Diagnostics for personalized medicine

Per Matsson from Phadia anticipates changes in the standards for health care. Accordiing to him, expensive new drugs will create a market for more extensive diagnostics.

BMAs: Run your own business

After graduation you must decide: be an employee or start your own business. This is not really the situation for BMAs today, but a collaborative project between Swedish public actors and some companies aims to change that and make entrepreneurs of BMAs.

Hey Kurt Berndt...

... who is starting up a research center for youths in Saltsjöbaden.

Hey Klementina Österberg ...

... CEO at GU Holding, which awards SEK 120, 000 to three female entrepreneurs.

Many rotor options for refrigerated microcentrifuge

The new 5430 R from Eppendorf is a refrigerated microcentrifuge with several different rotors.

Datorn förutsäger hur vi reagerar på läkemedel

En nyutkommen avhandling från Uppsala universitet beskriver hur datorbaserade in silico-metoder kan användas för att förutsäga interaktioner mellan läkemedelsmolekyler och farmakologiskt viktiga transportproteiner.

300 miljoner tar Karolinska Development till börsen

Karolinska Development genomför en nyemission på 300 miljoner som vänder sig till både existerande och nya utländska investerare. Målet är en ägarspridning inför en börsintroduktion som kan ske redan till våren.

Indunstare utan avfrostningsbehov

EZ-2 är en serie avfrostningsfria indunstare från Genevac.

Viktigt steg framåt för europeisk forskning

70 miljoner till småföretag

Albiero, Moberg Derma och Vitrolife är några av dem som får stöd inom årets andra utlysning inom Vinnovas program Forska och väx. Totalt får 64 projekt vara med och dela på kakan.

Finding your way at the fairs

For details on exhibitors, booths, seminars and the fair map we have gathered the important sites for you.

Skola i folkhälsovetenskap får ny ledare

Anders Foldspang efterträder Göran Bondjers som rektor för Nordiska skolan i folkhälsovetenskap i Göteborg. Han har tidigare bland annat varit president för Association of Schools of Public Health in the European region, ASPHER.

How to get the most out of the fair

Einar Pontén, Managing Director, Merck Sequant

Why are you going to Scanlab+Biotech Forum?

From planning stage to handshake

"Partnering is an effective tool to get in touch with the decision makers high up in an organization's administration," says Camilla Huse Bondeson at Conlega. And according to her, rigorous planning is the way to succeed.

Annika Garnås, LAB

Why are you going to Scanlab+Biotech Forum?

Gabor Fischer, Distribution Sales Manager Europe, Ismatec

Why are you going to Scanlab+Biotech Forum?

Age essential when testing drugs

Anders Rane has been arguing that genes and age are both important factors in understanding how medicines affect individuals. Only last year, the EU established regulations stating that pharmaceuticals must be tested for children as well as for adults.

Young, bright and committed to labtech

Ghazal Voghoui recently bought her first apartment and finally settled in Stockholm again. Last year, she finished her law studies and she is relieved to be back after living in Geneva for four years. On November 10 she will take a big career leap, becoming the new CEO of Swedish Labtech.

Life science in Stockholm

Sweden has the fourth-largest biotech market in Europe. More than half of its biotechnology enterprise, some 460 companies, is located in the Stockholm region.

USB recycler for liquid chromatography

The Smartsaver recycler from Biotech AB is designed to recycle the uncontaminated mobile phase in isocratic liquid chromatography.

Medicon Valley cluster in brief

The Medicon Valley covers the Öresund region (Skåne and Sjaelland).

Multiple rotor options in refrigerated microcentrifuge

The new 5430 R from Eppendorf is a refrigerated microcentrifuge with several different rotors.

Diagnostics to deal with new diseases

Maria Brytting at the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, SMI, will share her experiences from April 2009 when the new influenza A virus, H1N1, was first reported globally.