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David Munis Zepernick

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Below you will find the latest news from MVA. You can also sign up to our newsletter MVA Update.

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 member Lund-based Asgard Therapeutics announces €30 million Series A financing to advance its first-in-class in vivo cell reprogramming platform for immuno-oncology

On the 14 March 2024 Asgard Therapeutics, a privately held biotech company pioneering in vivo direct cell reprogramming for cancer immunotherapy, announced a €30 million Series A financing. The funds will be used to support development of Asgard´s lead program AT-108 to IND-readiness by 2026, expand and reinforce its research and development team, and fuel new reprogramming modalities and delivery platforms to strengthen the pipeline. The round was co-led by RV Invest and Johnson & Johnson...

Register for Nordic Life Science Days 2024 in Malmo with your 20 % MVA member discount

Nordic Life Science Days is the largest Nordic partnering conference dedicated to the life science industry. Since its inception in 2013, the event has nurtured a community of people from the world of life science, and created a unique place to do business. Most attendees express their delight in the informal atmosphere, combined with an organised approach to meeting highly relevant people. Return visitors come back because they feel they belong to our growing community. This year Nordic Life...

Fourth time in a row, the Danish-Swedish life science cluster organization receives the GOLD label certification from The European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis (ESCA)

The Berlin-based organisation coordinates a network of around 200 cluster experts from more than 30 countries, which offer benchmarking and labelling services on behalf of ESCA. In addition, ESCA provides hands-on advice to cluster managers on cluster development and supports cluster policy makers and programme owners with advice on cluster programme development. High performing cluster organization can receive either bronze, silver or gold label. Medicon Valley Alliance (MVA) was awarded with...

Swedish MVA member company, Gedea Biotech, selected for prestigious grant funding from the European Innovation Council

Yesterday, the EIC announced that Gedea Biotech has been selected for the €2.5M EIC Accelerator grant for the continued development and commercialization of pHyph, an antibiotic free treatment for vaginal infections. The funding will accelerate the development of pHyph, bringing this treatment earlier to patients in need. EIC Accelerator is the most competitive program of its kind in Europe – for the November 2023 cutoff only 42 out of 1083 (~4%) applicants were selected for funding. The final...

“Medicon Valley – building and bridging the most innovative life science cluster in the EU” Business column by MVA chairman, Niels Abel Bonde, in Nordic Life Science Magazine

Boston's Kendall Square close to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is known as ”The most innovative square mile on the planet”, and, apart from our preference for the metric system, there just might be something we could learn from the Americans? Read the full business column "Medicon Valley - building and bridging the most innovative life science cluster in the EU" online.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded a grant of DKK 150 million to establish the Copenhagen Center for Biomedical Quantum Sensing

The Copenhagen Center for Biomedical Quantum Sensing will be established with a grant of DKK 150 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Under this new ambitious research project, researchers at the University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark and the University of Texas at Austin aim to advance quantum sensing and imaging technologies in medical diagnostics and healthcare. “Quantum sensing is among the most mature of the quantum technologies and holds the potential to...

New Director of the Swedish Office for Life Sciences, Jeanette Edblad, interviewed by Nordic Life Science News

While we are eagerly awaiting the publication of the new Danish national life science strategy any day, the Swedish Life Science office has recently kicked off the process of updating the national Swedish life science strategy.  In charge is the new Director of the Swedish Office for Life Sciences, Jeanette Edblad, who was consequently interviewed by the editor of Nordic Life Science News, Malin Otmani last week. In a also piece published last week in Danish media (in Danish) commenting on the...

“Make Medicon Valley a selling point for Danish life science” – MVA contribution to the section “Life Science” published distributed with Børsen and Berlingske this week

The Danish Life Science Council has put forward 12 recommendation for the new update of the national Danish Life Science Strategy. Recommendation number 9 is about health diplomacy and how to attract more life science companies to Denmark. In the special section "Life Science" distributed by Berlingske and Børsen this week, Medicon Valley Alliance chairman, Niels Abel Bonde, and CEO, Anette Steenberg, decided to chip in with a recommendation 9½  encouraging the new visionary strategy to...

ReproUnion/Medicon Valley Alliance is hiring!

Are you experienced within start-up and innovation – curios and hunger to learn, with a flair for communication? The ReproUnion project team is looking for an Innovation and Startup Manager to strengthen and further position the Medicon Valley region as a leading cluster in the fight against infertility. We look forward to receiving your application!