Anna Stenstam’s Post

#Sepawa 2024 A mix of old and new. Of course, meeting with old clients talking about new challenges. But also listening to academic friends I haven’t met for over 20 years, feeling pretty comfortable still with SAXS data Michael Gradzielski and listening to “old” physical chemistry in new regulatory settings (than you Joachim Venzmer and Bernat Pi for your work with CESIO). I got to meet what has grown beyond professional friends... Coralie Alonso 😍 and danced with some who might be. Amd did what I love to do, connected a supplier with a potential buyer, connecting a promising start-up with an ambitious and courageous established company (again, I don't dare to mention you but if you feel comfortable to tag yourselves, you know who you are...). 💚 But mainly I reflect over the new conversations provided when new people ask a new type of questions. This year, I got to experience SEPAWA together with my new colleague Veronica Sköld. We have different pasts, different perspectives and the conversations spurred by her curiosity gave me new learnings and perspectives.  I have gone to SEPAWA and been working with the industry for so many years it was refreshing to be part of what happened when she asked her questions “Why?” and “but, why?” 😊 And then there was the party! Finally I also joined the after party and danced for hours. Dancing, that will never be old. ❤️ Thank you all organizers for a great organization and all I got to talk to for your openness towards CR Competence AB, what we want to do and who we are.

#SEPAWA here I come (via Copenhagen and Hamburg obviously)! After many years I have the privilege of being on my way towards both new learnings and connections as well as what has become old friends. It is a beautiful day on the train (but Deutche Bahn please step up the coffee service) and I have time to think… already worth the early morning. If you are at SEPAWA and we have not yet booked when to meet for a chat, a hug, solving a problem or sharing a pretzel, just reach out! 🥨

Free webinar on what keeps us together - the skin barrier! Enamul Mojumdar, live streamed Thursday Oct 24 at 2pm CET. 👇 It needs to keep stuff out. It needs to keep things in. We want to use it to get things in..... and we nourish it but also expose it to UV, dry or humid conditions. It is part of our largest organ, don't you wonder how it is structured? What does the lipids and proteins do there? How can we use that understanding to guide production of skin products or topical formulations, to make animal-free models? #skin #topical #dermatology #personalcare #pharma #BioPhysicalChemistry

I'm very happy about this and know I will be very challenged.... Welcome Veronica, you have already proven you are both courageous and very curious by joining us so I'm going to do my best to be on par with you!

I am incredibly proud. I am incredibly proud that I get to sign a continuation of a collaboration agreement with this amazing company. Both companies are amazing, really, in our different ways. And we are good for each other. The very small CR and the giant P&G. Through this partnership, CR can have an impact: our understanding can reach further, and our suggestions get to be tried. Through this, our capacity is scaled up. I am also proud of this visit and how it - I think - oozed of CR identity. I’m proud of my team: Enamul, Marta, Henrik, Olivia, Tobias who all gave short introductions to different discussions. Thank you, Dora, Carmina, Roberto, Jonas and Frida for your engagement and presence, for cakes and flower arrangements. Thank you, Jonas Birgersson and Pia Kinhult, for helping us see beyond ourselves and the present. Thank you, Grand Hotel i Lund, for those crazy herring plates. Thank you, dear husband, for opening up your vinyl record store at a late hour. Thank you, Tommy Nylander, for joining the party. Thank you, Pete and Lee Ellen, for dedicating this time. And here’s a Limerick (not a song this time): To Lund there came two more who combined a lab with a store ‘cause vinyl is such used for so much if we made it “bio” we’d score! CR Competence AB ❤️ Procter & Gamble #impact

📣 Last minute reminder: THURSDAY Oct 10 Marta Gubitosi from CR Competence AB gives a FREE WEBINAR on DLS, dynamic light scattering and how to use it right! There are so many ways to use this deceivingly simple method and get bad data, don't do that. Don't work with bad data. 🍎 It is live streamed so be there or be square... #DLS #lightscattering #particlesize #formulations #drugdelivery #stability

I'm leaving Singapore with a heart filled with gratitude towards what I have been exposed to, seen, learned and to the people here who have helped me with new perspectives. My sister Karin asked what my "three words of Singapore" would be. They are: 🇸🇬 Surprise. I knew there was much I didn't know, but I have been constantly surprised by how much I have thought I knew, how much I had prejudiced thoughts around and how my perspective is so overwhelmingly western. 🇸🇬 Energy. Reclaimed land. Multination land. Teams that are "win today" and "invent tomorrow", that are composed of people who seem to interpret the phrase "not invented here" as positive... :) Elderly taxi drivers who fill the whole transfer to the airport with history lessons injected with future purpose and new ambitions. ❤️ and Love. Because it is here my sister is, my daughter has found a home away from home and I got to be with them for a week. I've had 14 meetings, I've met with people my team at CR Competence AB might get the chance to work with on new important challenges, and I've met with people we have indeed worked with but never met in person until now. There is a large geographical distance, but Sweden-Singapore is a good combo :) Thank you all who helped make this possible (no names mentioned because I don't know where the red tape goes. If you want to tag yourselves, you are very welcome 💕).

📢 OCTOBER 10, it is time for the second webinar of the "Quality by Understanding" series, in which we explore #scientific topics of #business relevance. This time, Marta Gubitosi will focus on information extracted from light scattering and in particular with DLS, of great value for formulated products. The "Quality by Understanding" series consists of free webinars organized by CR Competence AB with educational purposes across various scientific topics. Here is the upcoming program: 🍎 QbU Scattering Techniques - Part 2: Light Scattering / 10th October 2024 🍎 QbU Skin barrier and interactions - basic understanding / 24th October 2024 🍎 QbU Biosensors - an introduction / 21th November 2024 You can read the details about the webinar by following the link to the event. ✍ Remember to sign-up by following the Teams link included in the event.

Reminder: the first webinar on #scattering techniques is tomorrow, it is live streamed and you cannot get it afterwards. We want you to be there, attentive and taking the opportunity to ask questions directly to Marta Gubitosi. Registration through Teams, link below.