UK-Medicon Valley Bioscience Alliance

The UK-Medicon Valley Bioscience Alliance is a strategic initiative to join up world-class bioscience excellence and to promote new collaborations between researchers, companies and clinicians. The aim is to facilitate greater co-operation between Sweden, Denmark and the UK, and to further develop world class bioscience research. The Alliance stimulates research exchange programmes and new interactions between organisations, encourages innovation and technology transfer and open new doors to exploit commercial opportunities.

The UK-Medicon Valley Bioscience Alliance is run jointly by the Medicon Valley Alliance (MVA) and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) at the British Embassies in Copenhagen and Stockholm.

Vision & Success Criteria

The aim of the UK-Medicon Valley Bioscience Alliance is to encourage new partnerships which may not otherwise have come about. Therefore, the Alliance concentrates on running, supporting and facilitating cross-over initiatives that stimulate new and innovative research and industry co-operations, knowledge sharing consortiums and investments into exciting young companies in the UK and Medicon Valley.

Targets for the Alliance

Start a Post Doc programme in each of the following therapeutic areas: diabetes, oncology, CNS and inflammatory diseases. The first Post Doc programme, comprising of 4 Post Doc students should be up and running by 2008 and the remaining 3 programmes, each with 4 Post Doc students, should be in place by 1 July 2009.

Together with involved parties we aim to open the door for research collaborations worth over €13 million of external funding from The Seventh EU Framework and similar programmes. The result will be measured over a three-year period of the UK-Medicon Valley Alliance up to 2009.

Sponsorship & funding opportunities

There are a variety of exciting opportunities for your company or organisation to support the key activities of the Alliance. This could be either through sponsorship or via co-funding one or more PostDoc scientists. Please contact our project managers to discuss in more detail in which way you would like to take part in the UK–Medicon Valley Bioscience Alliance.

A detailed description of the key initiatives is available for all interested parties.

The Alliance website

Read more at www.biosciencealliance.eu

For further information and for details of sponsorship opportunities, please contact Project Manager Stina Gestrelius (Medicon Valley) at sg@mva.org or Lin Bateson (UK) at info@biosciencealliance.eu.