Biopeople

Biopeople – Denmark's Life Science Cluster is a publicly funded partnership and National Center established, authorized and funded by the Ministry for Science and Higher Education. It is located at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Biopeople helps academia and industry create and develop ideas together into new projects, products and services for the benefit of global health and welfare, stimulating innovation by bringing researchers and stakeholders together across disciplines, sectors and public-private boundaries.

Biopeople

Founded at	University of Copenhagen
Type	Publicly fund
Purpose	Global health and welfare

Biopeople was the first European cluster organisation within health and life sciences to receive the recognition of Gold Label of the European Cluster Excellence Initiative (ECEI).

Structure

Member companies and affiliates include Novo Nordisk, Lundbeck, LEO Pharma, Danisco, Novozymes, Chr. Hansen, and many small and medium enterprises.

See also

• Clinical trial
• Contract Research Organization
• Drug development
• Drug design
• Drug discovery
• Functional beverage
• Health claims on food labels
• Medical food, specially formulated foods to treat diseases with distinctive nutritional needs (e.g., an inability to metabolize a common molecule)
• Nutraceuticals
• Nutrigenomics
• Preventive medicine

References

• Netmatch [1]
• Ministry for Higher Education and Science [2]

External links

• Official website
• Ministry of Higher Education and Science