VTT in brief

VTT is a broad science cluster with research within applied materials, chemical and biochemical processes, energy, industrial systems management, information and communication technologies, microtechnology and electronics.

Oslo Cancer Cluster

Cancer is, of course, the focus for this Oslo-based cluster, which is solely dedicated to cancer treatment and diagnostics. Oslo cancer cluster is also a part of Medcoast, a Swedish and Norwegian cluster.

New partnering platform

EBD Group's Partnering One is the new partnering platform for Biotech Forum 2009.

Stockholm-Uppsala life science cluster in brief

Stockholm-Uppsala evolves around the research at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University. Typical areas of research are protein research, neuroscience and cancer.

New type of stem cell discovered

The earlier view of the scientific community was that melanocytes, the pigment cells, derive from the spinal cord during the early fetal period and then move over on to the skin.

75 million for research schools

million each over five years.

Enjoy Stockholm - the capital of Scandinavia

Welcome to Stockholm! Built on 14 islands, you are never far from the water in the capital of Sweden. Stockholm offers a wide range of museums, theaters, and attractions. Whatever your interest might be: history, art, music or design, you can find it here!

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.

Mest pengar till bioteknik och läkemedel

Företagens satsningar på forskning och utveckling, FoU, fortsätter att öka trots den ekonomiska krisen. Life science-sektorn är det område som attraherar mest FoU-investeringar globalt sett visar EU-kommissionens årliga industrirapport.

Viktigt steg framåt för europeisk forskning

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.

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.

Dry blood DNA storage on a matrix

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

Medicon Valley cluster in brief

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

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.

Cate Poulsen, Qiagen

Why are you going to Scanlab and Biotech Forum?

Young, bright and committed to labtech

, becoming the new CEO of Swedish Labtech.

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.

Mer pengar till forskningssamarbete

EU manar till gemensamt Alzheimersprojekt

EU-parlamentet har antagit en resolution om ett gemensamt forskningsprogram kring neurodegenerativa sjukdomar inom medlemsländerna. Ledamöterna vill bland annat se storskaliga kliniska och epidemiologiska studier på området.

Ny professor startskott för LiU-satsning

May Griffith är ny professor i regenerativ medicin på Linköpings universitet och hennes kompetens blir startskottet för universitetets satsning på området.

Tikomed får särläkemedelsstatus

ansökningar inför kommersialisering och 10 års marknadsexklusivitet inom EU.

180 miljoner till nanoforskning

En stor satsning från det europeiska programmet Euro Nano Med ska finansiera två svenska nanoforskningsprojekt. Chalmers tekniska högskola, Linköpings universitet, Umeå universitet och Vironova får vara med och dela på pengarna.

820 miljoner till medicinsk forskning

359 projekt inom området för medicin får pengar från Vetenskapsrådet i år. I snitt kammar varje projekt hem 670 000 kronor i årets runda.