Surfix Diagnostics

Surfix Announces Nadieh Kuijpers as Chief Commercial Officer We are delighted to welcome Nadieh Kuijpers to our team as the new Chief Commercial Officer. Nadieh brings extensive market knowledge and commercial expertise from the Life Sciences industry, which will be invaluable as we continue to grow our business in the coming years. Read the full announcement on the company news page: https://lnkd.in/eArxCH3F hashtag #photonics #diagnostics #POCT #immunoassays

Although the Dutch weather is not very exciting this summer, at least we have exciting news to share, week after week! A couple of weeks ago we had our annual day out with lots of sportive action. Then last week we had the great news to share that we are working in a Health~Holland project together with the Netherlands Cancer Institute Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and CRCbioscreen B.V. And this week we celebrate the 2500th Surfix Diagnostics follower! A warm welcome and thank you to the gentleman who works in integrated photonics down under at InPAC in Melbourne, Australia. And all other followers we have gathered in the past years. Great to have you on board. And great you show interest in what we do. Wonder what is in store for us next week..........

It is with pride and pleasure that we can announce to jointly work with The Netherlands Cancer Institute and CRCbioscreen B.V. in a Health-Holland supported project called PHOBICCS on validation of biomarkers for colorectal cancer screening.   Colorectal cancer is a devastating disease and it is great that we can show the power of our photonic diagnostics platform with the intention to make a life-saving difference. Please follow this link to read the press release: https://lnkd.in/eP8xr93z

HAPPY, HEALTHY AND HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TEAM! At Surfix Diagnostics, we truly care about our individual team members, besides we consider the happiness and well-being of our team as essential to our success.. Therefore, one of our company Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is to foster a happy, healthy, and highly effective team. OKRs are a powerful tool for setting goals and communicating what we aim to achieve and the milestones needed to get there. Below two examples of our OKRs in action: EMPLOYEE SATISFATION SURVEY Recently, we conducted our first company-wide Employee Satisfaction Survey. This involved ranking 85 statements to gauge team satisfaction across various aspects: Job Tasks, Work Environment, Colleagues, Management, Values, Personal Development, and Benefits. We shared the findings with the team last week, revealing that we are in great shape. Notably, the statement "I am proud to tell others that I work here" achieved an excellent Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 8.1, surpassing our goal of 8. This survey was the first step in assessing our team's happiness and health. In a subsequent workshop, divided into four groups, the team reviewed lower-scoring elements and developed recommendations for the Management Team to improve these areas. These recommendations were then shared with the entire team. Team members nominated colleagues who made the most valuable contributions to the discussions. The selected colleagues, Tamara Labeur, Roel Maas, Anke Kristin Schütz-Trilling, and Hester van Dorst, were asked to form the first Surfix Employee Representative Council (ERC). Although Surfix, with approximately 30 employees, is too small for an official Works Council (in Dutch: ondernemingsraad), we value every team member's voice and believe the ERC will significantly contribute to our success. ANNUAL TEAM EVENT Last week, Roel Maas and Sabine Rutten did a great job by organizing our annual Team Event, which included an overnight stay at the ‘Kasteelboerderij’ Gunhof in Swolgen. The event featured a BBQ, board game evening, and a day of fun and sporty activities in Nijmegen. We also visited the MuZieum, a fascinating museum where we experienced what it's like to be blind or partially sighted. This annual Team Event has become a cherished tradition, exemplifying our OKRs in action and highlighting why Surfix Diagnostics is a great place to work. #greatcompanytoworkfor #surfixdiagnosticsteamrocks  

The last couple of years we at Surfix Diagnostics have worked on a project outside the human medical work we now concentrate on. It was a European Horizon 2020 project called PhotoSens in which a number of great companies (TunaTech GmbH, PHIX Photonics Assembly, CSEM, LRE Medical GmbH and of course we) participated. Prof. Dr. Chris Bridges, CCO of TunaTech wrote an article about it in Hatchery Int'l. Below you can find a picture of the article. As it is rather small and not really readable, you can find the article via the news page on our website as well! Enjoy reading about this interesting work. And as usual: if you want to know more about it, please drop us a line!

Next week Surfix Diagnostics will be exhibiting at the annual European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) Congress in Rotterdam. On Monday Jos Lunenberg will be there, on Tuesday Luc Scheres and on Wednesday Sandor Snoeijers. And you can find Johannes Dijk there every day. Come see us (booth number 7) and hear about the exciting things we are doing with our #photonic #diagnostics platform. And how our work could be of value to your work in the fields of early cancer detection, screening and monitoring of cancer, biomarker discovery, liquid biopsy etc. etc.

Wondering what we are up to at the moment? Come see one of our colleagues present at the EACR 2024 Congress in Rotterdam in a couple of weeks. Our booth is number 7 and you can find either Jos Lunenberg, Luc Scheres, Sandor Snoeijers or Johannes Dijk there to have a chat with about our multi-modal point-of-care solution with lab precision!

Surfix is expanding! We are seeking an experienced part-time Office Manager to enhance the organization, professionalism, and coordination of administrative duties and office procedures, with a special emphasis on Human Resource Management. Check out the job ad and feel free to apply if you wish to join our great company!

We did it! After a lot of hard work we received our ISO certification! As you may know getting certified is not a small job. You have to do a lot to finally get the pdf in your inbox. Great achievement of the whole team of Surfix Diagnostics during the entire process, but a special thank you goes to our QA/RA Officer Hannah Tetteh, PhD!

The Wageningen UR Campus Run took place last night. And of course the sportiest colleagues from Surfix Diagnostics were there! Besides 500 other runners! A beautiful shirt was made that gave them wings! I won't bore you with the running times of our runners, but good and fast times were run on both the 2.5 km run and the 5 km run. We assume that we are the fastest company in Wageningen...