Delivering drugs with small devices

There are many challenges to overcome when delivering a drug orally. Getting the drug to survive the low pH of the ventricle and being released at the correct site in the gastrontestinal tract are two of them.

Nya resultat om immunförsvarets reaktion vid svår covid-19

Forskare har identifierat flera celltyper som är centrala vid immunförsvarets reaktion vid covid-19.

Marie Gårdmark: Do EMA and FDA talk to each other?

Of course they do! The collaboration started already in 2003, writes Marie Gårdmark in a column.

Maja Johansson blir chef för nya vaccinanläggningen i Umeå

Sedan en månad tillbaka är Maja Johansson ny site manager för Diamyd Medicals nya tillverkningsenhet i Umeå.

Samuel Lagercrantz: Framgången kommer efter många misslyckanden

De allra flesta av de idéer och strategier mot covid-19 som man nu jobbar med kommer att gå i stöpet, men det kan räcka med att en enda fungerar, skriver Samuel Lagercrantz.

Swedish Healthtech Company 1928 Pushing Forward

The full service analytics platform is expanding the business.

Giulia Gaudenzi: ”Key lessons from global health research”

The world will still face major challenges in the post Covid-19 pandemic, writes Giulia Gaudenzi at the KTH Division of Nanobiotechnology at Scilifelab, in a column.

Helena Strigård: The rise of the community

Sweden Bio´s CEO is looking back at the last decade of development in the industry. Something has shifted in the interdependence between small and larger companies.

Pilots want to live too

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

Upcoming event: New updates on drugs

At Medicon Valley Alliance venues in Copenhagen/Örestad April 1 2020 the meeting New updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability takes place for the for the eighth time.

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.

A world-class research village

Eight years ago, Medicon Village was set up in Lund. Since then, this hub for research, innovation and business has developed enormously, and today the life science village is home to over 150 organisations, employing more than 2,200 people.

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.

Björn Arvidsson: Osjälviska aktörer framgångsrika i ekosystemen

“Berusad” efter att ha deltagit i eventet Uppsala Life som samlade 300 deltagare i Uppsala-regionen för att diskutera förutsättningar för framgångsrik life science har jag några viktiga reflektioner.

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.

”Sverige klarar tillverkningen”

I Matfors bygger Cobra Biologics två unika tillverkningssviter för storskalig GMP-tillverkning av ATMP-produkter. Kontraktstillverkaren rustar för att möta den ökade efterfrågan och för att behålla tillverkningen i Sverige.