NLS Biotech News

Despite being the co-founder of Ilya Pharma and co-director at the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Dr. Mia Phillipson, considers herself a scientist foremost, not an entrepreneur.

The previous founder and CEO of BioLamina has gone back to business development, and with his newly founded company he aims to redefine cell therapy development even further.

Being a scientist or an entrepreneur is hard enough. Doing both at the same time sounds like an Olympic sport.

It is International Women’s Day and and we like to highlight some of the many inspiring women in life science we have had the opportunity to meet and interview. An academic and an entrepreneur, Dr. Sara Mangsbo, PhD, has found a way to integrate her skills and interests so that they complement and augment her […]

What began as a project for Evelina Vågesjö’s doctoral thesis grew into groundbreaking drug candidates and delivery methods, followed not long afterwards, by a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. Fascinated by the workings of the human body, Evelina Vågesjö, born and raised in Småland, Sweden, began researching a way to help the body heal hard-to-heal wounds as […]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US has produced more than its share of engineers and computer scientists, but unlike many of his peers, alumnus Dr. Robert Langer, ScD, turned his chemical engineering skills to medicine, becoming one of the world’s leaders in perfecting effective drug delivery systems.

An academic and an entrepreneur, Dr. Sara Mangsbo, PhD, has found a way to integrate her skills and interests so that they complement and augment her passions. The Chief Innovation Officer at Ultimovacs, an Oslo based cancer vaccine company with an office in Uppsala, Mangsbo is also an Associate Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University. Her […]

She has been called the Danish biotech queen and she is not afraid of responsibility in her role as CEO. On the contrary, Britt Meelby Jensen enjoys leading, setting ambitious goals and accelerating company growth.

For young scientists and engineers, a startup can be part of early training and education. Andreas Laustsen and Hans Genee sit in a light-filled atrium at Copenhagen’s Symbion incubator space, home of synthetic biology company Biosyntia, and reminisce. “We did bicycle together to work often,” Laustsen says to Genee. “You don’t remember because you’re faster.” […]

Academia and business don’t always mix, but Agnete B. Fredriksen of Norway has found the formula. While doing research for her doctorate degrees at the University of Oslo, Fredriksen and co-workers invented a technology to create vaccines that help the body’s immune system fight cancer and other diseases. She co-founded the company Vaccibody in 2007, […]