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Dermatological Investigations Scandinavia (DIS)

Clinical investigations for the personal care and cosmetics industry. Dermatological Investigations Scandinavia (DIS) is a hospital based contract research organization (CRO) offering specialized services within clinical research etc. DIS offers specific volunteer panels, relevant for the investigation in question, for instance volunteers with known contact allergies to specific perfume ingredients etc. Studies are designed according to GCP and GLP guidelines. We offer evaluation of sponsor specific study designs and can recommend the optimal study design to perform. We provide publications and expert assessments. DIS is a spin-off CRO from the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in collaboration with Odense University Hospital (OUH) with the purpose to provide and develop safe and reliable human in vivo solutions for product and ingredient testing to the personal care and cosmetics industry.

Tartu Biotechnology Park

Tartu Biotechnology Park was established in December 2001. TBP provides excellent physical infrastructure as well as business development and consultancy services to companies and R&D institutions in the fields of biotechnology, medicine and veterinary medicine. It supports companies in finding cooperation partners and is active in the establishment process of new companies. From September 2005 TBP runs the BioMed Incubator for biotechnology, medical and veterinary businesses. The incubator aims to support the formation and sustainable development of enterprises with grow potential.

Tampere Life Science Center

Tampere has a combination of multi-disciplinary, technological, bio-medical and medical expertise in education, research, healthcare and business sectors. In recent years, the health, wellness and biotechnology sector in the Tampere region has been the fastest growing in Finland and received the largest number of private investments in business development. The region’s wellness and health technology cluster provides some 30,000 jobs.For a presentation of the Tampere Life Science Center please follow the link below. For a presentation of BioMedTech, please see: http://biomeditech.fi/home.php