The Testa Center one year celebration in pictures!
Press release “A successful first year for Testa Center”
“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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One year anniversary the 26th of September!
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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See Testa Center in stand #20 at Nordic Life Science Days 2019!
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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Meet us at Uppsala Innovation Day!
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 …
Lotta Ljungqvist receives the prestigious Biotech Builders’ 2019 Award
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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Scaling up the Value with Toleraniza
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 …
Scaling Up the Value with BioLamina
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 …
Testa Center welcomes the SciAR Company to test AR/MR in Bio-process labs
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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GE to sell Bio-Pharma Business to Danaher
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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Uppsala University Master’s Students at Testa Center
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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BioLamina first to arrive to Testa Center
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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Testa Center welcomes Ilya Pharma
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 …