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Intelligent wound dressing better for both patient and healthcare providers

A wound dressing that indicates when it should be changed. DryMax Sensor is the product of a meeting between a super-absorbent dressing and printed electronics. This innovative solution was developed by the company Absorbest with …

Computer vision – a fast and reliable superpower

With the advancing development of technologies based on artificial intelligence, new areas of use are emerging. Computer vision is one such area. The technology can assist people in several ways, who can instead devote themselves …

RISE offers expertise and testing to meet regulatory requirements for medical devices

The coronavirus pandemic and new EU regulations for medical devices have increased demand for RISE’s testing services, as many customers realise the benefits of having a flexible, knowledgeable testing partner here at home.

Individualised organs to be tested in patients

There is a lot of global interest in Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP). These products involve regenerative medicine, such as therapies targeting cells, genes, and tissues, all of which build or replace organs in the body…

3D structures facilitate the development of new cancer medicines

The human body is complex. Only five percent of cancer drugs used in clinical trials, that is, tested on patients, result in approved products. RISE develops new testing systems, and one of these involves 3D structures to improve …

Support for healthcare during the crisis

Within RISE, there is cutting-edge expertise that can serve as support for healthcare and its suppliers during the current crisis. We can offer support and advice in, among other things, drug production and drug development, medic…

Innovations to increase patient safety in healthcare

The newly launched project Clean Care addresses the urgent need to minimise healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and reduce the risk of spreading antimicrobial resistant microbes (AMR) within healthcare settings.

Smart packaging stops illegal drugs

A guarantee seal, a hologram and a special gluing process; these are the solutions designed as part of the RISE-managed Smedpack project with the aim of making pharmaceutical packaging safer and improving collaboration between var…

Personalised cancer treatment can be more effective

Treating cancer is difficult – and time is not on the patient’s side. In a new project, the patient’s own tumour tissue is used to identify personalised methods for striking back against cancer. “Today, it is generally only the c…

Strong, stronger, spun nanocellulose

It is strong, stiff, lightweight, renewable and can also absorb energy. The researchers at RISE and KTH call their Fibrillar nanocellulose (CNF) super-material one of the strongest bio-based material in the world. The material is …

Remote care increases quality of life for COPD patients

In collaboration with Karolinska University Hospital, the Swedish Heart and Lung Association and over 20 other organisations, RISE has developed a care method that makes the home a location for more active treatment for patients s…