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The AstraZeneca non-profit mentorship program giving expert advice to UBI startups

31
Aug

The AstraZeneca Exchange Nordic mentorship program provides expert advice to Nordic life science startups and entrepreneurs. For Umeå Biotech Incubator (UBI) the program has proven to be an invaluable tool for the startups it coaches – offering a range of advice from market and needs analysis to more specific technical questions.
“It’s fantastic that we have the opportunity to tap into all the expertise available within AstraZeneca”, says Tobias Tovedal, a Business Coach at UBI.

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Lipigon Pharmaceuticals signs USD 91 million deal with Leaderna Therapeutics

30
Jun

Lipigon Pharmaceuticals from Umeå is celebrating the signing of a development and license agreement for its clinical-stage drug candidate Lipisense® with Leaderna Therapeutics worth an estimated USD 91 million.
“We are delighted with this agreement and look forward to working with Leaderna on the future development of Lipisense®”, says Stefan K Nilsson, CEO of Lipigon. The new agreement specifically involves the development and licensing of the drug in Greater China.

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New promising data with ColoNode for colon cancer

29
Jun

Umeå University, has in collaboration with HiloProbe AB completed the first part of a new clinical study of its ColoNode biomarker test, which provides further important evidence for the product ColoNode’s benefits and usefulness in colon cancer.
“The results look promising”, says Lina Olsson, CEO of Hiloprobe AB

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Assar Bäckman hangs up his lab coat and looks forward to retirement

15
Jun

He has been a vital part of Umeå Biotech Incubator (UBI) since its inception in 2003. But now, after 42 years of service in the biotech industry, it is time for respected research engineer Assar Bäckman to retire.
“My work has been hugely varied, and over the years I have learned a great deal. I usually have an emergency solution to most things if needed”, says Assar.

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New collaboration hopes to make the most out of moss

08
Jun

The Umeå Biotech Incubator-backed ‘Shades of Green’ project, developed by Boreal Orchards, has created a moss that can be used on buildings, infrastructure and for the regeneration of nature. Now founder Daniel Pacurar is collaborating on a new development project with RISE Processum AB and Ecohelix to maximize moss establishment with the help of by-products from the paper pulp industry.

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UBI project awarded at Mötesplats Västerbotten: “Recognition for the work we have done”

01
Jun

Umeå Biotech Incubator (UBI) has won the Regio Stars Västerbotten 2023 award for its ‘Life Science Motorn 2.0’ regional fund project in the category “A region with localized sustainable business development”.
“It feels amazing that our project is being recognized and praised”, says UBI’s outgoing CEO, Jennie Ekbeck, who was the project manager behind the ‘Life Science Motorn 2.0’.

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MedTech consultant company establishes in Umeå

26
May

Life science consulting company Orderly People has announced it will base one of its consultants in Umeå after the summer.
“There is a vibrant life science industry in Umeå which we want to be a part of”, says Orderly People’s founder and co-owner, Maria Jansson.

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HiloProbe enters strategically important partnership with Biocartis

12
May

Umeå based HiloProbe AB has entered a partnership with the major international company Biocartis Group NV. This is a strategically important step for HiloProbe in their aim to reach out globally with its colorectal cancer test-product, ColoNode®.
“We are very happy to start a collaboration and a long-term relationship with Biocartis, which strengthens our focus on colorectal cancer thanks to Biocartis’ established sales and distribution network across many countries”, Lina Olsson, CEO of HiloProbe, says.

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New international board promises to take Omnio to the next level

05
May

Umeå-based biopharmaceutical company Omnio AB, which is currently awaiting efficacy data from preclinical wound studies using recombinant plasminogen, has recently appointed an internationally experienced board of directors charged with taking the company forward.
“Our new board’s network and experience will allow us to build strategic partnerships with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, accelerate our clinical development program and ultimately bring our wound-healing candidate to market”, says Ulrika Norin, CEO of Omnio.

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UBI hosts “Life science super week” with four events in three days

27
Apr

Umeå Biotech Incubator (UBI) is ending its development project program period with the “Life science super week” between May 8th-10th 2023 – an action-packed three-day event filled with seminars, an investment day, a life science pub plus a brand new services business fair.
“Life science in Umeå is buzzing right now, so pulling together several events at the same time gives us great synergistic effects”, says Jennie Ekbeck, UBI’s CEO.

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Huge interest in emerging cancer treatment from G4 Cancer Cure

24
Apr

G4 Cancer Cure, a biotech research initiative located in Umeå in northern Sweden, has attracted considerable interest from doctors and the pharmaceutical industry for a new treatment method it is developing for triple-negative breast cancer.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer to affect women around the world, with approximately 15 percent of all cases diagnosed as triple-negative breast cancer. G4 Cancer Cure’s progress towards a treatment method is therefore being followed very closely, according to Project Manager Stefanie Sandberg.
“Our needs analysis shows there is huge interest in a new treatment method from doctors as well as pharmaceutical companies, experts and investors”, she says.

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Kunskapsportalen för Life science-bolag vässas med nytt utbildningsmaterial

30
Mar

Sjösatt, uppskattad och under ständig utveckling. Kunskapsportalen vässas nu ytterligare med nytt utbildningsmaterial för flera efterfrågade områden.
– Vi ser att det är många olika forskare, entreprenörer och start-up företag som har hittat till plattformen. Vi hoppas att det nya innehållet ökar plattformens attraktionskraft ännu mer, säger Jennie Ekbeck, ordförande för Kunskapsportalens styrgrupp.

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