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Academy meetings<br />
No vaccine manufacturing in Sweden<br />
numerous projects are currently in progress, in sweden<br />
as well as in many other countries, to find new vaccines for<br />
diseases such as malaria and cholera. one problem is keeping production<br />
costs down. ivA's division x, Biotechnology, held a meeting on 3 february<br />
to look at the vaccine manufacturing situation. one of the problems for swedish research that<br />
was highlighted was that there will soon be no vaccine production activity in sweden. The only remaining<br />
manufacturer is about to move to switzerland.<br />
Growing metropolitan areas<br />
At a seminar in<br />
gothenburg in<br />
April development<br />
in the malmö<br />
and gothenburg<br />
metropolitan areas<br />
were compared.<br />
malmö has grown<br />
more rapidly and<br />
is now bigger than<br />
the gothenburg area. malmö is also far ahead<br />
in certain infrastructure areas. gothenburg<br />
has, however, worked hard in recently years<br />
to find a common vision and platform. The<br />
goal is to have several attractive regional<br />
centres around a strong nucleus.<br />
Biochips are a tool to fight cancer<br />
Through newly<br />
developed technology<br />
that uses a<br />
combination of<br />
antibodies and biochips,<br />
it is possible<br />
to diagnose complex<br />
diseases, for<br />
example to identify<br />
the exact type of<br />
a tumour. This technology was presented<br />
at the Assembly of the Academy on 19<br />
march. on the same occasion, the winners<br />
of this year's Akzo nobel science Award,<br />
carl Borrebaeck and Thomas laurell, were<br />
congratulated (see separate article, p. 45).<br />
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<strong>IVA</strong> lowered the pound<br />
mervyn king, governor of the Bank of england,<br />
visited ivA's division ix, economics, in<br />
september to talk about the financial crisis.<br />
But when mr. king also wanted to meet<br />
some of his contacts at the Riksbank, sweden's<br />
central bank, there was a problem.<br />
The media found out about the visit and<br />
it became a topic of conversation in the<br />
financial markets. The swedish Riksbank had<br />
namely just shocked the world by introducing<br />
a negative interest rate. Was mervyn<br />
king thinking of doing something similar<br />
at the Bank of england? The rumour mill<br />
contributed to the pound's further decline<br />
at the end of september.<br />
A Swedish ESS<br />
Preparations for<br />
the interdisciplinary<br />
research centre<br />
ess, european<br />
spallation source,<br />
are now in full<br />
swing and are<br />
centered around<br />
lund university. At<br />
a meeting arranged<br />
by ivA's industrial Research committee<br />
(iRc) on 26 november, the project was<br />
described and discussed from a political,<br />
technical and scientific perspective. one<br />
issue raised was how swedish industry can<br />
benefit from ess.
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