NLS Careers article

Stamina, mentors, passion, and a life outside the lab. When Nordic Life Science profiled five leaders from across the region’s life science industry, from investors to a startup founder to two of its leading scientists, each shared advice for people starting out. Their answers had a lot in common.

Returning to work after a long, relaxing vacation can be challenging. Here are some tips to make the transition easier and less stressful.

Thomas Karikari’s career has taken him across three continents: from Ghana to the UK and Sweden, and then to the US. Now an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and one of Nature Index’s “rising stars in ageing research”, he is helping move Alzheimer’s blood biomarkers beyond individual markers and towards a more complete picture of disease biology.

Johnny Mogensen most recently comes from a position as Denmark’s research and innovation attaché in Boston, USA. He has held several positions in the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science and has also previously been posted to Brussels as an adviser to Denmark’s EU delegation and as a national expert to the European Commission.

BioNTech plans to align and consolidate its manufacturing network further where excess capacity is expected, due to evolving supply needs, mergers and acquisitions, BioNTech’s partners’ manufacturing capacities and completion of contracts, it states. The company plans to exit operations at the manufacturing sites in Idar-Oberstein, Marburg, and Singapore as well as CureVac’s sites, affecting up […]

As Sweden crowns its national champions in youth research, the country is grappling with a deeper challenge: how to inspire more young people to pursue science, technology, and maths at a time when PISA results reveal a steady decline in STEM competence across the Nordics.