The journal Cancer Research (IF 12.3) publishes an article with Johan Hartman and Mattias Rantailanen as shared last authors. The article describes how expression of genes can be predicted directly from routine stained microscopy images of breast cancer.
Read the full scientific paper here .
News article on high valuation of research patents. On June 22 Swedens largest financial newspaper published an article about MedTechLabs and the valuation of patens for medical technology.
Analytics company Cascelotte has placed research patents from the centre researchers at the same level as top universities such as Stanford, Harvard, Oxford and Johns Hopkins. In the article Niclas Roxhed and Johan Schuber explains the importance of getting such high valuation of the patents clarified:
”For me as a researcher it’s about that I want to see my inventions getting into use in the healthcare”, explains Niclas Roxhed, research leader in micro and nano systems at Medtechlabs.
”It is also very important results for Stockholm in order to attract the best talents and to get companies to place their R&D here” ascerts Johan Schuber.
Read the full article (in Swedish) here
"New study: The world-class value of Swedish medical technology. At the same world-leading top level as Stanford, Harvard, Oxford and Johns Hopkins, there is Swedish research in medical technology. This is shown by a new, unique study of the economic value of research patents."
Today Nature Communications published the article "Multianalyte serology in home-sampled blood enables an unbiased assessment of the immune response against SARS-CoV-2" with MedTechLabs's Niclas Roxhed as first author.
Read the full scientific article at the Nature Communications website, here.
Also, read about the project on home-testing of Covid-19, here (in swedish).
“From Quarks to Cancer Control – Science and Lessons Learned Bringing Photon-Counting Detectors to Spectral CT” was the headline when Mats Danielsson, professor in physics and program leader at MedTechLabs held a seminar lecture for Johns Hopkins Medical Engineering, May 18.
We asked Mats about his lecture and what he told the attendees, consisting of both faculty, management and students, about Swedish medtech research and development.
– The lecture focused on my experiences from translating research into use for the benefit of society. From my point of view, it is the application of good ideas from research into startups that it the fastest track to create value. I also took the chance of explaining that Sweden, though being a small country, always ranks very high for innovation in international comparison, that Forbes put Sweden on second place after the UK in their 2019 ranking of “Best countries for business”.
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One of the questions from the students was if they would need to choose between the academy or the industry. Mats’ answer was that it’s becoming more common for researchers to switch back and forth. And that KTH Royal Institute of Technology is generous in letting their researchers get leave long enough to create useful things outside the university.
– Also, I explained the Swedish “Teacher Exception”, letting researchers at the universities own the rights to their research and giving them the possibility to apply for patents. I promote this system even it other systems, which are common at US universities, can also work. The most important thing is probably that the researcher is present – in some way at least – all the way from the beginning and into the launch of the product.
Mats Danielssons work is a good example of strong interaction with industry, having built up several companies from his research at KTH. He has also seen an openness from investors towards researchers when it comes to making creative use of scientific results which may not have delivered on the original purpose.
– Sometimes it’s clear that what you were aiming for originally with the project, will not work. Today it’s possible to suggest a pivot, asking the investor to fund another angle. I myself did this with a project on stacked prism lens technology, where we shifted application from medical imaging to the use in telescopes for astronomy, which we later published in Nature Astronomy.
Mats is a firm believer in that researchers should build up a stack of ideas. If you wait five years, the idea might have become more relevant and the technology to develop the idea might have matured enough to move forward.
He also advised the students to learn enough mathematics and programming during their studies. If not, there is a clear risk that they cannot compete with students who have majored in these areas.
– Everybody needs to know some Matlab and Python.
Researchers such as Jeffrey Siewerdsen at Johns Hopkins acted as important advisors when MedTechLabs was formed. Today there is an ongoing dialogue between Johns Hopkins, KTH and the centre on additional collaboration, like the possibility for master student exchange.
On April 29 2021 Måns Marklund, CEO Cascelotte, presented new methods for the analysis and valuation of economic effects from research and innovation. Watch the video from the seminar here (27 minuter).
Link to video: youtu.be/wU73dc9_H98
Nature Communications has published “COVID-19 pathophysiology may be driven by an imbalance in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system” written by MedTechLabs researcher Johan Lundberg with co-authors.
Read the full article here.
Read about Johan Lundberg and his research at MedTechLabs here.
The foundation Stockholm Pandemic Resilience donates 200 000 SEK to the project "Enhanced diagnose of patients with long COVID", with project managers Docent Peder Olofsson, Karolinska Institutet and Professor Henrik Hult, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, practising at MedTechLabs.
This is the first donation the centre gets and where the full amount is directed to these researchers. The project will, among other things, use advanced mathematic analysis to find the causes to why some patients are affected by long COVID.
”We are very grateful that the foundation Stockholm Pandemic Resilience has chosen to support the project and welcomes additional foundations, companies and individuals who which to accelerate the important research conducted by Peder Olofsson och Henrik Hult. We also want to express our gratitude towards KTH Development Office for their professional handling of the donation which means that the researchers can start their work immediately”, says Johan Schuber, Executive Director MedTechLabs
The foundation Stockholm Pandemic Resilience stands behind the initiative WeFightCovid which gathers over 50 individuals and companies who, on a non-profit basis, engage in supporting the healthcare and society in the fight against the Corona virus. Read more about WeFightCovid and Stockholm Pandemic Resilience here.
"Now researchers at the Karolinska Institutet and KTH's MedTechLabs want to solve the mystery of the disease with mathematical calculations and machine learning algorithms."
Göran Gustafsson foundation's grand price for Research at Uppsala University and KTH. Mats Persson is awarded for developing his research in the field of engineering physics at KTH as a young promising researcher. The 3-years grant amounts to SEK 2 750 000.
About the Göran Gustafsson Foundation for Research at Uppsala University and KTH foundation:
Göran Gustafsson (1919 – 2003) was born in the far north of Sweden, in a small village 50 kilometers outside of Gällivare. He became a successful businessman, notably in real estate. The sale of buildings created an economic basis for Göran Gustafsson’s donations to two foundations that promote basic scientific research in the fields of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics and medicine. Through these donations, Göran’s vision was to provide Swedish researchers with the prerequisite conditions for competing with the best researchers in the world. The two foundations support active researchers.
In 1986 Göran Gustafsson created a foundation to support basic research in the field of medicine at Uppsala University and in the field of engineering physics at both the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Uppsala University. The Göran Gustafsson Foundation for Research at Uppsala University and KTH started with a donation of 136 million Swedish SEK and currently Awards 14 million crowns in grants annually.