NLS Profiles in Biotech

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.