MVAnews LETTER no 4, April 2003
NEWS INDEX
Medicon Valley Days
Medicon Valley PhD programme
Annual Meeting for Cancer Scientists from Denmark and Skåne
MVA and Medcoast Scandinavia in collaboration
Technological foresight within biotech
MVA News
Medicon Valley Days
MVA invites you to Medicon
Valley Days 23-24 April, atAxelborg, Copenhagen.
Day 1: An afternoon seminar on tools to reduce costs and strength competitiveness. What can make your biotech & medicotech company more efficient? Presentations on: patenting, licensing, mergers, outsourcing and content management. Fee: DKK 650,- including conference dinner.
Programme and registration - Day 1
Day 2: Job opportunities in Medicon Valley’s leading companies -for academics & graduates within life sciences. What do these companies do and what are their needs for competencies, now and in the future? Fee: DKK 200 for students and newly graduated. Others: DKK 450,-. Members of the Association of Danish Lawyers and Economists (DJØF), the Society of Danish Engineers (IDA) and the Masters Association (DM) free of charge.
Programme and
registration - Day 2
Medicon Valley PhD programme
The Greater Copenhagen
Authority (HUR) and Region Skåne hereby invite scientists from the
Øresund region to participate in the Medicon Valley PhD Programme.
Medicon Valley PhD Programme is offering partial scholarships for
PhD positions, for occupation from 1 July 2003.
To be considered for Medicon Valley PhD Programme, the
proposed PhD project must be a collaboration between a public
health institution (hospital) and a private company, both of them
located in the Øresund region and on either side of Øresund. A
university in the region must also participate in the
collaboration. With regard to its subject matter, the PhD project
may lie within the fields of medicine, biotechnology or medical
technology, but also within other health-related areas, such as
public health or health economics.
Final date for application: 1 May 2003. More Information (in
English)
Annual Meeting for Cancer Scientists from Denmark and
Skåne
2 May 2003, Charlottenlund, Copenhagen
A unique meeting place for cancer scientists from Sweden and
Denmark. More
Information (in Danish)
MVA and Medcoast Scandinavia in collaboration
Medicon
Valley Academy and Medcoast Scandinavia recently entered a historic
collaboration agreement. More
Information(Swedish/Danish)
Technological foresight within biotech
The Danish Ministry
of Science, Technology and Innovation has just released a report on
the technological foresight within the area of bio-health science.
More
information (in Danish)
New Medicon Valley Academy Members -
MVA member
list
March
HB-Medical ApS; HiQ
Wise A/S
February
Genzyme
A/S; LIMS
Konsulenterne; Ice A/S
January
Royal Danish Veterinary &
Agricultural
University;
Coloplast A/S;
Tilly Medical Products AB;
Skandinaviska Ortopedteknisk Laboratoriet
AB