EMPE Diagnostics, which has developed a rapid test for the diagnosis and resistance determination of tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, has recently completed a share issue of SEK 23.5 million with Sciety. The company has also received a grant of SEK 25 million from EU Horizon 2020. The new
PRESS RELEASE. Capitainer, a Swedish Medtech company that supplies intelligent solutions for self-sampling of blood and plasma, recently completed a share issue of SEK 31 million with Sciety and its investment syndicate. The investors demonstrated strong interest, and the share issue was fully subscribed in two days. The new capital
NEW COMPANY AT SCIETY. Most blood sampling is still performed by qualified healthcare personnel at care facilities, but new technology that enables simple and reliable home sampling is now changing the landscape. Sciety finances a Swedish company that is at the forefront of the technology shift. Blood sampling has an
PRESS RELEASE. The American biotechnology company 10x Genomics acquires the Swedish company Cartana, which was financed by the Sciety investment syndicate two years ago. Three years after launch, the Swedish biotechnology company Cartana will be part of the Nasdaq-listed American company 10x Genomics––the market leader in single-cell analysis technology. The
Sciety had the opportunity to ask a few questions to Mats Nilsson, professor at SciLifeLab and co-founder of EMPE Diagnostics and several other biotechnology companies. In the interview he talks about EMPE Diagnostics’ planned establishment in India and and about the need for diagnostic tools in order to use the drugs that are available. He gives an insight into SciLifeLab as the platform for developing ideas and also his view on the role of research in society.
The Sciety syndicate invests in Synartro, which uses existing drugs with proven efficacy to develop an improved drug treatment of knee osteoarthritis. The new capital will be used to complete the pre-clinical development. The company plans to go public to raise capital for phase 1 clinical trials in 2021. Synartro’s