Perseus Biomics

Company details

Company name Perseus Biomics
Company type Micro Enterprise (less than 10 employees and revenues less than 2 MEUR)
Industry sector Medical
Activity description

Perseus Biomics is a small biotechnology company focused on microbiome abundance profiling for insights into human health, enabling researchers and clinicians to carry out high-performance, time- and cost-efficient microbiome analysis in laboratories and at point-of-need.

Project information

Technology platform TP-1: Free-space photonic components and systems
Application domain Biomedical
Project scope

A feasibility study to replace the current illumination unit for the company’s fluorescence microscope with a new illumination module as the current system is expensive, has a non-uniform beam distribution, does not fit the field of view, and suffers from speckle.

ACTPHAST Partners VUB
Project leader Prof. Dr. Ir. Heidi Ottevaere (VUB)
Project start January 2022
Project duration 10 months