2017-06-30 09:18Press release

SmiLe has strengthened the team with expertise within molecular biology

Smile Incubator in Lund, Sweden, is happy to have engaged Martina Schneider in our team, in order to add value to the core facility and better support the companies. She holds a PhD in biology from University of Cologne in Germany, and arrived to BMC at Lund University for her post doc. The last 20 years she has worked as researcher at BMC and at Copenhagen University.

Martina´s fields of expertise lie within developmental biology, molecular biology, cell biology and model systems. She will work with SmiLe´s core facilities with assignments such as introduction to laboratory instrumentation and applications, trouble shooting and organization.

For additional information, please contact:

Ebba Fåhraeus, CEO at SmiLe Incubator

Mobile: +46 734000433

e-mail: ebba@smileincubator.life

Or visit our mediaroom

Language: English

About SmiLe Venture Hub – Pioneering Life Science Innovations

SmiLe is a business incubator within life science based in Medicon Village in Lund. SmiLe helps entrepreneurs and startup companies to develop and commercialize new ideas. Our main task is to help the management teams of these companies to navigate the complexities of business development, financing, recruitment and risk management. There are currently around 20 companies in SmiLe, which together have attracted more than SEK 1 000 million in venture capital to date since 2014. Approximately 100 people, representing 20 nationalities, and almost 50 percent of whom are women, work at SmiLe incubator. SmiLe is a community consisting of experts, business advisors, incubator companies as well as alumni companies, which when combined provide a unique opportunity for Life Science Industry startups to benefit from their extensive collective experience. The opportunity also includes an infrastructure that is unique of its kind in Sweden, with well-equipped laboratories and advanced instrumentation. SmiLe has its major financing from Lunds university, Lund Municipality, Region Skåne och Medicon Village.