Umeå company Spinchem wins a multi-million deal with the listed Canadian company SNC-Lavalin. Spinchem will supply a so-called Rotating Bed Reactor that will be used to clean process water from the nuclear power industry.
– This is an incredible deal for us. It gives us the opportunity to further develop our product, says Emil Byström, CEO of Spinchem.
Umeå-based life science company Inficure Bio has appointed Lena Söderström, who was previously in charge at stock exchange listed company Senzime, as its new chairman of the board of directors.
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Two representatives of the UBI company Mucocort have published an article in the Stockholm Intellectual Property Law Review on one of the most interesting research discoveries the recent decades – the discovery of CRISPR/Cas9, which can result in a Nobel Prize.
A new report has busted many of the myths surrounding super entrepreneurs, claiming they do not generally have higher IQs than the average person and are not necessarily driven by revenge following a troubled childhood.
The report, compiled by the Stockholm-based Sting incubator together with Umeå Biotech Incubator and researchers from Karolinska Institutet also discovered several important abilities that characterise successful entrepreneurs.
Swedish life science company Omnio has received millions in funding from the Swelife innovation programme to help develop a cure for tooth loss.
“Thanks to these funds from Swelife we can now move forward even faster”, says Omnio’s CEO Patric Stafshede.
Former Olympic biathlete Anders Mannelqvist has been appointed the new CEO of Pro Test Diagnostics, a Life Science company that has developed a unique test kit for blood doping.
Life science industry figurehead Pernilla Abrahamsson has left her position as Product Development Manager at stock market listed Senzime to become Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Lipum, located at the Umeå Biotech Incubator.
Together with Innovation Plus, we arranged a seminar on product development April 25th, going from prototype to large-scale manufacturing and clinical trials for pharmaceuticals, medical technology and diagnostics.
Umeå-based life science company Inficure Bio has just won the largest contract in its history.
“It feels incredible! The more large customers we get the greater our credibility becomes. This agreement is a real feather in our cap”, says Sofia Mayans, CEO of Inficure Bio.
Umeå life science company Lipum will participate in one of the world’s largest congresses for rheumatic diseases this June.
“The elite of our industry gathers at this congress once a year and competition is incredibly intense. It’s important to be seen there”, says Einar Pontén, CEO of Lipum.
Umeå-based Lipum, which is developing a biological drug for the treatment of chronic inflammation, has attracted SEK 25 million in new investment to help boost the company’s growth.
How is it that so much happens in life science in Umeå? And why does Umeå Biotech Incubator call itself a rebel? UBI:s CEO Jennie Ekbeck answer this and more questions in an interview in Nordic Life science insight.
Life science company Inficure Bio has been awarded millions by Vinnova to support the company’s development of a model that will help create new treatments for fibrosis.
“This money is incredibly important to us. Thanks to this investment we can now finish developing a new product”, says Sofia Mayans, CEO of Inficure Bio.
Small and medium-sized life science companies operating in the Västerbotten county in Sweden will double in numbers over the next ten years, while a vibrant scientific community will add to the growth. These are the goals set by Umeå Biotech Incubator (UBI), which is now entering a new development phase of its incubator operation in Umeå.
BioEurope Spring in Vienna with 2 486 delegates, ranging from International investors to major companies. Our business coach Helén is in Vienna representing UBI and life science in northern Sweden.
For the eleventh year in a row Umeå Biotech Incubator hosted the Biotech Umeå Investment Day (BUID) (last Thursday) at Stockholm’s Grand Hôtel, when investors from Sweden and abroad got the opportunity to meet 12 companies from Västerbotten.
UBI:s kommunikationsansvariga, Carolina Hawranek, kommer under våren lämna sin postition för att istället att forska på heltid. Vi frågar lite om hennes tid på här UBI och om flytten till Umeå.
Researchers from Quretech Bio AB (Quretech Bio) in Umeå, who were awarded a research grant of approximately SEK 25 million in the summer, have been awarded additional funding of just over SEK 17 million this autumn (made up of SEK 7.5 million from the Swedish Research Council, SEK 8 million from the Erling Persson Family Foundation and SEK 2.1 million from Umeå University).
Recently, Uman Diagnostics received national attention after making it onto the list of “Sweden’s Super Companies 2018”. Niklas Norgren explains how an idea in the lab at Umeå University grew into a company and a success story.