SPEED OF LIFE
30 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago -Building a strong and sustainable Life science sector – together
SPEED OF LIFE is a podcast series focusing on innovations accelerating towards better health.
In each episode, we’ll meet one innovator och company to discuss how to improve health, their company culture, vision, and values, as well as how they perceive the benefits of being part of flourishing ecosystems.
Listen, be inspired, learn and take the insights to your company and gain value today!
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Episodes
TRAILBLAZERS: Håkan Engqvist
October 07, 2023 08:24 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBWe meet Håkan Engqvist - the Inventor. Håkan shares his view on making research ideas into commercial success.
TRAILBLAZERS: Christel Bergström
October 07, 2023 07:41 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBWe meet Christel Bergström - the Research leader. Christel shares how she balances her work and how she blows off some steam, as the researcher-entrepreneur-professor-program director she is.
TRAILBLAZERS: Johan Sundström
October 06, 2023 04:38 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MBWe meet Johan Sundström - the Curious Researcher. Johan shares his thoughts on interdisciplinary work, free will, and paradigm shifts.
TRAILBLAZERS: Ulf Landegren
October 06, 2023 04:25 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBWe meet Ulf Landegren - one of Uppsala Prominent figures. Ulf shares his story from his early days to his view on commercializing research.
TRAILBLAZERS: Sara Mangsbo
October 02, 2023 14:21 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBWe meet Sara Mangsbo - the Super Entrepreneur. Sara shares her motivations and rationale behind the decisions she has made in her career - in a very thoughtful way.
Vidilab AB - Making the world a little better, one analysis at a time
November 28, 2022 09:45 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBWhen animal owners thought it was complicated and slow to send in samples for parasitological analysis, Vidilab solved the problem by developing kollamasken, one of the earliest sample kits on the market, aimed directly for the consumer. kollamasken is a sampling kit containing everything the animal owner needs to easily collect, package and send the sample to the laboratory. On the outside of the box the laboratory address and pre-paid postage is printed, making it even easier for t...
Cavidi AB - Monitoring made Accessible
November 14, 2022 07:24 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBMonitoring made AccessibleThe Cavidi BOLD add-on technology makes highly reliable, incredibly sensitive biomarker detection accessible to all researchers and clinicians globally. The technology requires no specialized equipment or expensive investments. In the lab this will help researchers and drug development teams get to market sooner with life-saving innovations.The Cavidi goal is to democratise ultrasensitive detection.
Rarity Bioscience AB - Radically improving cancer diagnostics
October 17, 2022 05:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBRarity BioScience has developed an ultrasensitive and multiplex technology for mutation detection in liquid biopsies, meaning that we can detect down to 1 mutation in 100,000 healthy cells, which is up to 100 times more sensitive than current technology. And perhaps the best part, the assays are run using existing instruments already available in every hematology lab.We provide the sensitive and cost efficient tools needed to replace conventional costly and painful tissue biopsies wi...
STUNS Life science - Special edition episode about the digital transformation in life science
September 26, 2022 07:32 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBDigitalization has been a hot topic that has been accelerated by the recent pandemic, making us rethink the way we work. The knock-on effects have led to digital business transformations in the life sciences such as digital health apps that enable a more holistic healthcare and digital research & development for accelerated research. Listen more to hear why this trend is important to STUNS!
Ridgeview AB - Understanding drug-target interactions
September 12, 2022 06:41 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBRidgeview Instruments provides LigandTracer® instruments, TraceDrawer® evaluation software and Education to generate insights on biological interactions with live cells. Our products are typically used to improve the design of protein-based therapeutics and target specific PET/SPECT tracers. Ridgeview Instruments is built from the ground up without public investor, has a strong research focus and sustainable growth for over 15 years and has instruments in over 25 countries worldwide...
Kontigo Care AB - A digital revolution in addiction care
August 29, 2022 18:43 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBPrevict is a digital platform for efficient and successful addiction treatment. The therapist receives reports about the patient’s wellbeing and sobriety in real-time, predicting relapses before they occur.Previct also enables faster and more frequent interactions with the patient, and makes it possible for the patient’s family to assist in the treatment. The healthcare provider gain invaluable knowledge while the patient receives daily behavioral therapy, a path leading to deeper an...
