TechTalk: Quantum – September 2025

TechTalk on Quantum in Life Sciences & Health

Join us for an inspiring afternoon at the intersection of quantum technology and real-world applications in Life Sciences & Health. This special edition of TechTalk takes place at Biopartner Leiden, home of the new quantum-tech incubator House of Quantum Leiden.

We will feature six leading experts from Leiden Bio Science Park and beyond, each delivering a short, powerful talk of 10 minutes. The sessions will explore:

• Innovations in quantum hardware, including stacks, cooling systems, and chips

• Practical applications of quantum in Life Sciences & Health

• Real-life use cases where quantum may help solve complex scientific challenges

After the talks, we’ll walk or cycle together to Biopartner 4 for an exclusive guided tour of the new House of Quantum facilities, followed by networking with drinks and bites.

Who should join?
Do you work with quantum technology? Are you curious about its capabilities? Do you have ideas for applying quantum to challenges in life sciences and health? This event is open to scientists, entrepreneurs, students, policymakers, and anyone interested in exploring the impact of quantum innovations in this sector.

Speakers (partial line-up)

Dr. Seyed Mohammad Reza Taheri – QT Sense
QT Sense is showing that quantum sensing is no longer a future promise; it’s already transforming biotech and life sciences. Their platform uses nanodiamond relaxometry, powered by NV-center magnetometry, to detect oxidative stress at the subcellular level in real time, providing unprecedented insight into disease mechanisms and mechanisms of action directly inside living cells. Seyed, CTO of QT Sense, is an experimental physicist with over a decade of experience in optical microscopy and nanostructured materials. He will discuss how quantum sensing can bridge the gap between research and clinical applications, and the collaborations needed to scale its impact.

Quantamap – Daan Boltje
QuantaMap develops cutting-edge tools for metrology and defect inspection for quantum chips and other quantum hardware.One of the major road-blocks of quantum computing, QuantaMap concluded, is that when chips do not work as well as they should (they often don’t), there is no way to find out which component failed, and how to improve the production processes. So, they build a microscope, based on IP-protected SQUID-on-tip technology, that will solve this and help enable the quantum revolution. The QuantaMap team is motivated to solve hard problems that do not have solutions yet. They create technology with major impact on the quantum industry, that will also have applications in different fields in science and emerging technology.

Limor BH Epstein – She-RAM Tech Ventures
With over 15 years of experience in life sciences and digital health, Limor BH Epstein is a health-tech entrepreneur, researcher, and investor. As founding mother of SHE-RAM Tech Ventures, she has launched ventures pioneering data-driven evidence, patient-centric precision medicine, and models for patient-owned data. At Tilburg University, her research delves into AI and medical language processing to better capture patient-reported experiences. Today, she investigates decentralized health-data models and how quantum computing can shift healthcare from reactive to personal, predictive, and proactive, empowering patients while accelerating scientific discovery.

Patrick O’Brien – Leiden Cryogenics
For 30 years, Leiden Cryogenics has been at the forefront of extreme low temperature techniques. Their CF-CS110 dilution refrigerator, which cools to less than 10 mK above absolute zero using a mixture of helium isotopes, is a crucial tool for protecting fragile quantum states from environmental noise. Each system is fully customisable with a wide range of measurement options and delivered wired and ready for experiments. Patrick will share insights into how ultra-low temperature technology underpins advances in quantum hardware.

Rick Overkleeft – Primo Medda
Primo Medda specializes in decentralized precision therapy through mobile pharmacogenetic testing and 3D-printing of medication in rural and disaster areas. Although pharmacogenetics is a first solid step in personalized medicine and precision therapy there are many more, sometimes yet unknown, variables. Rick will present Primo Medda and how they are interested in researching how quantum can play a role in researching the key variables that can help further increase the precision in precision therapy.

Programme

15:00 – Doors open at Biopartner 5
15:30 – Start programme
15:40 – 16:10 – First round of experts
16:10 – 16:30 – Break
16:30 – 17:00 – Second round of experts
17:00 – 17:15 – Walk or cycle to Biopartner 4 – House of Quantum
17:15 – 18:15 – House of Quantum tour, with drinks and bites