Lund sökte mest statliga medel

Totalt 112 ansökningar om statliga medel för strategisk forskning har inkommit. Populärast är vårdforskning medan cancerforskning endast fått tre ansökningar.

Hansa Medical säljer utvecklingsprojekt

Ett bolag som grundats av life science-profilen Evy Lundgren-Åkerlund köper de fullständiga rättigheterna till Hansa Medicals broskprojekt.

Små gottegrisar förklaras biologiskt

Barns sug efter socker är medfött och avtar i takt med att vi slutar växa visar en ny studie.

Stopp för djurtestat smink

Idag, den 11 mars, träder EU-förbudet mot att sälja produkter som helt eller delvis har testats på djur. Men förbudet gäller bara vissa typer av produkter.

Fortsatt minus för Aerocrine

Omsättningen ökar men resultatet är fortsatt negativt för allergibolaget. Fjolårets kraftiga personalminskning sänker kostnaderna rejält för 2009, och målet är att visa positivt resultat nästa år.

Mot börsen med kassan full

Det norska cancerforskningsföretaget Algeta tar in 35 miljoner US-dollar för att fortsätta utvecklingen av sitt mest lovande cancerprojekt.

Teori om cancer och kromosomer fel

Längden på kromosomernas ändar, telomererna, har inget med uppkomsten av cancer att göra. Det visar en studie från Umeå universitet.

Almost 150 will leave Coloplast

The Danish medtech company Coloplast negotiates headcount reductions, with a total number of almost 150 employees.

Metabolic pro heads prefect post

The dean of the Department of Biomedicine at the Sahlgrenska Academy has appointed a new assistant prefect.

Dako appoints new CEO

The Danish cancer therapeutic company Dako has appointed a new CEO after Patrik Dahlén.

Medicult disclaims Swedish offer

The Norwegian company Medicult's Board is highly sceptical to the yesterday announced Vitrolife offer.

LEO Pharma - International Clinical Trial Manager

Crafoord Prize to an American and two Japanese

Today the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces the laureates of the Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis 2009.

Recipharm launches into biologics manufacturing

Recently a Swedish biomanufacturing facility transfers from Astrazeneca to Recipharm Biologics.

Medtech giant separates

Due to the global economic situation, the medtech companies Q-Med and the Palomar Medical Technologies has terminated its international agreement.

Mathematician new dean at DTU

On January 1st the Technical University of Denmark, DTU, got a new dean, recruited from the department of Mathematics.

Glucose facilitates the use of indigo

The Finnish researcher Anne Vuorema oat the MTT Agrifood Research Finland proves in her new doctoral dissertation that glucose can serve as a reducing agent of indigo.

New head of Vinnova

While waiting for a new gerenal-director, Vinnova has got a substitute general-director.

New management at Øresund

The Øresund University has recently appointed a new director and a new Chairman.

Martin Bergö: "The Idea is the Thing"

Martin Bergö, 38, goes wherever ideas take him - it's a process that has led to, and resulted from, plenty of unexpected results. Those ideas have been recognized as good ones: in 2008, he was awarded the Eric K. Fernström Foundation's Prize for young researchers. It isn't the first award for the Associate Professor at Gothenburg University's Sahlgrenska Academy. In 2007, he received a grant award of 16 million SEK from the European Research Council for his pioneering work.