Genovis has received SEK 1.4 million in research support

“The opportunity to apply an interdisciplinary approach with leading groups in medical imaging means a lot to Genovis. Proactive research is important for the company’s long-term development and of course it is gratifying when costs for high-priority projects can largely be financed with external funding. We are constantly evaluating potential new forms of cooperation in combination with external research support,” says Sara Fredrik, CEO of Genovis.

Genovis is one of eight partners in the LUPAS consortium, which aims to develop new tools and technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegenerative diseases caused by prions, an infectious protein that causes illnesses such as mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans. The LUPAS project is financed with a total of SEK 50 million from the EU’s seventh framework programme over the course of three years.

Sentinel node is the working name of the development project that Genovis is conducting together with the Department of Medical Radiation Physics at Lund University. The project is interdisciplinary and the objective for Genovis is to develop a multimodal particle that can guide the surgeon and facilitate diagnosis prior to surgery by separating tumor cells from healthy cells in the “gatekeeping” gland. The project is supported by the Swedish Research Council and LMK Industri AB.