STUNS Life science - Special edition episode about sustainability in life science
June 07, 2022 06:25 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBLife science is a sector that has a close relationship with health, well-being and life itself. Naturally much focus within the business community is on the SDG goal number 3, which manifests the very core of the sector itself. Moreover, there is a common understanding through out the sector today that a green transition and a sustainable development is of necessity, if there is to be a healthy and sustainable future.However, to contribute to the sustainable can be manifested in diff...
Bio-Works AB – Next generation chromatography resins
May 23, 2022 06:25 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBBio-Works is an Uppsala-based manufacturer of chromatography resins, an advanced purification tool that makes the development and manufacture of new biological drugs possible. The company was founded in 2006, and today Bio-Works’ next-generation, agarose-based products, ”WorkBeads”, are used to purify proteins, peptides and other biomolecules, resulting in purer therapies and safer diagnostics.
STUNS Life science - Special edition episode about biological processes
May 09, 2022 06:29 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBLife science is an industry with a strong foothold in the Uppsala region, much thanks to successful collaborations between the business community, the two universities, and the University Hospital. In recent years the industry has expanded at a rapid pace, and forecasts predict that it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Novus Scientific AB - Improving patient care with TIGR® Matrix
April 25, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBOur proven medical device technology is helping patients with breast cancer undergoing implant reconstruction to return to an active life and regain self-confidence together with a better body image.TIGR® Matrix is fully resorbable surgical implant with the main purpose to help the body’s own healing. Its unique dual stage degradation design offers the necessary support to soft tissues in the initial wound healing process, and gradually resorbs until it is no longer needed and new st...
Sustainable skill supply - Special edition episode with STUNS Life science
March 28, 2022 06:20 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBLife science is an industry with a strong foothold in the Uppsala region, much thanks to successful collaborations between the business community, the two universities, and the University Hospital. In recent years the industry has expanded at a rapid pace, and forecasts predict that it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Continued expansion, however, places demands on strategies for a sustainable supply of skills. Currently, certain skills are in higher demand than the labor m...
STUNS Life science - Special edition episode on how to meet the skill demand in a sustainable way
March 28, 2022 06:20 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBLife science is an industry with a strong foothold in the Uppsala region, much thanks to successful collaborations between the business community, the two universities, and the University Hospital. In recent years the industry has expanded at a rapid pace, and forecasts predict that it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.Continued expansion, however, places demands on strategies for a sustainable supply of skills. Currently, certain skills are in higher demand than the ...
SweDeliver and AM4Life - Special episode with world leading research and competence centres
March 14, 2022 07:33 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBIn this special edition episode, professor Christel Bergström, Center Director of SweDeliver, and professor Cecilia Persson, Center Director of AM4Life (Additive Manufacturing for the Life Sciences), talk about; the two research and competence centres, their work of creating and developing new and improved drug therapies, technology and spin-offs. Furthermore their contribution to building a strong research environment and ecosystem, their work to provide and support the future suppl...
Lokon Pharma AB - An innovative Swedish cancer therapeutic biotech on their way to market
February 28, 2022 07:41 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBLokon Pharma is a biotech company in Sweden based on research from well renowned Uppsala University. They develop a new cancer medicine based on a virus that selectively kill tumor cells and activates the patients own immune system to attack the tumor. It is often described as an immunostimulatory gene therapy.
Lead and UIC - Special episode with the business incubators Lead and UIC
January 20, 2022 08:43 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBThe incubators provides business development support, knowledge, and networks to innovative startups and fast-growing companies from all sectors.
Stardots AB - A digital health platform for neurological diseases
November 22, 2021 07:39 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBStardots develops a deep-tech Software-as-a-Medical-Device (SaMD) for Parkinson’s disease with the goal to increase quality of life and lower cost to society.Parkinson’s disease is complex, non-curable and costly, and causes great amount of suffering to the patient and their relatives. Since there are no readily available bio-markers, care is often subjective, unequal and not optimized. Stardots digital health approach is to offer progressive markers by mathematical modelling of symp...
