Our Mission and History
About Us
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A pilot-scale, non-GMP open testbed for biological, technological, and digital innovations in bioprocessing.
Open to start-ups, academics, and bioprocess industry partners, both nationally and internationally. Typical projects are focused on biological production, technological innovation, and digital innovation. The production facility offers a range of bioprocessing equipment and laboratories for end-to-end bioprocessing. The center is also open to university courses who aim to provide students with practical, hands-on learning in a real bioprocessing setting.
With the guidance from our bioprocess expert staff, Testa Center will provide you the opportunity to verify your methodology, gain experience in pilot-scale settings, accelerate industrialization, and increase your project value to investors.
Our Mission
A testbed and innovation hub for biological, technological, and digital innovations connected to the production of biological products.
Together we accelerate the journey of world-changing innovations.
Verify innovation
Biological, technological, and digital products and services are all welcome in Testa Center to meet the real world of applications and complexity in biological production.
Accelerate industrialization
Shorten the timeline, control risk, and let us help you execute the work needed for you to gain momentum.
Secure excellence
Let us grow together! We embrace training and education to secure the work force of the future in biological production.
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The 3 pillars
Our 3 pillars showcase how our mission and vision are applied on a day-to-day basis.
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A collaboration between cytiva and the Swedish government
How it started
In 2016, Cytiva and the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation were reviewing options for accelerating growth for innovative technologies in Bio-pharma. In 2016 they made a deal to lower the thresholds into the bio-production by making modern Bio-pharma infrastructure available to the world in a way that benefits academia, small and medium companies developing, testing and verifying bio-production products and technology.
Where does Cytiva come into play?
Cytiva is a global provider of technologies and services that advance and accelerate the development and manufacture of therapeutics. Testa Center is the platform for Cytiva to listen, learn, collaborate and do training with academia and small-medium businesses.
In practical work this implies:
- Joining the ecosystem of cutting-edge research and startup innovation.
- Using Testa Center as testing ground for collaborations and projects.
- Learn startup culture by rotation of staff from the Biopharma company to Testa Center.
- Training and professional development of the life science workforce in general.
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Our Clients
Testa Center has been trusted by more than 100 innovators over the years.
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Publications
Get inspired by the publications that have emerged from Testa Center.
Napoleone et al. (2021)
Napoleone et al., Fed-batch production assessment of a tetravalent bispecific antibody: A case study on piggyBac stably transfected HEK293 cells. N Biotechnol. 2021.
Foster et al. (2022)
Foster et al., Demonstration of a compact deep UV Raman spatial heterodyne spectrometer for biologics analysis. J Biophotonics. 2022.
Schwarz et al. (2022)
Schwarz et al., Integrated continuous biomanufacturing on pilot scale for acid-sensitive monoclonal antibodies. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2022.
Tallvod et al. (2023)
Tallvod et al., Automated quality analysis in continuous downstream processes for small-scale applications. J Chromatogr A. 2023.
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Advancing the life science industry
Testa Center is highly engaged in initiatives that support the development of the life science industry in the Nordics.
NTA
Nordic Therapeutic Alliance
Despite a vibrant life science industry, too few advanced therapies reach patients in the Nordic region. The Nordic Therapeutic Alliance (NTA) aims to tackle this by…
Despite a vibrant life science industry, too few advanced therapies reach…
BRIDGE
BRIDGE Sweden
BRIDGE Sweden is a national effort designed to strengthen Sweden’s capacity to develop and produce future biological pharmaceuticals. As project coordinator, Testa Center plays a central role in shaping…
BRIDGE Sweden is a national effort designed to strengthen Sweden’s capacity to…
WARA
WARA Medicine
WARA Medicine was established to address a growing need: the pharmaceutical industry is generating increasingly complex, high dimensional data, yet decision-making processes remain constrained by…
WARA Medicine was established to address a growing need…
