Biotech Business - February 15, 2022
Capitainer and Attana sign collaboration agreement
The two companies have signed an agreement with the goal of offering broader and more patient-centric blood sampling solutions for the Attana AVATM system starting with COVID-19 immune profiling. Since November 2021, Attana has been performing comparative studies of finger stick capillary blood samples simultaneously collected by both test tubes and Capitainer qDBS cards (quantitative […]
Collaboration - February 10, 2022
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Our latest issue, No 01 2022, is out – sign up for a subscription today and stay updated on the Nordic life science industry’s latest progress and challenges. This Nobel Prize Special issue includes exclusive interviews with the Laureates in Chemistry and Medicine 2021, as well as in-depth stories about the Nobel discoveries and their […]
Collaboration - February 9, 2022
International collaboration activities in clinical research receive financial support
Five proposals for activities aiming to promote Nordic clinical research cooperation related to international activities have been granted support from the Nordic Trial Alliance at NordForsk. The activities are intended to move Nordic collaboration within certain areas of clinical studies forward, strengthen knowledge transfer and have a concrete outcome that will enhance Nordic clinical research […]
Collaboration - February 7, 2022
One step closer to a joint Nordic vaccine production
The Nordic countries are looking into starting joint vaccine production facilities to be prepared for future pandemics. Last year, Sweden took the initiative for Nordic co-operation, which will map the resources of both public and private companies when it comes to the development and production of vaccines in the Nordic region. “It’s about trying to […]
Biotech Business - January 12, 2022
Affibody and Lokon Pharma initiate collaboration
Lokon Pharma has announced a collaboration with Affibody to combine oncolytic viruses with Affibody molecules. “Lokon’s oncolytic adenovirus platform encodes human immunostimulatory genes to induce anti-tumor immunity in cancer patients. We already have one virus in clinical development, LOAd703, and we are expanding our pipeline to meet the demand of different types of malignancies” says […]
Collaboration - December 22, 2021
International center for stem cell-based research established in Copenhagen
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine reNEW, will be established based on a new consortium of three institutions. The founding of the center is possible through an unprecedented grant of up to 300 million euro from the Novo Nordisk Foundation over a 10-year period. The center will be a collaboration between the […]