Symcel Employee Directory

Biotechnology ResearchStockholm, Sweden51-200 Employees

Symcel is a biotechnology research company based in Solna, in the Stockholm region of Sweden, with its operations anchored at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. The firm develops tools for cell and microbial research that enable rapid, sensitive, and automated detection of metabolic activity, even in complex samples. Its approach relies on measuring heat produced by living cells to provide growth-based, label-free, non-destructive readouts that reveal responses to treatments before conventional methods. The company collaborates with leading academic institutions, therapy developers, test laboratories, and industry partners worldwide.

Its applications include rapid sterility testing for pharmaceuticals and cell therapies, rapid microbial testing for consumer goods and industrial formulations, and biofilm analysis in infection, antimicrobial, and materials studies. The company serves researchers in clinical microbiology, food microbiology, environmental and microbiome studies, and eukaryotic cell research, including metabolic activity studies in cancer, adipose, and embryo models. In March 2026, Symcel announced a collaboration with BioSurface Technologies Corporation to enable integrated workflows for studying surface-attached biofilms using the calScreener biocalorimetry platform.

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