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Vinnova has assessed the quality of SmiLe’s operations and portfolio of startups and found it to be at the highest level in the call for “Support to startups through excellent incubators.” As a result of this decision, SmiLe Incubator in Lund will receive SEK 5 million per year for two years, as well as additional […]

Novo Nordisk leads the international, public-private research consortium ‘SOPHIA’ (Stratification of Obese Phenotypes to Optimize Future Obesity Therapy), which was launched with the aim of improving risk assessment of comorbidities and treatment for people with obesity. Twenty-nine leading international partners from civil society, academia and industry have joined forces to better understand obesity and optimize […]

Pascale Cossart, Sven Hagströmer, and Thomas Sakmar will have their doctorates formally conferred at Stockholm City Hall on 13 November 2020. An honorary doctorate can be awarded to researchers who have contributed to science, humanity, or Karolinska Institutet. It can also be awarded to individuals who lack the official requirements of a PhD but have […]

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the University of North Carolina have mapped out the cell types behind various brain disorders and their findings offer a roadmap for the development of new therapies The findings are published in Nature Genetics and one interesting finding was that cells from the gut’s nervous system are involved in Parkinson’s […]

Sara Mangsbo, Associate Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University, has been appointed one of Sweden’s ten most innovative entrepreneurs 2020 by the Swedish Incubators & Science Parks (SISP) and ÅForsk. Mangsbo will receive the ÅForsk’s entrepreneur Scholarship of 200 000 SEK to further develop her research project, Immune Gas Pedal (IMMGAP), a platform that can help […]

Three Norwegian health innovation clusters will collaborate on forming a concept for the first Norwegian Health Catapult Centre, with the aim to support innovative SMEs. Siva, a governmental enterprise facilitating a national infrastructure for innovation, has selected Oslo Cancer Cluster Incubator, Norway Health Tech and Norwegian Smart Care Cluster to proceed to the next round […]