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Staffan Ingvarsson about "Stockholmslöftet"

Keeping distance to reduce the spread of infection during the pandemic is everyone's responsibility. Here, Staffan Ingvarsson, CEO of Stockholm Business Region, and City of Stockholm representative on our board talks about "Stockholmslöftet", an initiative that aims to inspire to take individual and joint responsibility in Covid-19 times. "Stockholmslöftet is about love and care for our city".

2020-10-28

Never waste a good crisis!

Digital business seminar live from Norra Stationsgatan, November 5, 2020. Year 2020 will go to history as a year where nothing went as planned and all conditions changed, during a very short time span. The progress of the pandemic over our planet, our countries, cities and societies and the consequences of the restrictions that follow, have also left a lasting impression in our area on Norra Stationsgatan in Hagastaden.

2020-10-26

Webinar online: The new Medical Device Regulation (MDR) - how does it affect healthtech companies?

What does the new regulatory map look like based on new rules for software classification in MDR compared to MDD? How do I best set up the plan for a reclassification - from class I to class IIa or higher? What does my company need to do right now? Watch our webinar about the new Medical Device Regulation (MDR) and how it will affect healthtech companies.

2020-10-23

Covid-19 efforts in the region: September/October update

Collaboration between universities, industry, and health care focusing on the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the disease Covid-19 continues. Here, a few examples from the region.

2020-10-22

Valneva is scaling up for production of Covid-19 vaccine

The vaccine company Valneva has a Covid-19 vaccine in the pipeline and is now increasing its production capacity at the facility in Solna, among other places. We asked Janet Hoogstraate, Chairman of the Management Board of Valneva Sweden a few questions.

2020-10-20

A window of opportunity for Cartana

The Swedish life science company Cartana, whose technology has its origin in research from Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, was recently sold to American 10x Genomics for SEK 424 million. Anders Nordström and Simon Fredriksson have both been involved in the company. We had the opportunity to ask them a few questions about the development of Swedish life science in general, and about Cartana in particular.

2020-10-13

Colibri Ventures invests in DNA technology company Moligo Technologies

At the beginning of 2020, we met Fredrik Dahl and Simon Fredriksson, partners at Colibri Ventures, to learn about their philosophy on early investments in life science companies. Now Colibri Ventures has made its first company investment - in the DNA technology company Moligo Technologies - and we had the opportunity to ask Fredrik Dahl a few questions.

2020-10-05

New report points out need for improved communication / public transportation between the universities

Press release October 1. Today, Stockholm Science City presents a survey and analysis of needs for communication / public transportation between the universities. The result shows that physical communication between the three universities Karolinska Institutet, KTH and Stockholm University needs to be strengthened to further facilitate increased collaboration between the three universities.

2020-09-30

Health data and precision medicine - different perspectives on pportunities and challenges

How can different types of health data be combined to increase understanding of our public diseases? How is gene sequencing used in Swedish health care today? What are the legal challenges when using health data for research, development and innovation? These were some of the issues discussed at a webinar on precision medicine and health data on September 10th.

2020-09-29

Webinar online: Future of Health - Healthcare is moving home

Home and self-monitoring of patients with chronic diseases is a rapidly moving field. A number of regions have begun to introduce or plan to introduce self-monitoring of for example, asthma, COPD, heart failure, high blood pressure and diabetes. Listen to a webcast panel discussion from September 15.

2020-09-25

Test Drive Healthtech - a chance to bring forgotten ideas to life

Olof Berglund is business coach at Sting, an accelerator for Swedish startups. Test Drive Healthtech is now open for applications. We got the opportunity to ask Olof a few questions about the program.

2020-09-24

New focus areas in standardization: precision medicine and traceability of medical devices

SIS offers companies, academic institutions, healthcare and other organizations to participate and develop standards that benefit the field of genomics and precision medicine as well as traceability of medical devices in healthcare.

2020-09-18

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