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.

FDA godkänner antikroppstest för covid-19

Den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten, FDA, har gett ett påskyndat godkännande för nödsituationer till företaget Cellex att tillverka ett antikroppstest som upptäcker pågående eller tidigare infektion med det nya coronaviruset.

BCG-vaccin prövas mot coronavirus

I länder där barn vaccineras mot tuberkulos är dödligheten i covid-19 relativt lägre än i andra länder, enligt en ny studie. Nu inleds kliniska prövningar där vaccinet testas mot sjukdomen.

Tar bort behovet av levertransplantation

Hittills har den enda botande behandlingen vid akut hepatisk porfyri, AHP, varit levertransplantation. Nu kan det nya läkemedlet givosiran, som fick en prioriterad och uppskyndad bedömning av EMA, göra att sådana ingrepp inte behöver genomföras, men det är oklart när det når fram till den svenska marknaden.

Materielbristen förväntas bli värre under veckan

Bristen på skyddsutrustning spås bli allt allvarligare de kommande dagarna i Sverige. Materielbristen är ett problem i flera länder och nu varnar New Yorks borgmästare för att bristen snart kan leda till flera dödsfall.

Nya datum för spännande event

The Future of Swedish & Danish Life Science och New Updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability flyttas fram till september.

FDA skjuter upp alla utländska inspektioner

få godkännande från FDA, rapporterar Medcity news.

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?

not be better. A one-day conference on ongoing collaborations, new directions and required future investment will held on April 2nd at Medicon Village in Lund.

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

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.

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.

Första läkemedlet för bara en patient

I en ny artikel beskrivs det förmodade första fallet av ultra-personalized medicine – ett läkemedel till en åttaårig flicka med en ovanlig genetisk sjukdom.

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