Lower Airways Microbiome
Kristel Svalland Knudsen’s PhD thesis, The lower airways microbiome in patients with interstitial lung diseases(University of Bergen, 2025), synthesizes a decade of work across two rigorously...
Category: Health care
Finland’s Tampere University Advances Custom Processor Design With Open-Source Toolset
Editor’s note: Here is another study from the same team in Tampere. The 2 studies handle two related topics – here is a brief description of their main...
Finnfund Pioneers Digital Inclusion in Emerging Markets Through Fibre Networks
Finnfund Pioneers Digital Inclusion in Emerging Markets Through Fibre Networks Finland’s development financier, Finnfund, is championing a targeted strategy to bridge the digital divide in...
Marine Sponges and the Dawn of Animal Life:
Unravelling 541-Million-Year-Old Clues The question of which organism first crossed the threshold into multicellularity and became an animal has fascinated evolutionary biologists for decades....
Forging the Future Together: 20 Joint Nordic & International Innovation Projects Announced in 2025
The Nordic region's strength in innovation is increasingly demonstrated through powerful collaborations, both within the region and with international partners. Since the start of 2025, a wave of...
Some of the Best 25 Nordic-based Innovations for Industry and Technology
🇫🇮 Finland VTT's Carbon-Recycled Plastic for Automotive PartsFinnish state-owned research body VTT announced a new method to create high-strength polymers from captured CO2 and biomass. The...
How Trump’s Policy Agenda Threatens Nordic Innovation
Nordic innovation has long thrived on a foundation of rule-based governance, international cooperation, scientific integrity, and predictable regulatory environments. Yet the emerging direction of...
Biomimetic Spider Silk for Engineering – Finland
Editor's note: Christer is reporting an interesting innovation here, but most of us will feel inadequate about fully understanding the article - so here is a short summary: "1. Finnish...
Tumour Indicating Morphological Changes in Benign Prostate Biopsies Through Ai – Sweden
Researchers have uncovered a hidden diagnostic signal inside prostate biopsies long believed to be benign. Their study reveals that routine tissue sections—dismissed as cancer-free by...
Nordic Innovations in October to mid-November 2025
🇫🇮 Finland – Nanoform Finland Plc:The Helsinki-based nanoparticle medicine company announced a partnership with Revio Therapeutics on a nano-formulated hydrogel drug (GLIORA)...
Understanding Food Structure Through X-ray and Neutron Techniques from Lund University
Food is more than just a mix of ingredients—it is a complex, hierarchical material where structure determines texture, taste, and even nutritional value. To design healthier and more sustainable...
Electrically Controllable Optical Devices: A New Frontier in Photonics
Modern photonics demands components that are not only fast and efficient but also dynamically tuneable. HyCom Core introduces a breakthrough in this domain: an electrically controllable...
Nordic Discoveries – Genetic Architecture of Hidradenitis Suppurativa: A Meta-GWAS Reveals Key Roles for Notch and Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Pathways
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with poorly understood etiology. In a landmark genome-wide association meta-analysis (GWAS) involving 4,814 HS cases and over 1.2...
Danish Input for Ant Holobiont Re-Innovation as Catalyst for Yogurt Fermentation!
Fermentation has long been a cornerstone of human food culture, with yogurt representing one of its most iconic products. While industrial fermentation relies on standardized bacterial strains,...
🇩🇰 Danish Innovations in October 2025
🇩🇰 Denmark 1) DTU hosts AltProteinX 2025Breakthroughs in plant-based, fermentation & cultivated meat.Industry–academia collaboration pitched for scale-up.Nordic protein transition...
Ustekinumab & Adalimumab – An Icelandic Innovation Saga?
Alvotech, headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, operates a vertically-integrated biosimilars platform from cell-line development through finished manufacturing, enabling control over cost and speed....
Nanoimprove Your Medicine From Finland
Helsinki’s Nanoform is converting nanoparticle engineering into clinic-ready products. Its Controlled Expansion of Supercritical Solutions (CESS®) process creates crystalline API nanoparticles...
A Future IBS Treatment from Sweden?
In the latest microbiome research, Moretti and colleagues uncover a surprising actor in gut physiology: specific human gut bacteria can synthesise bioactive serotonin and thereby influence...
Detecting Bladder Cancer from Norway
Photocure ASA, based in Oslo, describes itself as “The Bladder Cancer Company”. Its core commercial offering centres around the use of its fluorescent imaging agent – marketed as Hexvix®...
Antibody Therapies from Denmark
Genmab, headquartered in Copenhagen, has built a strong royalty-driven foundation via approved medicines such as DARZALEX® (daratumumab) and TEP‑KINLY® (epcoritamab) while shifting into...
