sentences:  Its work focused on the nematode "C. elegans" as a model system, which functions as a model for human diseases, but also as a model for the kind of nematodes that are agricultural pests.The company raised 37 million Euro in its first three years, first from the GIMV and Abingworth investment companies at its launch, then from the IWT, then from another round of private investors including ING, KBC, Life Science Partners, Sofindex, Rendex and Mercator, then from Polytechnos and Capricorn.The received several subsequent grants from IWT.