QureTech Bio AB (QTB), a pharmaceutical development company originating from Umeå University, proudly announces the appointment of three new board members at its Annual General Meeting held on May 25, 2023. This strategic move is aimed at further enhancing QTB's drug and business development.
The newly appointed board members are:
Yijing Sun Hultgren
Yijing has over a decade of experience
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.
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 its aim to reach out globally with its colorectal cancer test product, ColoNode®.
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.
Umeå Biotech Incubator (UBI) is ending its program season 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.
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.
The Board of Directors of Umeå Biotech Incubator (UBI) has announced that CEO Jennie Ekbeck is leaving her post after eleven years.
Umeå-based pharmaceutical company Vakona has been given a capital injection of just over SEK 14 million from five investors to help it develop a new drug to treat acne.
Xerum became nationally known for its self sampling and one of the world's most sensitive antibody test during the Covid pandemic. Now the Umeå company has been nominated for the MedTech4Health Innovation Award.
Two cases in the pre-incubator break new ground at Umeå Biotech Incubator. Jonathan Love and Cropcision work in agtech and Daniel Pacurar is developing an idea in biotechture with his case Shades of Green.
Brian Reznik, CEO and co-founder of the Argentinian startup Nanotransfer, hails the International Incubator Program at Umeå Biotech Incubator. "The business coaches were very perceptive and understood our challenges and what we are trying to achieve," he says.
The life science industry in Umeå is well represented at the local business gala Umeågalan in March. Cytiva, Sartorius Stedim Data Analytics and Spinchem are nominated in four different categories.
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