KFUM, through its international associations, the YMCA and YWCA, is part of the world's largest and oldest youth and women's rights movement. The organisation is active in 130 countries worldwide and reaches around 70 million people annually through its activities. This year, they celebrate 180 years in the world and 140 years in Stockholm. 

MedTechLabs is an interdisciplinary center that contributes to increasing patients' survival and improving their quality of life and other medical challenges in healthcare. The focus is on cancer, stroke, and other major public diseases.

The combination of businesses, research, housing, meeting places, restaurants, and services makes Hagastaden a vibrant innovation district. When it is fully developed, the area will have nearly 50,000 workplaces and 6,000 new homes. Now, there is a chance to establish an office with a lab in the building Life City, in the center of Hagastaden.

During the spring, Karolinska Institutet (KI) and Karolinska University Hospital started collaborating with AstraZeneca and Elekta. The walking distance within Hagastaden facilitates collaboration.

How can innovation district stay relevant? What are the challenges? Travis McCready, JLL, one of the speakers at the summit Navigating the Future of Innovation Districts tries to answer these questions.

AstraZeneca, Karolinska Institutet, and Karolinska University Hospital have entered a strategic tripartite collaboration aiming to give patients in Sweden faster access to tailored prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. Emelie Antoni tells more.

The theme for The Future of Life Science 2024 was Creeping crises connected to our health and how the life science sector can help manage these crises. We will continuously publish interviews with some of the participants. Magnus Björsne at AstraZeneca BioVenture Hub was one of the speakers at the symposium.