Tech Girl of the Year Marina Peltonen all set for a SweDeliver summer internship

SweDeliver can today present Marina Peltonen – recently named Tech Girl of the Year by Microsoft – as one of the five highly promising master's students we have offered the opportunity to a Summer Internship in our international industrial network. Marina is currently combining studies at Lund University's Master's Programme in Biomedicine with the final year of the Master of Science Programme in Engineering Nanoscience at the LTH Faculty of Engineering.

“A friend at Uppsala University told me about SweDeliver and the opportunity to do an internship in an industry-focused environment. When I learned more about the center's interdisciplinary collaboration between academia and industry, it immediately caught my interest as I bring an interdisciplinary background and am convinced that this is the most efficient route to innovative solutions responding directly to the challenges of the pharmaceutical industry.”

Marina Peltonen will conduct her summer internship at Iconovo, a Swedish innovative company that, at the heart of Lund's Medicon Village, develops state-of the-art inhalation devices for licensing to customers. Here, a research project awaits with a focus on a new UV spectrophotometer for the analysis of biomolecules, a challenge that also includes the development of analytical methods and the mixing of dry powder formulations for analysis.

“I hope to develop my technical skills, learn new methods and get a practical overview of what I am currently studying within the frameworks of my education. Of course, I also look forward to meeting potential mentors who can provide guidance along my way towards a more independent research role, as well as the opportunity to establish professional networks that will hopefully strengthen my career opportunities within life sciences.”

The internship at Iconovo will be Marina’s fourth consecutive laboratory summer after spending last year as a research scholar at Cologne's Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging. In 2022, the Amgen Scholars Program invited Marina to, as the first Swedish student ever, conduct her own research project at Zurich's prestigious Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, a work that was recently awarded The Hamrin Foundation Scholarship, and as early as in 2021, Marina carried out a summer research project at Lund University.

“These are all incredible experiences that have provided values for life. That SweDeliver this summer will give me the opportunity to take the step from institute to industry will be of great help in defining my future research interests and provide important inspiration for the next step in my career. A year before graduation, I am convinced that the answers to many healthcare challenges lie at the intersection of engineering and medicine sciences, which is also the niche I will likely pursue for doctoral studies.”

Text: Magnus Alsne, photo: private