🇫🇮 🇸🇪 🇩🇰 🇳🇴 🇮🇸 Nordic Healthcare Innovation News – September/October 2025
🇫🇮 FINLAND 1) University of Helsinki (FI)• Breakthrough on tumor immune evasion mechanisms (checkpoint regulation) announced Oct 2025.• Potential new targets for immunotherapies.•...
🇩🇰 Denmark – AI Innovations – September 2025
1) UCPH: AI predicts diseases 20 years ahead• Public health AI model forecasts multicomorbidity risk.• Validated with Danish registry data.• Could aid prevention/triage planning.•...
An Updated forumNordic is Back!
forumNordic is Back with a Stronger, Sharper, & More Focused on Global Impact forumNordic.com has relaunched in a streamlined, powerful format designed for one purpose: to give Nordic...
VTT – Summer news about their Innovations
CaSE: Hypermine: aiming to maximise mineral recovery & minimise environmental impact Hypermine, a spinout of VTT, has announced the successful closure of its seed funding round. With demand for...
Medical Robots form the Nordics are Marching into the Clinic and Hospitals
As summer approaches readers will know that the Nordics go off to enjoy sunshine, forests, sea, mountains, and lakes. The annual trek has already started - brains and bodies will be rested because...
Do traditional communication channels achieve international visibility for Nordic companies?
All Innovative Nordic companies and scientific bodies want and need international visibility – exports are essential but getting the innovations out into the markets is increasingly challenging....
Revisiting COVID‑19 – Have Lessons from Nordics Been Learnt?
During the COVID‑19 pandemic, Nordic countries exhibited relatively low mortality despite divergent policies. Denmark, Finland, and Norway recorded minimal excess deaths compared to reference...
America’s Democratic Drift: Why the Nordics Should Be Concerned
By Nicholas Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, forumNordic In an increasingly interconnected world, the stability of the United States—economically, politically, and morally—has long served as a...
Innovative Breakthrough in the Fight Against Chlamydia
Chlamydia trachomatis is the world’s most prevalent bacterial sexually transmitted infection, with over 130 million new cases reported globally each year. Despite this staggering figure, current...
Revolutionary 3D Bioprinting Breakthrough Inside the Human Body
A groundbreaking advancement in medical science is unfolding through the development of a 3D printer designed to operate inside the human body. This innovation, led by Professor Stina Simonsson and...
Help the World Discover Nordic Innovation — Send Us Your News
Nordic innovations shape the future of sustainability, health, digital technology, and energy—yet few outside our region ever hear about them. A comprehensive 2024 study by forumNordic revealed a...
Bonalive: Finnish Innovation Tackling Global Infection Crisis
Exploring Bonalive's Breakthrough Products, Research, Global Reach, and Financial Growth 1. Products: An Antibiotic-Free Solution to a Global Threat Bonalive, a biomedical company founded in 2009 in...
Kalevala Koru: Great Nordic Innovation from a Legacy of Culture, Craftsmanship, and Community
It all started with the Kalevala Women’s Association, one of the guardians of the Finnish heritage, a great example of how Nordic women are fully integrated into society and business. They were...
Home Street Home & Kalevala Training Center: A Beacon of Sustainable Empowerment in Kenya
In the heart of Kenya's Kwale County, a remarkable story of innovation and compassion is unfolding. It's the story of Home Street Home (HSH) and the Kalevala Training Center (KTC), two entities...
Corti’s Team Implements AI Solutions that Boost Healthcare Efficiency Big Time!
Corti, a Danish artificial intelligence company, is revolutionizing the healthcare industry with its specialized AI solutions designed to enhance patient care and streamline medical...
Without free speech innovation fades – but not in Nordics, here’s why…
Innovation thrives when scientific research thrives. Scientific research thrives when there is a big pool of well-educated people nurtured in schools and universities thrive where people think,...
Denmark’s Fuse Vectors ApS Develops Innovative Gene Therapy by manufacturing DNA or RNA Sequences
Fuse Vectors, a pioneering biomanufacturing company based in Denmark, is at the forefront of innovations that address some of the most pressing challenges in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals....
Innovestor Group’s Strategic Investments in Capalo AI and Life Sciences Startups
Innovestor Group, founded in 2014, is a Finnish venture capital firm headquartered in Helsinki. Innovestor's approach combines venture capital funding with an online co-investment platform, enabling...
Tale of Two Cities – Global Innovations at Joensuu’s Photonics & Gothenburg’s Chalmers University of Technology
Joensuu, Finland, and Gothenburg, Sweden, are renowned university cities fostering innovation through dynamic ecosystems that bridge academia and industry. Both cities have cultivated spin-off...
Nordic Innovations in Ultrasound for Brain Disorders
The Nordic region coninues medical research in the development of ultrasound-based technologies for diagnosing and treating brain disorders. Two pioneering projects in Iceland and one in Finland are...