is also behind the ‘all-in-one scanner’ for biomedical research, or a multimodal system that enables fully integrated high-quality X-ray CT, PET, SPECT and optical tomography.

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