IBA receives FMBA order for proton therapy equipment

LinkMed’s portfolio company ONCOlog Medical partner, IBA, has received an order for their proton therapy equipment from the Federal Medico-Biological Agency (FMBA) in Russia.

IBA claims that the order includes a fully PatLog system, which will be the first gantry-equipped Proton Therapy center installed in Russia at value circa SEK10m.

IBA will deliver the proton therapy equipment including PatLog system from ONCOlog Medical to Federal High-Tech Medical Center in Dimitrovgrad, Russia.

The PatLog approach of out-of-treatment room set up and smooth transportation of the patient between different imaging devices and treatment rooms, will highly improve the patient throughput in large radiotherapy clinics, at the same time as the treatment accuracy, patient comfort and clinical efficiency will be better, IBA said.

LinkMed has two business areas, a commercial transplantation sector business with two subsidiaries and a venture portfolio comprising life science companies.