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In the autumn of 2025, the Lev Skönare team (an enterprise run by the ISB Group) was invited to Norlandia Elder Care’s annual management conference to present our concept. We are now launching Hälsoresan (“Health Journey“) – a development project for approximately 2,400 employees of Norlandia Äldreomsorg – for the first time with digital support and AI.

Norlandia is the first in the world to offer all employees a digital health twin, developed by Associate Professor Gunnar Cedersund at Linköping University. The twin collects and visualizes health data on organs, metabolism, and the immune system, linked to lifestyle, and inspires small, sustainable changes based on scientific evidence.

During the conference, we demonstrated the app and the project plan, emphasizing that all personal data is fully protected and only anonymized summaries can be viewed by the company.

Discussions with managers were important: some were cautiously skeptical, while others welcomed the focus on small, everyday health habits such as walking, gradual changes in diet and exercise, and long-term sustainability. The goal is to give all employees the opportunity, step by step, to have more energy, feel joy, and foster well-being in their everyday lives.

In August, 4 people from ISB group were in Copenhagen to participate in the “Nordic Ooc/MPS summer workshop”. MPS stands for Microphysiological Systems, and it is another name for experimental models such as organoids, spheroids, organs-on-a-chip, etc. We have been working together with AstraZeneca to develop digital twins for such models for many years, and for this reason we were invited to give two(!) keynote presentations at this event.

The first keynote was held jointly by Oscar Silfvergren from our side, and Liisa Vilén at AstraZeneca. Liisa leads their MPS team, and she and Oscar work tightly regarding modelling, planning of new experiments, etc. They gave a presentation on their collaboration and on the recently submitted project manuscript on multi-scale and multi-species, mechanistic models for MPS and exenatide.

Apart from this, Gunnar Cedersund gave the morning and opening keynote for the second half of the workshop: a hackathon on digital twins for MPS. This second half was a whole-day event to learn the basics of what digital twins are, why they are useful (in medicine, drug development, and for MPS), and also the basics on how to do such digital twin models, via a hands-on computer lab. All participants (38 signed up Ph.D. students and researchers), also had the option of bringing their own data, and getting started on a new project regarding the creation of a model for their own research data and question. Quite a few participants made use of this possibility, and several new collaborations and modelling projects were born during this event.

On the whole, this was a fun, interesting, and useful event arranged by the Nordic network for Organs-on-a-chip, the EU project Open Mind, and their eminent coordinator Jenny Emneus.

How do we prepare for future health challenges before challenges turn into problems? On October 14, Sweden’s leading experts and researchers bring together medical, psychological, technological and societal perspectives for an inspiring and dynamic afternoon on strategies for preventive healthcare. ISB Group leader and AI expert Gunnar Cedersund together with Sweden’s foremost health guru Johan Holmäster will be presenting medical digital twins that motivate, prevent risks and show the way towards a healthier society.

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I actually made a mistake in the last post, saying that that lecture – at Öredev, Malmö, Sweden – was the third and last invited lecture that week. There was actually a fourth one upcoming: in China. This time it was at an international workshop on Digital therapeutics, i.e. eHealth and apps. It was largely focused on existing technologies, i.e. not only scientists were there, but also a lot of companies with products already on the markt, as well as the Food and Drug Administration, from the US. My lecture was given online, but a partner of mine went over there in person, to also have physical meetings, and to also help set up meetings in the New York/Boston area, to which I am travelling in the end of the month.

So – four invited presentations in one week, in four different cities, across two continents. I think that is actually a personal record 🙂

#digitaltwins #STRATIF-AI #lectures #lifeofascientist

Today I, Gunnar Cedersund, am giving a lecture on digital twins in the beautiful city of Malå, up in the North of Sweden. The lecture is part of a week they have on the potential of AI in our evolving societies. Today’s event starts with a lecture on AI, then I talk about our digital twins, and finally there will be a panel debate, where also some politicians participate. Here is a link to the event, which I think is only attendable in person, even though my lecture and participation will be done via teams.

Welcome! 🙂

Gunnar