Mingling do's and don'ts

Linkedin, Facebook, MSN and Gmail are all perfect tools for the urban businessman or woman to keep track of and stay up-to-date with contacts. "But in the end, networking is about meeting and talking to people face-to-face," says mingling expert Mia Forsgren at Begriplig.

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.

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.

Dry blood DNA storage on a matrix

Qiagen recently presented a method of dry blood sample storage as an alternative to storage in freezers.

Annika Garnås, LAB

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USB recycler for liquid chromatography

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

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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.

Hey Johannes Hedman...

... graduate of SKL and LTH, who has improved a method of forensic analysis

Per Norstedt, Regional Manager, AH Diagnostics

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Cate Poulsen, Qiagen

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Martin Willner, Manager Lab, Nordic Service Manager, Mettler-Toledo AB

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Reidar Rasmussen, Labmodul

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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.

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.

With their hands on the legal levers

It is wonderful news for the Scandinavian scientific community. At the end of May it stood clear that Lund will host to the European Spallation Source.

The winner of the race

She learned how to work hard at an early age and her devotion has certainly paid off. Whether it is field running or running a company, the key to success is focus according to Yvonne Mårtensson.

Nya verktyg hittar bakterier och virus

-Genom att prestera snabba och korrekta resultat omdefinierar vi synen på diagnostik inom infektionssjukdomar, säger företagets vd Jaakko Pellosniemi.

Chalmers söker strategiska pengar

Åtta ansökningar har lämnats in för att få ta del av regeringens miljardsatsning på strategiskt viktig forskning. Dessutom utökas samarbetet med andra lärosäten.

Högriskbarn ska skyddas mot diabetes

Vaccinet GAD kan hejda den sjukdomsprocess som leder till typ 1-diabetes. För första gången i Sverige ska nu vaccinet testas på barn. 50 barn ska delta i studien.

Storsatsning på ren luft

Vårdrelaterade infektioner gör att efterfrågan stiger på teknik för ren luft. Toul Meditech expanderar starkt och nyanställer tre produktspecialister.

MVAs vice vd på plats

Nu har Charlotte Ahlgren, ny vice vd för Medicon Valley Alliance tillträtt sin post.

Dags att söka statligt stöd

Utlysningen av 20 av regeringens strategiska forskningsområden har öppnat. Totalt finns 2 660 miljoner att ansöka om.