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Carl Borrebaeck – professor and serial entrepreneur with a taste for speed
Award-winning cancer researcher, the founder of many listed companies, and constantly in the academic and commercial spotlight for decades. However, Carl Borrebaeck, Professor of Immunotechnology at Lund, is not yet satisfied. “We have a new, potentially super exciting project in the pipeline,” he says.
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Anna Törner: ”Orphan Designation – the "petite robe noire" of drug development”
It is easy to cling to various regulatory incentives, like orphan designation, and other expedited pathways, without understanding what they truly mean or whether they are indeed right (or wrong) for the current project, Anna Törner writes in a column.
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“What is important is to create an overview and understanding from different perspectives”
Scientist Jochen Schwenk analyses blood proteins using proteomics to improve our understanding of disease and health. This year, he is moderating the Lab & Diagnostics of the Future event.
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Failed to read the fine print – lost his life’s work
A celebrated CEO and co-founder of a pioneering lab company one moment – the next, fired, kicked out and written out of the company’s history. This is the story of a Swedish entrepreneur who was going to raise US venture capital to strengthen his company but lost his life’s work instead.
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Tirzepatide approved for obesity by the FDA – to be branded as Zepbound
Diabetes drug tirzepatide has now also been approved in the US for treating obesity.
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Study names with an attitude – more important than you might think
Ironman, T-rex, Star-Trek. Popcorn, Proper, Scout. Nope, these are neither fantasy films nor dog names. They’re the names of ongoing cancer studies in Sweden.
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Charlotta Gummeson leaves Sahlgrenska Science Park – “It feels sad and exciting at the same time”
With mixed emotions, Charlotta Gummeson will leave her position as CEO of Sahlgrenska Science Park in October. “It feels sad and exciting at the same time. I’ve been in the thick of things and part of the development for so long now, but I’m also looking forward and thinking about all the new things that there will be in a freer role,” she says to Life Science Sweden
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Sprint licensierar ut cancerprogram i sin största affär hittills
Sprint Bioscience licensierar ut de globala rättigheterna till cancerprogrammet Vada till amerikanska Day One Biopharmaceuticals. Avtalet, som är bolagets största hittills, är potentiellt värt upp till 316 miljoner dollar, motsvarande drygt 3,4 miljarder kronor.
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A billion-dollar acquisition makes Novo Nordisk even bigger in obesity
Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk acquires Montreal-based Inversago Pharma, which develops treatments for obesity and diabetes.
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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 Phase III study.
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New report: Fewer PhDs in life sciences
A new report from Vinnova suggests that competency returns in the life science sector are declining.
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Conference on Alzheimer’s reveals several advances in the field
In Gothenburg, Sweden, researchers and pharmaceutical companies from all over the world gathered to discuss one specific issue – neurological diseases. Life Science Sweden has talked to some of those that attended the conference.
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Alzheimerkonferens – Flera framsteg inom fältet
I Göteborg samlas just nu forskare och läkemedelsföretag från hela världen för att diskutera en och samma sak – neurologiska sjukdomar. Life Science Sweden har pratat med några av dem som är på plats på konferensen.
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AI baserad på språkalgoritm skapade nya fungerande proteiner
Inte ens proteiner går säkra för språkrobotarna. I det senaste numret av Nature Biotechnology presenterades språkmodellen Progen som, enligt forskarna bakom studien, lärt sig semantiken och grammatiken i proteinernas språk.
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New study: Post-Covid symptoms are common even after mild Covid-19
According to researchers at the University of Gothenburg, loss of smell and taste, shortness of breath and chest symptoms are the most common complaints after a mild Covid infection.
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Anna Törner: Kalashnikovs in a new guise
Thanks to resisting European regulatory authorities, Europe has been spared the opioid epidemic. In the 1960s, the situation was the opposite as the American pharmaceutical authority, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), refused to approve thalidomide (Neurosedyn), writes Anna Törner in a column.
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A growing industry in Denmark: “One new life science company a week”
The life science sector in eastern Denmark continues to grow in the number of employees, as well as the number of companies. An emerging problem is the shortage of labour, a new report reveals.
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Noxious parasite forms hybrids and deceives the immune system
The small parasite Trypanosoma cruzi has a nasty ability to cause serious illness. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet have now mapped its ability to deceive the immune system by forming new variants that are mixtures of different strains.
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Investments worth 40 billion in the Öresund region – “A huge investment wave”
A new report reveals that medical companies in the Oresund region are investing like never before.
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Tre gånger så många har dött av covid-19 enligt ny studie
18 miljoner människor – så många kan ha dött under pandemin, säger forskare bakom ny stor internationell studie. Det är tredubbelt fler än vad som tidigare rapporterats. Men studien har redan fått kritik.
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Tina Persson: Så nätverkar du bäst via Linkedin
Du har bestämt dig för att gå vidare i karriären. Och sen då? Tina Persson, karriärcoach och författare till ”The PhD Career Coaching Guide” tipsar om hur du kan ta hjälp av affärsnätverket Linkedin.
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Elicera develops CAR-T against solid tumours – may become the first in the world
Today, there are five EU-approved CAR-T therapies, all focused on different types of blood cancer, but no one has yet succeeded in making the method work against solid tumours. At Gothenburg-based Elicera, they are working relentlessly to succeed in that field as well. “It is the largest field, and the potential is enormous,” says the company’s CEO Jamal El-Mosleh.
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Björn Arvidsson: ”We need to change perspective”
If you say “life science” to a person on the street and ask them to explain what it is, you will probably get no good answer. The same question to your network will generate as many versions as the people you ask. Most likely, we will miss many
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Lundbeck behind the first EU-approved intravenous migraine treatment
A preventive, intravenous treatment for migraines has been approved in the EU for the first time.
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