Barncancerfondens hämtar ny generalsekreterare från Rädda Barnen

Barncancerfonden har utsett Ola Mattsson till sin nya generalsekreterare. Han kommer närmast från Rädda barnen, där han haft flera tunga uppdrag.

Swedish breakthrough in Alzheimer’s: “We can finally present great data”

Treatments for Alzheimer’s disease are currently among the hottest topics in drug development. Two Swedish research companies with high ambitions and successes in the field participated in Bioscience 2022 conference at Life City in Hagastaden, Stockholm.

Neanderthal genes and Nobel Prize in a popular lecture at Bioscience

An inherited gene variant from our ”evolutionary cousins” – the extinct Neanderthals – may affect how our bodies break down certain drugs. “It’s only a matter of time before we actively start screening for it,” said KI researcher Hugo Zeberg when describing the study at Bioscience 2022.

"Are we doing business the wrong way around in the Life Science Sector?"

For the past 50 years we have created solutions for problems that we thought would solve the problems. Pharmaceuticals have created big block buster drugs which were great for that time but now we realise that these drugs were in fact only tested in white men and certainly not for patients who are older who are taking a number of medications.

Astra Zeneca ger upp om covidvaccinet Vaxzevria i USA – drar tillbaka ansökan

Jätteregister ska ge bättre mammografi: "AI kommer att vara en fantastiskt arbetskollega"

Ett digitalt bildarkiv med över en halv miljon mammografier tagna i Malmö ska utmana artificiell intelligens, AI, att upptäcka bröstcancer i ett tidigare skede. Men inte för att ersätta röntgenläkarnas mänskliga bedömning, utan för att komplettera den.

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.

Studie: Apkoppor kan smitta före symtom

Över hälften av dem som fått apkoppor i det pågående utbrottet kan ha smittats av personer som ännu inte haft några symtom av sjukdomen, enligt en brittisk studie.

He is heading a new company for the development of Coegin’s cancer drug

The biotechnology company Coegin Pharma places the development of its drug candidate AVX420 in a newly formed company, Avexxin Oncology, based in Norway, and John Zibert will be the CEO.

Novavax is developing a vaccine candidate against Covid-19 and seasonal flu

A combined vaccine against both Covid-19 and seasonal flu is showing promising results in studies, according to the American drug developer Novavax. The adjuvant, which forms an essential part of the vaccine, originates from Sweden.

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

Läkemedelsindustrin rekryterar tungt namn från läkarfacket

Ylva Sandström blir medicinsk rådgivare i branschorganisationen Lif, och med det lämnar hon sina uppdrag som styrelseledamot i Sveriges Läkarförbund och ordförande i Distriktsläkarföreningen Stockholm.

Extensive agreements signed at Scilifelab

Four agreements were signed between Swedish and Dutch life science players in connection with the Dutch state visit earlier this month.

Richard Bergström blir hedersdoktor vid Uppsala universitet

Uppsala universitet har utsett fem hedersdoktorer vid den medicinska och vid den farmaceutiska fakulteten. Bland de nya hedersdoktorerna finns, förutom den nationella vaccinsamordnaren, tre forskare och en journalist.

Xbranes nyemission gav 170 miljoner inför kommande Europalansering

Xbrane, ett bolag som utvecklar biologiska läkemedel, har tagit in 170 miljoner kronor i en riktad nyemission.

She is Sweden´s new Minister of Healthcare

Today, Tuesday, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, who leads the Moderate Party and the centre-right coalition in Sweden, presented the government's new ministers. Christian Democrat Jakob Forssmed gets the role of Minister for Social Affairs and Acko Ankarberg Johansson (also of the Christian Democrat Party) becomes Minister for Health Care.

Alert from the Swedish Medicines Agency: Many complications with gastric balloons

According to the Swedish Medicines Agency, an increasing number of serious complications are being reported in procedures with gastric balloons as a method for weight loss. The authority fears significant shortcomings in the information to patients both before and after the procedure.

“We need to build flexible operating theatres”

Flexible operating theatres, micro-sensors on surgeons to monitor their well-being and 3D images projected onto organs to be operated on. These are a few ideas that three specialist surgeons are suggesting for the operating theatre of the future.

Cytel Inc acquires the SDS Group

The multinational statistical software developer and contract research organization Cytel Inc, headquartered in Massachusetts, USA, acquires the Swedish consulting company SDS Life Science.

Postdoc på spel i Astra Zenecas internationella tävling

Eslövsbon Cátia Bonito Ferreira ska på onsdag presentera sitt forskningsförslag om behandling för en sällsynt sjukdom inför en jury i hopp om att få en betald postdoc vid Astra Zenecas anläggning i Göteborg. ”Jag vill förbättra livskvaliteten för dessa patienter”, säger hon till Life Science Sweden.

“We aim to be a start-up company with an academic spirit”

Chronic pain and Alzheimer’s are two diseases that plague many people worldwide and seem impossible to cure. However, Huddinge-based company Alzecure is working on developing drugs for both conditions.

Avtal sluts mellan stora svenska och nederländska aktörer

Fyra överenskommelser mellan svenska och nederländska life science-aktörer ska skrivas idag. Avtalen signeras i samband med det pågående statsbesöket från Nederländerna under en ceremoni där ministrar från de bägge länderna medverkar.

Hon ska leda världens största medlemsorganisation för cancerfrågor

Cancerfondens generalsekreterare Ulrika Årehed Kågström har utsetts till ordförande för UICC, världens största internationella medlemsorganisation för cancerfrågor.

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.