A testbed for biological production
The Protein Science Facility, Testa Center, and STUNS Life Science had a joint presentation on the 29th of November 2021. How can Karolinska Institutet utilize these support organizations and their …
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Angelica Loskog’s area of research is cancer, specifically, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells, which she began to study as a postdoc at the world’s largest cell and gene therapy center, …
The iGEM competition The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition is an annual and worldwide synthetic biology competition. The event attracts about 6 000 participants who are undergraduate university students, …
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Does it have to take seventeen years (in average) from research to patient in Pharma?[1] Sara Mangsbo and her team gained valuable speed by successfully utilizing the Swedish research infrastructures. …
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Introduction to filtration for application specialists by training and example. Webinar content The first part is filtration technology training on Pall products. The second part describes a large-scale ribosome purification …
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This webinar was held for Academia to learn what Testa Center can provide for them and their academic ambitions. The speakers An introduction to the Testa Center and academic collaboration …
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PharmTech.com interviewed Jesper who talked about the Testa Center, the effects of the pandemic, and the future. Felicity Thomas summarized the best parts in this three-minute article. About the Testa …
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European start-ups are invited to take advantage of the unique pilot-scale testbed for biological drugs. The Testa Center is a purpose-built bioprocessing testbed with modern upscaling equipment open to anyone …
During December 2020, final-year students from Uppsala university learned all about bioprocess optimization for cell growth and purification, and what life is like when you are employed at a bioprocess …
Learn about the capabilities and benefits available to your project in the Testa Center. This video is an 26 minutes introduction by Jesper Hedberg, director of the Testa Center. Moderated …
It was now day five – the last day of the Testa Challenge 2020. Not even such an intense week could bring down the energy levels of the Testa Challenge …
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Biopharma trends in 2020 are; The development of novel personalized therapies. The ever increasing costs for the next generation of biologics. New technology in biopharma benefits the process development, quality …
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They call Wednesday a hump day for a reason. After day one and day two pushing the teams to their limits, the learning curve was certainly step. But at the …
Day two was when many of the participant’s experiments were going live; Video analysis detection, live process-data streaming from Sweden to the US, in-bag sensors to retrieve data from the …
Like most systematic approaches, a failing cog, loose wiring or a single broken piece can cause the whole process to come to a halt. The same principle applies to bioprocess …
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Why is it hard for tech and digital innovation companies to brake new ground in the bioprocess market? Proprietary data standards, long product cycles, legacy systems, high investment costs and …
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The Testa Challenge application period closed in the end of August 2020. ArgusEye and Unibap are two out of the six companies who where selected to participate. At Innovationsveckan you …
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After a comprehensive selection phase, we are proud to present this year’s Testa Challenge participants. ArgusEye, atSpiro, Freesense, IS-Instruments, Scitara and Unibap are companies from around the world who have …
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A test bed to grow the life science and bio-process industry, that was what Lotta Ljungqvist, Emmanuel Ligner, Mikael Damberg and Jesper Hedberg was thinking of back in 2016. Today, …
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Cytiva to test products in a realistic environment very similar to that of our customers. “We ran an entire process from start to finish and were given the opportunity to test everything in large scale”
Remote work and training has ramped-up as Covid-19 have made it much harder for anyone to travel. During this week we conduced several days of training over the Internet. In …
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In May, we had a training on how to leverage parallel bio-reactors. Ramcon‘s two experts, Kenneth Rasmussen and Ida Järbur came to Testa Center and gave a training session on …
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Testa Challenge has now closed for applications. We are happy to announce that we have received very exciting, innovative proposals including sensors, smart laboratory tools, digital twins, process modelling, automation, …
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Cytiva press release (in Swedish) today on the work to test approximately ~1500 people for Covid. Read more about how Testa Center is contributing by sample preparation and logistics. “Cytiva …
we will open our laboratories this fall for a week, both for academic and commercial innovators in the technical or digital field who would have the potential to increase the efficiency or quality of a bioprocess workflow.
We welcome all kind of innovative solutions that have the potential to meet the future technology needs within bio-production. Some examples in the area of technology include sensors, separation technology, pumps, etc. and within the digital/data segment, some examples include cloud solutions, VR / AR, AI, data transfer, modeling, automation, smart laboratory tools, etc.
Projects and companies from the technology/digital segments are invited to integrate, test and witness their innovation within a sponsored production workflow at Testa Center. Alongside the production process, participants will be supported by experts and have the possibility to experience their innovation hands on.
We are happy to announce that Testa Center is now part of Cytiva. We continue our operations as always, and are looking forward to working with you and our community …
As the situation around COVID-19 progresses, we endeavor to keep our Testa Center offices and labs open at this time for important scientific work. We are working daily with our …
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Protein Science Facility, offer services in protein production and provides access to infrastructure for Macromolecular X-ray crystallography (MX) and biophysical protein characterization. Their staff, Tomas Nyman, Elin Dunevall, Henry Ampah-Korsah, …
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One in five children does not have access to the most basic vaccines, and every year approximately 1.5 million people die from diseases that could be prevented with the help …
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The spider web’s strength and elasticity make it a fantastic material with many desirable properties. It is made up of proteins, which make it useful for repairing damaged tissue in …
Maximum funding per project: 300 000 SEK
Required co-funding: 50% (for all entities, including universities).
Who can apply? The opening is available for academic researchers, SME and large companies.
How to apply? Proposals are welcome and will be evaluated on a continual basis. Please contact [email protected] or [email protected]
Sara Mangsbo and her research group just now spend their last month at Testa Center. In pursuit of new cancer therapies, they have tried to create a stable cell line …
On the 11th of December we had the pleasure to welcome Felix Langkjaer, Martin Ohlsson, Peter Cullen with entourage, from Rockwell Automaton, for a meeting in Testa Center. Rockwell Automation …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
“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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
We are very proud to announce that Lotta Ljungqvist, CEO of the Testa Center at Cytiva received the Biotech Builders’ Award for 2019. According to Biotech Builders, the winner of …
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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 …
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. …
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, …
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The long-term collaboration agreement with Uppsala University and Cytiva gives not only researchers but also students access to the equipment and specialized expertise at Testa Center. Now in December, we …
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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 …
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Uppsala-based start-up company Ilya Pharma was among the very first customers to run their project at Testa Center and to use its bio-process equipment. Ilya Pharma was founded in 2016 …