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MVA Update is an electronic newsletter providing you with news about MVA and an overview of our events and other relevant events in Medicon Valley. You can also check out our calendar for more information about life science events in the region.
If you have any questions regarding our news section or media inquiries then please contact David Munis Zepernick, Head of Press on +45 2498 1668.
MVA Annual Summit 2024 – we need more innovative hospitals, we have a strong Medicon Valley pipeline and we are already the European life science region with the highest number of CDMO facilities
There were plenty of take home messages from this year´s successful MVA Annual Summit last Monday at Clarion Hotel Copenhagen Airport, where +200 regional, national and international life science stakeholders, key opinion leaders and decision makers were gathered for an intensive day of presentations, discussions and networking. Key findings from the recently published State of Medicon Valley analysis were presented and discussed as illustrated by the recently published article in Life Science...
MVA Annual Summit keynote speaker and world-leading hospital and healthcare innovation expert, Dr. Fabrice Brunet, from Canada interviewed by Swedish MedTech Magazine
If you want to be the best, you must learn from the best! This is essentially why we have invited Fabrice Brunet, CEO of QIS Health Innovation District i Montreal to share his vision and experience as one of the world-leading experts when it comes to hospital and healthcare innovation and how to build the healthcare system of the future. As a little appetizer for the 2024 MVA Annual Summit, we are happy to present to you the recently published interview (in Swedish) "Innovation expert brings...
“CDMO’s is a key component of the Medicon Valley success story” – opinion piece by MVA CEO in Danish business media “Finans”
Life science in Denmark and the Danish-Swedish Medicon Valley cluster is much more than Novo Nordisk, although their contribution can hardly be overestimated. A sometimes somewhat overlooked element is the contribution from CDMO’s (Contract Development Manufacturing Organisations), which has been growing substantially over the recent years. As highlighted in the upcoming State of Medicon Valley Analysis produced by Citeline and presented at the Medicon Valley Alliance Annual Summit 11th of...
Cross-border regional collaboration should be included in the national Swedish and Danish life science strategies
....is the English translation of the headline of the article published today in the "Life Science Business review" distributed with Danish daily Berlingske and Danish daily Børsen featuring an interview with MVA chairman of the Board of Directors, Niels Abel Bonde and MVA CEO Anette Steenberg. Read full the article (in Danish) on the link above and register for the upcoming Medicon Valley Alliance Annual Summit 11th of November to learn more about the the unique strengths of the bi-national...
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation grants SEK 61 million to Lund University based research projects
Out of a total of SEK 835 million granted to 30 Swedish research projects across various disciplines by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, SEK 61 million has been granted to two specific life Lund University based research projects within the field of life science. MVA would like to congratulate Lund University and the principal investigators Professor Filipe Pereira and Docent Joan Yuan with their new research grants. Project: “Neoantigen discovery with cellular reprogramming” Grant:...
Swedish Ambassor Hans Wallmark very well-received indeed by MVA Executive Club
Newly appointed Swedish Ambassador to Denmark, H.E. Hans Wallmark, was invited as keynote for the MVA Executive Club Meeting Monday night a Clarion Hotel Copenhagen Airport, and although he is formally "abroad" representing Stockholm in Copenhagen, he also made it quite clear that coming from Skåne he had in some ways also come home. As he explicitly pointed out, his wife living with him at the residence in Copenhagen, who crosses the Øresund Bridge to go to work at (MVA-member) Malmoe...
New Danish health care reform can be a barrier for access to Interreg funding of life science innovation
The recently tabled proposal for a new Danish health care reform has many promising elements. However, the idea to let the municipalities take over the responsibility as regards attracting EU/Interreg funding for Danish life science innovation is bad for business and innovation, as MVA CEO Anette Steenberg highlights in her latest piece in Danish "Dagens Medicin"
LINXS Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science invites new Themes
LINXS (a university Centre hosted at Lund University working to promote science and education focusing on use of neutrons and x-rays in research and development, and help educate potential users of ESS, MAX IV and other major research infrastructures to enable ground-breaking research) invites proposals for new Themes, starting in 2026. We welcome original, innovative, and pioneering Theme proposals that will advance science using X-rays, neutrons, and complementing techniques. LINXS Themes...
Ester Baiget, CEO of MVA member Novonesis, honored as PwC business profile of the year
Motivated by among other things her strong role in the merger between Novozymes and Chr. Hansen, which has created a leading and world-class company, MVA member company Novonesis, within the biosolutions-industry, CEO Ester Baiget was honored as this year´s PwC business profile of the year. The jury consisted of Anne Broeng, chairman of the board, Velliv. Henrik Poulsen, chairman of the board for Carlsberg Group Jeppe Christiansen, CEO of Maj Invest Jørgen Jensen, chairman of the board 3shape,...
“Fighting diabetes across borders” DiaUnion-interview in Nordic Life Science Magazine
This summer, the Swedish-Danish project DiaUnion, which aims to prevent type 1 diabetes, launched a pioneering screening program – taking this unique cross-border collaboration to the next level. Nordic Life Science Magazine reached out to Project Director, Finn Kristensen, and, Chairman of the regional board in Region Skåne, Carl-Johan Sonesson (photo), to learn more about the ambitions and first steps in this unique cross-border partnership between Lund University and Steno Diabetes Center...