75 million for research schools

Gothenburg University, Karolinska Institutet, Linköping University and Umeå University have received SEK 75 million from the Research Council. The money will be used to build five national clinical research schools. The research schools will receive 15

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.

A crash course in IP strategy

"Publish, publish, publish!" Sound familiar? So to meet the researcher's wishes, do you scribble a patent application with lipstick on a napkin and send it in? At the seminar Patent Strategies in the Biotech Company, you will have the chance to find out why this might not be the best idea.

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.

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!

Cate Poulsen, Qiagen

Why are you going to Scanlab and Biotech Forum?

375 miljoner till cancerforskare

Cancerfonden ger Ruth Palmer pengar för forskning på signalöverföring och ett av de största anslagen går till forskning om genexpression. Även projekt inom bland annat farmakologi, cellsignalering och strålning får tillskott.

Urvattnat sjukvårdsförslag i USA

Många proteiner förändras av en mutation

Mutationer i en gen som kan orsaka ALS leder även till förändringar i en mängd andra proteiner.

Poppis med doktorshatt

Allt fler väljer att doktorera efter grundutbildningen visar en rapport från Högskoleverket och SCB.

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.

Cellavision mot Japan

Bolaget får sin första order via det japanska dotterbolaget i Yokohama.

Läkemedelsjätte skänker bort 800 patent

Fler forskare ska få chans att utveckla läkemedel mot bortglömda sjukdomar. Nu hoppas bolaget att andra företag ska följa exemplet och öppna portföljerna.

Konkurrensen tätnar bland de kyvettlösa spektrofotometrarna

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments lanserar en spektrofotometer där man med en eller två mikroliter enkelt kan mäta DNA-halten i ett prov.

Snart finns ett läkemedel mot alkoholism

Lundbeck köper rättigheter till ytterligare marknader för en substans, som just nu testas kliniskt i fas III på patienter som är beroende av alkohol.

In-vivo bilder av små djur med ny plattform

The Pearl Imager är ett nytt bildåtergivningssystem från Li-Cor Biosciences, speciellt utvecklat för att titta på små djur.

Nytt gäng som satsar på öl

Danisco flyttar sin bryggeri och dryckesenzymverksamhet, som också får en ny ledning. Även en bryggerienhet i Shanghai kommer att få ny chef.

Faster sales but less profits for Probi

The probiotic company increases its turnover, and the net results are twice as large as last year.

Go ahead for leg wound study

Tripep starts a phase II-study of their wound healing joint venture project.

Success fee to Bioinvent and partner

The cancer collaboration started last year. After successful technology transfer the two partner companies now receives 5 million euro from pharma giant Roche.

Lundbeck divests companies

The company sells all shares in one listed company plus divests four small private equity funds, for a three-figured million sum.

Grant for development projects in Gothenburg

Seven research projects receive SEK 1 million to promote commercialization of early drug development and medical technology.

New CEO to Promedvi

Sigrun Axelsson has taken on the leadership of the Lund-based medtech company.