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GIC ACQUISITION Jens Nielsen ELEKTA HAS ACQUIRED PROKNOW SYSTEMS IN ORDER TO EXPAND ITS OFFERING OF CLOUD-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR ADVANCED RADIATION THERAPY. ITH PROKNOW’S PRODUCTS, such as ProKnow DS, Elekta’s AWA RD customers will have access to cloud-based, treatment planning analytics to standardize their practices, it states. ProKnow DS allows collective data from patient groups to be analyzed and offers big data support to oncology teams. The solution can also streamline workflow challenges and improve contouring accuracy and treatment plan quality. The technology is vendor-agnostic and is used today by healthcare networks with a variety of treatment planning systems. THIS YEAR’S ARVID CARLSSON AWARD BY SAHLGRENSKA SCIENCE PARK WENT TO PROFESSOR JENS NIELSEN. S 12 INCE 2017, SAHLGRENSKA SCIENCE PARK has awarded the Arvid Carlsson Award every year in September. The aim is to pay tribute to innovation, knowledge and competence, in conjunction with good entrepreneurship, through an award in Nobel Prize winner Arvid Carlsson’s name. One of last year’s prize winners, Kristina Lagerstedt, 1928 Diagnostics, passed the prize on at a ceremony at the Park Annual life science event. The award was accepted on Jens Nielsen’s behalf by Florian David, Assistant Professor at Chalmers. “I am deeply honored to receive the Arvid Carlsson Award by Sahlgrenska Science Park. Throughout my scientific career I have always been interested in entrepreneurship and making sure that our research could find applications in society,” said Jens Nielsen via a link from Copenhagen. The winner of Arvid Carlsson Award by Sahlgrenska Science Park 2019 is highly recognized NORDICLIFESCIENCE.ORG internationally within his field. Jens Nielsen’s research, which is focused on systems biology, modeling of metabolism, and metabolic engineering of cell factories, has created breakthrough opportunities for the industry. He is a professor at Chalmers University of Technology, where he founded the Department of Biology and Biological Engineering. He leads a group of more than 60 researchers. He is also Chief Scientific Officer at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark. Since February 2019, Jens Nielsen has been Director of the BioInnovation Institute in Copenhagen. He is also the cofounder of Metabogen, a gut microbiota company, and Elypta, a cancer diagnostic company. “He is a role model in translating fundamental research into innovation and an inspiration within entrepreneurship,” says Marianne Dicander Alexandersson, Chairman, Sahlgrenska Science Park and the award jury. Richard Hausmann, CEO, Elekta “This strategic acquisition supports our Elekta Digital initiative and will contribute to accelerating our big data and artificial intelligence efforts as we help healthcare providers to improve decision support, identify best practices and ensure a high quality of care. The solutions that ProKnow brings are especially well-suited to many of our large customers and their need for data management, analytics and workflow automation across their oncology networks,” says Richard Hausmann, CEO, Elekta. PHOTO JOHAN BODELL