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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.
“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...
The 2024 Inside Medicon Valley Magazine available for free download
This year´s, Inside Medicon Valley Magazine 2024, which is a joint venture between MVA, Copenhagen Capacity, Medeon Science Park and JS/Sverige, highlights key life science stakeholders and strongholds in the Danish-Swedish Medicon Valley life science cluster and is your easy-to-read English introduction to the region. We hope you will enjoy the reading and some of the familiar faces and company profiles. The magazine includes inspiring articles including an update on the Novo Nordisk...
Register for Bio Europe in Stockholm with your 10 % MVA member discount
We hope you enjoyed last week´s Nordic Life Science Days in Malmoe. As you know, next year will be in Gothenburg. But we expect meeting you again later this year! Just a week before our annual flagship event, the MVA Annual Summit , 11th of November here in Copenhagen, we hope to reconnect at Bio Europe 4-6th of November in the wonderful Swedish capital of Stockholm. If you plan to go too, do not forget to register with the 10 % MVA member discount!
Can we boost our cultural attractiveness? New MVA chairman column in Nordic Life Science News by Niels Abel Bonde
Both Danes and Swedes like to emphasize, and often make fun of, the more or less significant differences between our cultures. From the outside looking in, however, we are also very much alike, and just as fish can’t see water, we are often blind to elements of our own culture, because we take norms, habits, and social practices for granted. One such element often highlighted by foreigners living in both Denmark and Sweden is that it is considered hard to make friends with Swedes and Danes. Do...
Register for University of Copenhagen SUND Innovation Day 2024
The Pipeline Innovation team is pleased to invite to the annual SUND Innovation Day 21st of October at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. The event is a celebration of the innovative minds and entrepreneurial spirits of researchers at UCPH. We bring together researchers, staff members, experts from industry, ecosystem, and venture capital. The day will give a unique opportunity to learn from inspiring pioneers in translational and innovative research: Keynote speeches: Gain insights...
If you are professional – look the part! MVA member benefit on high-class corporate/executive photos
You never get a second chance to make a good first impression! Your product, service, technology or R&D are of course cutting edge and presented convincingly on you webpage. But do your company and your executives come across as a high-end product in both content and form? Do they look the part and do your presentation of them visually support your overall communication objectives and help them serve as ambassadors for your company? As a service to MVA member companies, we have negotiated...
“Life science in the Oresund region is a goose that lays golden eggs” opinion piece in Swedish Dagens Industri by MVA CEO, MVA vice chairman and chairman of Medeon Science Park
"Life science in the Oresund region is a goose that lays golden eggs" is the English translation of the Swedish opinion piece by MVA CEO, Anette Steenberg, MVA vice chairman, Ulf G. Andersson and chairman of Medeon Science Park, Arwin Sohrabi, arguing that leading Nordic life science nations of Sweden and Denmark would both benefit and be better able to position themselves on the global life science map, if they strengthen their collaboration within life science. The authors call for both...
The Future of Swedish – Danish life Science met in the Village in the Valley
For the 13th time "The Future of Swedish - Danish Life Science" kicked off and this time on a sunny Thursday morning at the buzzing Medicon Village - the largest life science park in Scandinavia and home to not only a growing number of MVA member companies, but also a substantial part of MVA network meetings. As part of the welcoming committee, David Munis Zepernick, Director Member Engagement and Communication, MVA, had the pleasure of welcoming both friendly and familiar and new faces to the...
Grand Opening of Symbion Frederiksberg
Last week MVA-member, Symbion, celebrated the official Grand Opening of the latest addition to the Symbion Community: The new location 'Symbion Frederiksberg', which will be the future home to start-up companies withing life science and greentech! (Tennants such as Minervax, Hemab and Acesion Pharma have already moved in) Symbion Frederiksberg is located in newly renovated iconic former Novo Nordisk building literally on the border between Frederiksberg and Copenhagen, and as such there is an...
“The debate about fertility should focus on root causes” opinion piece by MVA CEO, Anette Steenberg in Altinget
Medicon Valley Alliance and the Danish-Swedish ReproUnion-project were instrumental in kicking off the debate about fertility almost ten years ago. Since then political decision-makers, including government ministers, and key opinion leaders have emphasized the need address the fertility challenge. In her most recent piece (in Danish) published in Altinget, MVA CEO Anette Steenberg highlights the importance of the long-term perspective including but not limited to the urgent need for more...