at AstraZeneca Gothenburg, Sweden

End of June, 2020

As a comment to the subtitle ”The challenge”, one can easily state that the entire 2020 has been a challenge and that probably none of us ever will remember the year of the worldwide corona pandemic as an uncomplicated year.

But here we are in 2018-2019 and still oblivious to what is about to hit the world. AstraZeneca‘s R & D centre, that previously moved from Lund in the south of Sweden to Gothenburg, built in 2018 extra storeys specifically dedicated to research. The company envisioned two 3D-rooms where researchers could understand molecules by interacting with molecular models in 3D.

NANCO, who already in early 2000 had installed a 3D-projector and 3D-glasses in Lund and subsequently moved the setup to Gothenburg, was entrusted to install both rooms. With hindsight and the oncoming circumstances of endangered world health in mind, the more opportune the installation at this biomedical company, where vital research and clinical testing lead to the development of much needed medicine, seems to be.

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