Krönika: Collaboration across borders

Drug development creates new challenges for regulators

Swedish and Danish Life Science – are there still untapped synergies?

With the increasing developments in life sciences over the past decade and strong support for the sector’s strategic importance from both the Sweden and Danish governments, the timing of The Future of Swedish & Danish Life Science conference could

Coordination of world-class research facilities

Four unique world-class research facilities are located just a few hours apart. Properly utilised, a Nordic centre for world-leading life science innovation and research could become a reality. Kajsa M Paulsson is the project leader for HALOS, driving the idea forward.

Krönika: Can regulators keep up with innovation?

New technology has increased the understanding of disease mechanisms and enabled approval of products targeting small but specific patient populations; sometimes referred to as precision medicine. Gene- and cell therapies have reached the market, exemplified by CAR-T cells, and the research pipeline is promising. In addition, the medical device field is constantly growing creating new solutions to address patient needs.

Brexit looking back and looking forward

More than 3 years have passed after the vote and there is still uncertainty around the outcome although the UK December 12 election set a clearer course towards an exit early 2020.

Engage with your CMO early

Gordon Hutton is Materials Science Lead at Thermo Fisher Scientific’s, formerly GSK, small molecule API site in Cork, Ireland.

"Att välja en CMO är som att ingå ett äktenskap"

Välj partner omsorgsfullt och ta kontakt tidigt var två slutsatser från mötet Pharma Outsourcing.

From spin-off to phase II

”The people there will basically become your new colleagues” – Carina Schmidt, former CEO of Athera, about working with different contractors.

Before you choose a CRO

– We are a small company and it is very important for us to maintain our core competence within development of novel nanomaterials, Tove Sivik Sonne, Head of Development at Spago Nanomedical says.

Pharma-on-Demand

Make or buy? That is the question that the pharma world has been asking more and more in the last couple of decades. Pernille Hemmingsen is moderator at Pharma Outsourcing Dec 10th i Stockholm. This is her thoughts about outsourcing.

Blodigt samarbete - för tronen och fler blodgivare

Ett oväntat samarbete för att få fler att ge blod.

Meet the governmental life science office

More clinical trials, promotion for digitisation and interoperability together with increased use of data generated by both healthcare and individuals. The duties of the Life Sciences office are plentiful.

How to become globally competitive

Here Gunilla Osswald from BioArctic share her experience of scaling up and be competative on the global arena.

The perfect formula for decision-making

No one has the luxury not to take a decision, writes Helena Strigård at Swedenbio.

Förkylningsspray i stor studie

Första patienterna inkluderade i stor placebokontrollerad studie där munspray testas mot förkylning.

They’re all doing it – buying drug research

December 12 the time has come for this year's annual partnering meeting Pharma Outsourcing in Stockholm. In Sweden this is a growing business, with Recipharm as the biggest CRMO of the country.

They’re all doing it – buying drug research

It is not easy to navigate the complex infrastructure for drug development in Sweden, where various contract players exist alongside the pharmaceutical companies.

640 miljoner till forskningsprojekt

Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse har beviljat totalt 640 miljoner kronor till 22 forskningsprojekt varav flera inom medicin som bedöms ha möjlighet att leda till framtida vetenskapliga genombrott.

Dubbdäck tar fler liv än de räddar

Dubbarna river upp asfalt, vilket skördar fler liv än dubbarna räddar, enligt en ny studie inom ramen för programmet Mistra Environmental Nanosafety.

Opinion: Where do all the cool Swedish life science companies go?

It’s puzzling why Swedish life science companies hardly get a mention alongside Spotify, Skype, Klarna, King, iZettle, and other cool, innovative and successful ‘startups’ founded in Sweden.

Lucka 17 - Titta vem som finns här

Det lackar mot jul och det vill vi uppmärksamma tillsammans med er. Varje dag fram till jul får vi här veta vad profiler i life science-världen har på sin önskelista.

Läkemedelsbolag ratar Trump

Flera tunga ledare har lämnat Donald Trumps industriråd i protest mot presidentens svaga agerande i samband med kravallerna i amerikanska Charlottesville. Tydligast har avhoppet av läkemedelsjätten Mercks vd Kenneth Fraizer märkts.

Swedish life science in political focus

It feels like 2017 will be a good year for Swedish life science, says Anders Blanck, CEO at LIF.