22 Oct 2009
UCLA looking for partnerships in Scandinavia
As part of an ongoing effort to find new universities for its Global Partnerships Program, David Lundberg of UCLA:s California NanoSystems Institute spent two days in the Øresund region, learning more about what Danish and Swedish nanoscience can bring to the table.
The California NanoSystems Institute, CNSI, is a unit at the University of California, Los Angeles, built to host nanoscientists working on new projects. New being a key word since one criteria is that the projects must be new forms of collaborations - between scientists from differents disciplines or between researchers and companies.
The research carried out at CNSI covers a broad spectrum of areas, with a particular focus on bio-medical applications such as drug delivery systems, and toxicology. The building itself contains lab facilities for some 100 scientists, as well as an incubator and a Technology Transfer Office.
David Lundberg is director of global partnerships and has spent the last three years establishing partnerships with universities in Japan, South Korea and other parts of the world. His trip to Scandinavia was a result of a new focus on finding interesting partners for collaboration in Europe.
Nano Connect Scandinavia hosted a visit to DTU, Lund University and Øresund University. Project manager Johan Borgström, together with the NCS project coordinators, gave an overview of Scandinavian nanoscience. David Lundberg found a number of areas interesting and the parties decided to keep investigating the possibilities for future cooperation.