Join MVA’s next R&D Network meeting to explore how life science companies can leverage world-class research infrastructures—like MAX IV, ESS, DESY, and European XFEL—alongside university and hospital expertise in Southern Scandinavia and Northern Germany. Learn how to design and participate in pilot projects spanning structural biology, drug development, medical imaging, and more, while networking with potential industry and academic partners.
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What’s in it for you?
- Learn about state-of-the-art infrastructures and their capabilities for your R&D needs.
- Meet local infrastructure experts on front-end technologies, instruments, expertise, and data handling.
- Find your next collaboration partner from industry and/or university and start designing a first pilot study together.
- Learn how the HALRIC consortium can support such pilot studies.
Program:
14:00 Registration and Networking
14:30 Welcome
Anette Steenberg, CEO, Medico Valley Alliance
14:35 Introduction and overview
Moderator Stephan Bouman, Head of Project Portfolio Management, Medicon Valley Alliance
Why are research infrastructures important to a company?
How can a company get supported through HALRIC and its network?
14:50 Research Infrastructures – what is possible?
Emanuel Larsson, HALRIC Ambassador, Lund University
Which infrastructures are available through HALRIC, and what capabilities do they have?
Which research infrastructure to use for what problem?
How can companies and academic HALRIC partners work together on a study?
15:10 Glimpses into practice – companies using research infrastructures
Advancing cellular infection models in the search for new antibiotics
Pernille Rose Jensen, Associate Professor, Department of Health Technology, DTU
Accelerate discovery through structural insights – case examples with antibodies and small molecules
Björn Walse, CEO, SARomics Biostructures
15:40 Coffee break
16:10 How can companies work with cryo-EM?
Andreas Bøggild, Application Specialist, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University
16:25 How can companies work with a large-scale research infrastructure?
Maryam Olsson, Grant Office Manager and Industrial Relations Officer, MAX IV
16:40 Idea bazaar – how can I join? A facilitated exchange of ideas and creation of new contacts. Moderated by:
Stephan Bouman, Head of Project Portfolio Management, Medicon Valley Alliance
Veronica Lattanzi, Industry Engagement Manager HALRIC, Medicon Valley Alliance
17:00 Networking and light snacks
18:00 End of meeting