Deversify AB - Everyone should understand their own health — meet Deversify
November 08, 2021 07:50 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBDeversify is a Swedish R&D company offering tech solutions in consumer health. We develop and commercialize mobile electronic devices and apps to monitor biomarkers for individualized health. Our products help people understand — and improve — their own health. Our mission is to act as a good force against today’s lifestyle diseases – such as obesity, diabetes, addictions, and cardiovascular disease.Deversify operates in growing consumer health markets which today in Europe and US al...
Immuneed AB - A great team with a drive to become number one
October 18, 2021 04:00 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBAdvanced therapies are increasingly being developed for patients in need, thereby putting pressure on the drug developers to produce qualified, effective, and safe matches. Immuneed combines our strong scientific knowledge with a versatile preclinical platform based on fresh, circulating human blood. Thereby, we provide our customers with a tailored solution in the early stage of development, enabling safe and effective drugs.
Senzime AB - With the vision of a world without anesthesia related complications
October 01, 2021 05:46 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBWith the vision to eliminate anesthesia related complications, Senzime develop and commercialize systems powered by unique algorithms and sensors to monitor patient muscle function and electrical impulses, before, during and after surgery.
Bioreperia AB- BioReperia's revolutionary ZTX-Platform and related products
September 17, 2021 06:33 - 34 minutes - 32 MBBioReperia helps every cancer patient to get the most effective treatment available, for their specific disease.BioReperia has developed a unique zebrafish tumor xenograft (ZTX™) platform that provides functional in-vivo data to evaluate treatment efficacy for tumor regression and metastasis inhibition in only 5 days.Our goal is to increase the speed and accuracy of preclinical drug development and clinical cancer treatment, enabling researchers and clinicians to select the drugs/dru...
Astrego AB -Providing the antibiotic resistance profile at the point of care
September 03, 2021 13:54 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBThe increase of antibiotic resistance is a global threat to human health. It is due to over- and miss-use of antibiotics, as a result of that doctors currently need to prescribe antibiotics before they know the resistance profile of the bacteria.Astrego’s technology provides such a resistance profile in 30 min and therfore allows prescription of effective, non-broad spectrum, antibiotics at the point-of-care. Astrego’s first product targets urinary tract infection, which affects 100...
Ilya Pharma AB - Developing off-the-shelf immunotherapies to treat wounds in skin and mucosa
June 13, 2021 20:32 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBThe ILP-technology is based on deploying chemokines, which until now have been regarded too unstable to be suitable as therapeutics. Ilya Pharma has overcome this problem by letting live lactic acid bacteria produce and deliver the human therapeutic chemokines on site in wounds in skin or e.g in the intestine acting like small bioreactors.
PU Sensor AB - Enables prevention of pressure ulcers
May 31, 2021 05:00 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBPressure ulcer (bedsore) is a both painful and dangerous but unfortunately common medical injury. Among health care-related injuries, pressure ulcers are one of the most burdensome both economically and when it comes to human suffering, OECD reports.PU sensor has developed a method for evaluating a patient’s physiological condition regarding blood flow at pressure and thereby anticipate the risk of pressure ulcer and prevent it from appearing.
Gradientech AB - Precision medicine for a sustainable world
May 12, 2021 11:27 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBGradientech is a Swedish diagnostics company dedicated to support the modern microbiology lab with state-of-the-art solutions that facilitate testing of time-critical sepsis samples.
Celluminova AB - Near-instant detection of live stem cells
May 03, 2021 04:53 - 46 minutes - 42.1 MBThe Biomarker Gliostem® will help neurosurgeons distinguish between healthy and cancerous tissue during brain tumor surgery. Celluminova specializes in developing new tools for stem cell research, including cancer stem cells. The patented biomarker GlioStem is intended for the detection and visualization of stem cell-like cells in brain tumors.