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The inspiration behind Testa Center

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is a combination of what

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the biotech entrepreneurial company

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can do together with the industry

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muscles from a large company.

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[Lotta Ljungqvist, CEO, Testa Center]
Testa Center is a major initiative within

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the Swedish government and Cytiva. It opened in 2018.

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It supports growth of

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the life science industry,

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both biology innovations.

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technology and digital innovations.

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[Jesper Hedberg, Director, Testa Center]
The purpose of Testa Center is to make

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possible for small research groups and

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small companies to verify the innovation.

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So we're a nonprofit organization that

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provides a production-like environment

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for test runs of products and procedures.

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[Kevin Seaver, Cytiva]
The Testa Center is a place

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that allows our customers to come

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in and develop their products.

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We're able to use automation and digital

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platform and coupled with Rockwell Automation

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to be able to improve their

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process and allow them to develop their

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products faster and more efficiently.

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[Hedberg:] Typically our clients here in

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Testa Center are spearhead research groups

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from the academia or startup companies on

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the verge of scaling up their process.

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So we enable them to do that to reach the

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tipping point and to be able to validate

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their production for full scale.

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The silent revolution within personalized

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healthcare that we have around us

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today is making things possible that

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was not possible to do five years ago.

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[Ljungqvist:] The future of medicine is combining

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new technologies and innovations

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into more precision treatment.

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That's something we call precision

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medicine or personalized medicine.

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You can get treated without side effects

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and also more efficiently and quicker.

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During the past three years,

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roughly 35 different projects

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have been in Testa Center.

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They have moved their manufacturing

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processes to larger scale.

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They've been able to access

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the technology and own

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the expertise of manufacturing themselves.

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They have been able to raise more

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funding because they de-risk the project.

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[Hedberg:] If we look at biological production,

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we need innovations from everywhere

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to be able to do this

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faster and cheaper.

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So of course biological innovations,

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but also material science,

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digital innovation,

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technological innovation and much more.

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In here in Testa Center, we

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enable researchers to verify their

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innovations to reach the market faster.

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[Seaver:] It really all starts with the patient.

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for Cytiva. We really have to understand

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that we're changing people's lives.

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We're able to provide equipment

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and products and services to our

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customers that are developing

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lifesaving drugs for these patients.

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So we not only work in the industrial

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manufacturing space, with

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good manufacturing processes,

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but we also work in the

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P.D. space, so process development.

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So right from the laboratories all the

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way up until the full manufacturing,

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we have automation that transfers from

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the lab and transfers all the way up

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into scales up through the different

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spaces into manufacturing. As we designed

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our control system and our products,

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we designed them to be extremely

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flexible so that customers have

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the option of making one therapy,

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and then being able to pivot to

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another therapy extremely quickly.

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[Ljungqvist:] The combination of biotech companies

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with a more entrepreneurial spirit

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together with the industry is a way to

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move and advance innovations quicker.

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The combination of Cytiva's expertise

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in technology for biopharmaceuticals

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and Rockwell's expertise in automation

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brings together these tools to advance

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the new technologies and new medicines.

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[Seaver:] Rockwell has continued to expand

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their IToT platform.

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They continue to expand broader

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in the industry,

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not only in controls and automation,

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but also in data collection

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and analytics and so forth,

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and we're able to utilize all those

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benefits that they're developing.

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They're developing these products,

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they're developing these processes

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that Cytiva can use,

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and they're the experts in

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a lot of these areas,

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we can bring our expertise together for

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the better good of our industry.

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[Hedberg:] Ultimately,

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the goal is to provide better

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health globally through quality,

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speed and cost effectiveness.

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[Ljungqvist:] When we collaborate,

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when we do things together,

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we can do dramatic changes and

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improvements to help humankind.