This is the future location of the new national innovation cluster

Mölndal and Goco Health Innovation City will be the site of a new national innovation cluster for advanced therapies. The business community and the Swedish government are splitting the costs of the project, which is expected to produce new treatments

The first Lyme disease vaccine faces a delay

Pfizer and Valneva’s Lyme disease vaccine, which could be the first of its kind, is facing delays of about a year. The reason is problems at trial sites in the United States, which have forced the companies to drop half of the participants in an ongoing

“I am driven by the desire to develop a product that can be sold worldwide”

Ranked number one in the world by the WHO in diarrhoea research and soon in phase III studies for its vaccine candidate – Scandinavian Biopharma is rushing forward in the pursuit of the world’s first ETEC vaccine. Meet the company’s CEO Björn Sjöstrand.

Column: ”Cheating with pea flowers and does it matter whether you are right?”

Is it possible to forgive shortcuts or outright cheating in science - if it turns out that the researcher was ultimately right? Anna Törner discuss this topic in a column.

Editorial: ”AI that both impresses and frightens”

”In the past, I've rarely been particularly impressed by something that was produced by AI. But this is something completely different”, Samuel Lagercrantz writes in an editorial.

A green nursery for biotech rooted in the Scanian soil

Red Glead has established itself as one of Lund’s largest companies in pharmaceutical development. Life Science Sweden went to Skåne and met two of the founders, Johan Evenäs and Martina Kvist Reimer.

The pandemic caused a reshuffle among the world’s vaccine giants – here is the new top list

Fuelled by the pandemic, the power balance in the global vaccine market has completely changed in recent years, a survey from Fierce Pharma shows

Ny vd hos Index Pharmaceuticals

I januari 2023 får Index Pharmaceuticals en ny vd. Jenny Sundqvist efterträder Johan Giléus som varit tillförordnad vd sedan april i år.

Business Sweden’s new team is rolling out the blue-yellow carpet

According to Business Sweden’s life science team, the combination of substantial medical know-how and an ever-flourishing tech sector is a success factor for Sweden. “It’s a perfect storm, a beneficent, perfect storm,” says Programme Manager Britta Stenson.

Bought a tablet factory – and built his own empire

In 1995, Thomas Eldered was CEO of one of Pharmacia’s factories in the Stockholm area when the Swedish pharmaceutical giant, after a takeover, decided to move its production abroad. 34-year-old Thomas was facing an imminent risk of losing his job. However, instead, it actually turned out to be the starting point for one of the biggest success stories in Swedish life science.

Keyplants får stororder från Galderma

Keyplant ska bygga en life science-anläggning för Galderma i Uppsala, en order som för Keyplant är värd 75 miljoner euro, motsvarande cirka 787 miljoner kronor.

IVI’s Director General on establishing in Sweden: Will need up to 40 employees

The International Vaccine Institute, IVI, hopes to have its first staff on-site in Stockholm within a couple of months, says the institute’s Director General Jerome Kim in an interview with Life Science Sweden.

Astra Zenecas flytt till Hagastaden: ”Äntligen är vi här"

Samarbete mellan life science-bolag, akademin och hälso- och sjukvården var ledord när Astra Zenecas nordiska huvudkontor invigdes i Hagastaden under måndagen.

Keyplants byggde vaccinfabrik på rekordtid – nu är den på väg till Afrika

På mindre än åtta månader har svenska Keyplants byggt en tillverkningsanläggning för bland annat covidvaccin till Senegal.

The route to vaccines for everyone: “We did not just sit around and wait”

The pandemic was in full swing, and no one knew when or even if a vaccine would come. At that point, the Swedish Minister of Social Affairs called with a proposal, and Richard Bergström did not hesitate. “I already had a notion that this would work,” he says in an interview with Life Science Sweden.

Astra Zeneca flyttar till Life City i Hagastaden

Life City i Hagastaden fylls på med hyresgäster. Nu står det klart att Astra Zeneca kommer att flytta delar av sin verksamhet till life science-klustret.

Att bygga vaccinfabrik i Afrika – i rekordfart

Mitt under pågående pandemi har svenska Keyplants fått sitt kanske mest angelägna – och svåra – uppdrag hittills: att på rekordtid bygga Afrikas första produktionsanläggning för covidvaccin. "Det är en utmaning", säger Åsa Gaasvik Phalén på Keyplants, en av talarna vid eventet New Horizons in Biologics & Bioprocessing.

CTC utökar sitt erbjudande inom fas II-studier

Besök hos Astra Zenecas produktionsanläggning

Under sommaren stänger Astra Zeneca av produktionen under två veckor för underhållsarbete. Jerry Johansson, Head of Engineering Maintenance & Asset Management, har gett oss en inblick i stoppet.

Svenskt företag bygger första fabriken för covidvaccin i Afrika

Stockholmsföretaget Keyplants har ingått ett avtal om att bygga Afrikas första produktionsanläggning för vaccin mot covid-19.

Cytiva går för högtryck – nyanställer 300

Läkemedelsföretaget Cytiva fortsätter att expandera i covidpandemins spår. Bara i år räknar företaget med att nyanställa över 300 personer i Uppsala och Umeå.

Stort intresse för New Horizons

Just nu pågår livesändningen av Life Science Swedens event New Horizons in Biologics & Bioprocessing – och intresset är rekordstort.

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.

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.