News
Nov 20, 2011
At the ICI Meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, December 4-6 Arterion will pressent their business case at the ICI Innovation Award.
Take the oportunity to meet with CEO Karl Richard Nilsson and to see and feel the cellulose grafts Arterion are developing.
Sep 14, 2011
Arterion is one of the presenting companies at Göteborgs Kapitalmarknadsdag on September 15. Arterion will present at 16:30 but will be represented during the entire event.
Mar 12, 2011
Om March 10 Arteiron’s shareholders appointed Johan Westman as the new chairman of the board. Johan began his career in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry in 1987, working for Steridose in Gothenburg Sweden in project management and sales of aseptically designed systems. In 1995, he moved to NovAseptic AB, Sweden, starting as Sales Manager, then spending three years as manager for the US American subsidiary and finally holding the position of Manager and CEO of the entire company in 2001. Since Millipore acquired NovAseptic in 2005, Johan took the position of VP Marketing of Millipore’s Advanced Manufacturing Solutions.
Feb 17, 2011
In January Arterion got it's first granted patent in South Africa. ZA Patent No. 2009/02973.
Feb 10, 2011
Arteiron will present at the In3 Europe conference in Paris, March 15, 2011.
More information about In3 Europe can be found at the conference webpage.
Feb 10, 2011
Arterion will present at the 12th MedTech Investing Europe Conference, March 7-8 2011 in Lausanne.
More info about the conference can be found at the conference webpage.
Dec 20, 2010
Arterion was awarded €35 000 from GöteborgBIO for the development of artificial vascular grafts. This development will be performed together with associate professor Carl Johan Franzén, Industrial Biotechnology at Chalmers
More info at GöteborgBIO's and Chalmers webpages.
Jun 30, 2010
Arterion is glad to announce the growth of the company as we welcome Mehrdad to the team. Mehrdad holds a PhD in microbiology and has held several QA-positions in the med-tech area. QA as well as process development will be two of Mehrdads main focus areas.
Feb 24, 2010
On March 1 at 20:00 (CET) and on March 6 at 13:50 there will be a story about Arterion's academic partners and their progress in developing artificial vascular grafts made from bacterial cellulose. The show is Vetenskapens Värld (in Swedish).
Feb 19, 2010
Arterion will present at the Translational Regenerative Medicine Foundation Venture Forum in Winston-Salem, NC, April 8, 2010.
As a selected presenter Arterion will talk about business opportunities for investors as well as collaboration opportunities for research partners and commercial partners.
Feb 11, 2010
Arterion have been rewarded the Medtech Investment Day Award 2010 having the the highest potential to become an international expanding medtech company.
Swedish Medtech had together with sponsors invited 22 companies who had the chance to pitch their companies towards an international group of investors. Arterion was the sole winner and the jury motivated their choice by explaining that Arterion has an elegant and innovative idea for a medical necessity and that Arterions's technology can be applied to many applications but today is focused on one. The jury also describe Arterion as an "enthusiastic and humble team with high competence".
As a prize, Arterion was awarded a one year membership with Swecare and SEK 50 000. Further information and comments by Arterion CEO Karl Richard Nilsson, see the links below.
May 1, 2009
Arterion welcomes the new Production Manager Kristoffer Drotz. Kristoffer's already has a deep insight and knowledge in bacterial cellulose and his earlier work includes e.g. Laboratory Manager att Arterion's academic research partner BBV.
Nov 11, 2008
Arterion were invited to speak at the 'From Discovery to Market'-workshop hosted by North Carolina Department of Commerce and Region Västra götaland, Sweden together with Virginia Tech, Wake Forest University and Piedmont Triad Research Park. The workshop took place on WFIRM, Winston-Salem, NC USA, November 4-5, 2008.
Oct 20, 2008
Arterion was awarded second prize in the national innovation competion SKAPA.
May 14, 2008
Arterion moves to Biotech Center at Arvid Wallgrens Backe 20.
Mar 12, 2008
Arterion was mentioned as one of Sweden's 33 most interesting startups in the papers Affärsvärlden and Ny Teknik.
Nov 29, 2007
Arterion was awarded 300 000 SEK from the Swedish Govermental Agency for Innovation Systems, Vinnova.
The prize is awarded as part of the VinnNu programme to fule the most promising innovations of Sweden.
Sep 12, 2007
An article about Arterion was published in GöteborgsPosten.
Jan 24, 2007
The research team behind Arterion's technology has been awarded 10 million SEK in govermental funding for research in the field of artificial vessels made of cellulose.
Jan 24, 2007
The innovators behind the Arterion technology has been the focus of an article published in NyTeknik nr 3.
Jan 17, 2007
Arterion moves to new facilities at Sahlgrenska Science Park.
Dec 16, 2006
Full paged story about Arterion in Biotech Sweden nr 11.
Dec 16, 2006
Arterion has been choosen as the "Best business potential 2006 at Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship and GIBBS"
May 29, 2006
Arterion was given 3rd prize in Venture Cup 2006. Venture Cup is a business plan competition with the objective to stimulate entrepreneurship and to increase the founding of new companies in Sweden. Anyone with an innovative concept who wants to start a business is welcome to participate in Venture Cup.
