A test bed for production of biological products.
Testa Center went to Finland in November to visit PharmaCity, BioCity, Slush and Y-science to meet and greet with Life Science companies. Although we did not see the sun for four days, it felt like a bright light was shining on us due to the many inspiring people we met! Prohealth Accelerator in Åbo/Turku At …
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How do you work with ideas and innovation in Healthcare and Life Sciences? Region Uppsala Innovation came to Testa Center to discuss open healthcare environments for innovation projects. There seems to be a lot of similarities in the concept to the “test bed”-concept by which Testa Center opens up Life Sciences for academia, companies and …
Academia, startups, companies and industry are all welcome to Testa Center – an open, non-profit, non-GMP, production-like facility and test-bed for education, innovation and proof-of-concept experiments on production processes for biological products. e.g. monoclonal antibodies, peptides and proteins. Access both equipment and expertise to go from lab bench scale to industrial scale of protein production …
“Fifteen projects from Scandinavia have so far benefited from the technology and know-how available at Testa Center. Read full text Over the year we have had the pleasure to have a great variety of project in Testa Center! “The projects range from scale-up and purification activities, educational programs, and digital verification to GE Healthcare Life …
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Come and celebrate one year of great work with our customers and the Testa Center team. Welcome to celebrate the first year anniversary at Testa Center! Meet the testa team, representatives from the first year performing companies and people from the Life Science industry. First we give you some high-lights from the year, what is …
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Want to meet Testa Center’s staff and discuss projects, instruments, innovation-hubs or similar? We are happy see you and welcome you to visit us in stand #20. Looking forward to see you at Nordic Life Science Days 2019! Dr. Lotta Ljungqvist, Testa Center CEO, holds the Official Opening Plenary Make sure to see and listen …
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Uppsala innovation day is a half-day conference on innovation. We expect a lot of networking and forward looking on new companies, technology and trends in science. Testa Center will be present together with Uppsala BIO and have a selfie-booth where you can try out lab-coats and protective-glasses which are used in our labs! Come by …
We are very proud to announce that Lotta Ljungqvist, President & CEO GE Nordics & CEO Testa Center at GE Healthcare received the Biotech Builders’ Award for 2019. According to Biotech Builders, the winner of the prestigious award is a person who embodies the entrepreneurial fundamentals, laying way for the future of the Swedish Life …
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The Gothenburg based, Swedish biotech company Toleranzia AB entered Testa Center building in Uppsala with packages full of materials and hope. Their entrance represents an important national breakthrough for and an opportunity for Toleranzia to validate the manufacturing process for the drug candidate TOL2 and to provide further industrialization of the company itself. “I think …
Manufacturing proteins to support turning cells into any organ of the human body may seem like a movie scene, but BioLamina, a flourishing Swedish company makes it seem more real. Dedication, knowledge and the right environment are the necessary tools to achieve the goal of scaling up and growth. With that in mind, the team …
The Finnish company Sciar Company ltd. creates software for Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) to take human errors out of the equation in Life Science laboratories. Testa Center, as a bridge between innovation, science and industry, could contribute to the development of their product. SciAR has a primary position twice: as a first …
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In an announcement on February 25, GE announced the proposed sale of parts of the current Life Sciences business to US-based Danaher Corporation. The transaction, is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory reviews and appropriate consultation processes, and is expected to be complete by 4Q 2019. Testa Center, as a non-profit company owned and operated by …
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The long-term collaboration agreement with Uppsala University and GE Healthcare gives not only researchers, but also students access to the equipment and specialized expertise at Testa Center. Now in December we are thrilled to have the first class of last-year students on the Master of Science programme in Molecular Biotechnology Engineering at Uppsala University at …
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The Swedish biotechnology company BioLamina was the first customer to run their project at Testa Center. BioLamina was founded in 2008 by Dr. Karl Tryggvason and his son Dr. Kristian Tryggvason, and today the company has grown into a business with global presence and about 20 employees. BioLamina develops, manufactures and distributes premium cell culture …
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Uppsala-based start-up company Ilya Pharma was among the vert first customers to run their project at Testa Center and to use its bio-process equipment. Ilya Pharma was founded in 2016 based on ground-breaking research from Uppsala University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and has today grown to a team of 15 people. The …