Highlights from the SweCare Delegation to Boston | October 17-19, 2023

Throughout October 17-19, we hosted our second delegation for this fall: Swecare, a non-profit organization under the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. Their primary purpose was to gain valuable insights from the life science and healthcare ecosystems that prevail here in The Greater Boston area. See the highlights here!

Part of the delegation outside mit’s “great dome”

A considerable part of the delegation together with Professor Jose J. Pacheco (left-most) and SACC-NE interns Adam and Valter (5th and 6th from the left) in front of the MIT campus. Prof. Pacheco provided a fantastic guided tour of it!

Maureen Bisognano, Institute for healthcare improvement

Maureen Bisognano from IHI. She gave an insightful talk on how facilitate innovations in hospitals in the US.

damon cox, sunanda narayan & burhan m. together with part of the delegation as well as intern adam svenningsson (2nd from the right)

Damon Cox, Sunanda Narayan & Burhan M. from the startup accelerator MassChallenge explained how they enable Boston and Massachusetts to be a top startup-hub in the world.

karen deyo, life science nation

Karen Deyo from Life Science Nation inspired our delegation with how her organization allows early-stage Life Science companies to get channeled into the early-stage VC network here.

Christa Bleyleben, robert gottlieb, abigail barrow (mass global partners), magdalena huber (Sacc-ne) and brian johnson (mass medic)

Robert, Christa, and Abigail from Mass Global Partners and Brian from Mass Medic gave two interesting talks on how Kendall can retain its slogan of being the most innovative square mile in the world.

brian anthony, ph.d. @ mit

Brian Anthony, Technical Director at MIT, gave an interesting lecture on MIT’s departmental structure, and also showed some fascinating new inventions to come out of MIT. Did you know that MIT would be counted as the 10th largest economy in the world if we’d count all the companies that have spun off out of the university?

Shawn ziang and the swecare delegation

Shawn Ziang from CCTR gave an interesting presentation on how they enable both students, faculty, and external companies to work with clinical and translational projects at MIT.

catherine ricci (left) showing the premises of cctr

CCTR Director Catherine Ricci showed us the amazing facilities that they provide.

interns adam & valter getting an opportunity to play ping pong in the name of science

At CCTR, they can monitor our motion and draw health-related conclusions from that. Our interns Adam and Valter got to play some ping pong to check that they were both in good physical form!

PROF. MARTHA L. GRAY & PROF. JOSÉ J. PACHECO

Prof. Martha L. Gray and Prof. José J. Pacheco had interesting discussions with our delegation-members on how to enable cross-fertilization between technology and medicine.