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.

Medicult disclaims Swedish offer

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

Ten recieve the Venture Cup West Prize

At this year´s Venture Cup West awards the 10 best business ideas in Venture Cup West 08/09 were chosen, receiving SEK 10 000 each.

LEO Pharma - International Clinical Trial Manager

Norwegian cancer therapy leaves phase II

New clinical results from Algeta highlights the potential of Alpharadin to treat bone metastases in major cancer indications.

Vitrolife wants to acquire Medicult

The Swedish company Vitrolife intends to make en exchange offer to the shareholders of the Danish company Medicult to acquire all outstanding shares in the company.

View pathology images in your iPhone

The Institute for Medical Informatics in Oslo announces a brand new iPhone application for virtual microscopy.

Parnevik firm in Swiss osteoporosis deal

The golf legend Jesper Parnevik's drug delivery firm EffRx has signed a license agreement with Nycomed for a new drug against osteoporosis.

Norwegian entrance in EU technology network

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology joins the European Science Business Network of prominent European research institutions.

DKK 1,3 billion for grand research

Danish Councils for Independent Research, DFF, will grant DKK 1,3 billion during 2009. Now has the application period started.

New CEO to Medivir

The Board of the Swedish biotech company Medivir has appointed the successor to the current CEO Lars Adlersson.

Medicult acquires embryo scanner

The Danish company Medicult signs an agreement with Novocellus to gain access to embryo selection technology.

Collaboration brings next generation drugs

Wyeth and Santaris Pharma announce a new alliance to develop RNA-based medicines.

Trio goes in for high tech medicines

The Swedish drug discovery company Beactica announces fragment-based drug discovery research collaboration with GE Healthcare and the University of Uppsala.

SDU professor helps EU

Mette Præst Knudsen from the University of Southern Denmark, SDU, has been appointed as an expert member in an EU politics group.

Swiss allergy therapy convinces

Cytos Biotechnology presents promising results in a study of a new therapy against allergy and asthma.

Bio-Linux goes global

Recently the NEBC Bio-Linux Version 5.0 was released, a one-stop shop for bioinformatics tools in a Linux context.

Biogaia's advance goes on

In December Biogaia reached China and North America. Now, the Swedish probiotic company has entered the Mexican market.

New CEO to Swedish Tillotts Pharma

The Swiss company Tillotts Pharma's newly established Swedish organisation has appointed a CEO from Bayer Scandinavia.

Norwegian describes scrapie gene

Intestinal lymphatic tissue is important for the absorption and spread of the scrapie prion, suggests a Norwegian researcher.

Elekta gets ok from China

The Swedish medtech comapny Elekta has received approval from the Chinese authority State Food and Drug Administration, SFDA, to sell its linear accelerator in China.

Recipharm launches into biologics manufacturing

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

Danish biorefinery can save US billions

The Danish Inbicon biorefinery process could save the US billions on foreign oil, the organization states.

New Nordic nutrition collaboration

Scandinavian Clinical Nutrition has recently signed a unique Nordic distribution agreement.