Uncategorized - March 9, 2020
3 Coronavirus projects at Karolinska Institutet selected in EU funding round
Three coronavirus projects coordinated by researchers at Karolinska Institutet have moved onto the grant negotiation phase in a bid for 9 million euros (95 million kronor) in EU funding. The projects aim to find a vaccine, immunotherapies and neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and are being coordinated by KI’s Matti Sällberg, Qiang Pan Hammarström and Benjamin […]
Uncategorized - March 5, 2020
A new platform for cancer diagnostics and drug testing
Parts of tumor tissue, which is normally discarded in cancer surgery, bear information about the disease, and studies at the University of Gothenburg show that this has been unexploited. This finding has now formed the basis for a new experimental platform for cancer diagnostics, prognoses and testing cancer drugs. The study published by the research […]
Profiles in MedTech - March 1, 2020
Erik Gatenholm
Growing up in an academic environment with parents who are scientists and engineers, Erik Gatenholm saw how transformative scientific discoveries could be and wondered how much more good they could do if only more people knew about them.
Uncategorized - February 28, 2020
Swedish researchers show that gut hormone can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease
A new epidemiological study from Lund University and Skåne University Hospital in Sweden shows that there is a connection between high levels of the gastrointestinal hormone GIP in the blood, and an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. The intestinal hormones GIP and GLP-1 are important for insulin production in the pancreas, they form in the […]
Financing - February 27, 2020
AlgoDx raises 6 million SEK
AlgoDx, which focuses on supporting disease detection and prediction with machine learning algorithms, has closed a 6 million SEK seed round led by Nascent Invest with participation from angel investors Fredrik Sjödin and Tomas Mora-Morrison, co-founder of Cambio Healthcare Systems. AlgoDx’s first product, ExPRESS, has been developed to autonomously predict sepsis in hospitalized patients using […]
Financing - February 19, 2020
15 million SEK invested in MediTuner
15 million SEK has been invested in MediTuners’s digital asthma-app. Almi Invest is investing 3 million SEK in MediTuner and its app AsthmaTuner, developed together with Karolinska Institutet. The app is connected to a spirometry and provides asthma patients with an automatic treatment recommendation. In this emission consisting of 15 million SEK a number of […]
