Nordic Life Science Days 2017, the region’s premier partnering event, this year in Medicon Valley
Malmö, May 23, 2017. Having grown steadily over the first four years, the 2-day annual Nordic Life Science Days has become an established arena for high quality meetings between investors, global companies and Nordic innovative companies. Now after 4 years in Stockholm, Nordic Life Science Days takes place in Malmö, September 12-14 in the heart of Medicon Valley.
MEDIA INVITE
We would like to invite you to Nordic Life Science Days in Malmö, Sweden, September 12-14 which we believe will give you an excellent opportunity to find great stories on both the Nordic region in general and individual companies, initiatives and organizations. For media registration, please contact Olivier Duchamp, Managing Director, olivier.duchamp@bionordic.com, or Ola Björkman, PR partner at ola.bjorkman@letemknow.se. You’ll receive a dedicated code applicable for registering on www.nlsdays.com.
Press release
With still more than 3 months to go, delegates from all over the world are signing up at an accelerated rate for Nordic Life Science Days 2017 – up by 30% compared to May last year pointing to yet another all-time high number of delegates. The core concept is still the same, a combined conference, partnering and exhibition event with lots of opportunities for networking. The partnering activities have doubled over the last four years and in 2016, 12,000 meeting requests were recorded and 2,200 meetings scheduled.
“The Nordic region is home to several hundred entrepreneurially-driven companies within drug development and other sectors of life science. For example, last year’s pipeline report on drug development activities in Sweden presented a record-high 367 projects, of which 60% were preclinical. Thus, the current trend for pharma companies to look for collaborations earlier and earlier in the value chain makes NLSDays increasingly relevant as a life science partnering event.”, says Jonas Ekstrand, Director General, SwedenBIO, the Swedish life science industry organization which founded the event four years ago. “And, as a special feature this year, we will be holding both an Academic’s Catwalk and a Startups’ Challenge to showcase some of these projects.”
The conference program
Small drug companies in the early phases of development typically rely on sub-contracting their product development rather than investing internally. Especially in the Nordics, this has created a demand for excellence when it comes to expert services. One of the Four Deep Dive Super Sessions highlights the key role of expert services providers and how many of them are now investing heavily in their own research to be able to meet the needs of an increasingly competitive market and how this has created an efficient drug development eco-system in the Nordics.
The other three Deep Dive Super sessions cover cutting edge approaches and methodologies for Regenerative Medicine, Digital Health and Infectious Diseases and Vaccines.
A couple of Disease-Focused Super Sessions cover Diabetes and Immunomodulatory approaches to Oncology respectively. The sessions gather experts with complementary expertise to present and discuss recent approaches within these areas.
Another two Super Sessions focus on financing issues. One is about discussing solutions to the dilemma that some of biopharma’s promising clinical trials are being moved down the priority list and their execution delayed – can complementary trials be packaged together and can other players come in to fund these? The other super session covers novel approaches to solving the continuing challenge, early financing.
The super sessions are all backed by workshops and company presentations showcasing the vast number of innovative companies in the Nordic region.
Pre-conference visits
There will also be a pre-conference fringe on September 12thwith two main events. First a coach tour to Lund, only 20 km outside Malmö to visit the recently inaugurated MAX IV facility and the under construction ESS. And then, don’t miss the Academic’s Catwalk and the Startups’ Challenge just before the Welcome Get Together.
About NLSDays
NLSDays is a SwedenBIO event, produced by Bionordic. Nordic Life Science Days has grown rapidly since its launch in 2012 to become the largest Nordic partnering conference for the global life science industry. In 2016, 1,070 delegates from 36 countries attended the meeting. The 680 companies attending engaged in over 2,000 one-on-one meetings.
Among the investors and big pharma registered for the meeting so far include AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cadila, Daiichi Sankyo, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Roche, Servier, Sanofi and Johnson & Johnson
Venue: Malmömässan, Mässgatan 6, 215 32 Malmö, Sweden.
Time: September 12-14, 2017
Nordic Life Science Days is a SwedenBIO event produced by Bionordic.
Contacts
General information: Olivier Duchamp, olivier.duchamp@bionordic.com., +33 (0) 608 804 515.
Regarding the conference program: bjorn.ursing@swedenbio.se., +46 (0) 708 111 268.
Media-related: Ola Björkman, ola.bjorkman@letemknow.se., +46 (0) 70 245 74 97.
About SwedenBIO, http://swedenbio.se/information-in-english/
SwedenBIO, the trade association for the Swedish life science sector has more than 200 members operating across all sub-sectors from pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical technology to diagnostics. SwedenBIO serves to the benefit the entire life science industry in Sweden and is a member-driven, private, non-profit organization. The main objective is to contribute to improving the conditions for the life science industry for the benefit of industry growth and business development. Sweden’s life science industry accounts for 20% of Sweden's net exports.
About Bionordic, http://www.bionordic.com
Bionordic is a full service global event management company that designs, plans and produces engaging conferences and corporate events for the life science industry. The organization supports a broad range of global clients including public and private agencies, non-governmental organizations, regional and multinational corporations.
Based on cutting edge technology solutions, Bionordic offer event services including strategic planning, venue selection and design through to cloud and database and community management tools.