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Göran Stiernstedt: “We are the world’s worst at continuity”
Failed investments in primary care, an unreasonable system with online doctors and a public failure at coordinating the healthcare IT system. Göran Stiernstedt does not mind his language when describing the shortcomings of today’s healthcare system. “It makes me extremely frustrated,” he says.
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Marie Gårdmark: New incentives for orphan products on its way
"Let’s hope that the learnings from development of new therapies for rare diseases will spill over to more common conditions, orphan products paving the wave for drug development in a broader context", writes Marie Gårdmark in a column.
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Nanexa flyttar in i nya lokaler – ska få bolaget att växa
Igår invigdes Nanexas nya pilotanläggning i Uppsala. Det 300 kvadratmeter stora renrummet gör anläggningen unik, menar bolagets vd David Westberg.
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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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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.
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Växande bransch i Danmark – "Ett nytt life science-företag i veckan"
Life science-sektorn i östra Danmark fortsätter att växa, både i antal anställda och antal företag. Ett uppseglande problem är bristen på arbetskraft, enligt en ny rapport.
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The first vaccine derived from cowpox
The British rural doctor could not forget the words of the peasant girl. Could that really be true? A couple of decades later, on 14 May 1796, he performed the world’s first smallpox vaccination, and a medical breakthrough had occurred.
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Now it’s settled: The International Vaccine Institute will be located in Stockholm
The International Vaccine Institute, IVI, is establishing itself outside South Korea for the first time. Last week, the Swedish Parliament ratified the agreement, which means that a branch of the institute will be located in Stockholm.
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The first pharmaceutical for eosinophilic esophagitis approved in the U.S.
The U.S. Drug Administration has approved the drug Dupixent (dupilumab) to treat inflammation of the oesophagus of the type eosinophil esophagitis.
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No demand for new Covid vaccine – “It will probably be discarded”
So far, just under 6 000 doses of the Covid vaccine from Novavax have been used in Sweden, leaving over 1.4 million doses in stock. “They will probably be discarded due to lack of demand in Sweden as well as globally,” says Sweden’s National Vaccine Coordinator Richard Bergström to Life Science Sweden.
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Start-up developing ”digital twin” received award during the EIT Health Summit
A biotech company, a medtech company and a company in digital health were on the podium when the EIT Health Catapult awarded its winners.
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Alzecure får godkänt för fas II-studie mot nervsmärta
Bolaget räknar med att studien, som ska utvärdera smärtstillande effekter hos patienter med perifer neuropatisk smärta, ska starta inom kort och att resultat kan presenteras nästa år.
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Anna Törner: To kill your darlings
Hopes were high when Anna Törner and her colleague started a study on a dietary supplement that seemed unbelievably good. “Enthusiastically, we dreamed of exciting results and perhaps a publication in a high-impact journal,” she writes in a column.
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Få tar det nya covidvaccinet – men en region går helt emot strömmen
Nästan en och en halv miljon doser av Novavax vaccin mot covid-19 har levererats till Sverige. Men inte ens 6 000 har gått åt. En region sticker dock ut. I Region Jönköping har uppseendeväckande många fler tagit det proteinbaserade vaccinet.
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Hello Angelica Loskog!
Life Science Sweden would like to know more about Angelica Loskog and interviews her about her life as a researcher.
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Modernas CFO avgår efter en dag på jobbet
Vaccinbolaget Modernas nya CFO Jorge Gomez fick lämna efter bara en dag på jobbet på grund av att hans förra arbetsgivare börjat med en internutredning.
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Så mycket tjänar världens bäst betalda forskningschefer
Från 47 procent i löneökning för den ene – till ett 95-procentigt löneras för den andre. Olika föll ödets lotter för världens bästa betalda forskningschefer inom läkemedelsindustrin i fjol men ett har de gemensamt: det går ingen nöd på någon av dem.
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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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New rules for diagnostic products, but who will certify them? “An extreme shortage area”
In less than two weeks, new and stricter EU rules will enter into force for thousands of products used in important diagnoses of, among other things, cancer and Covid-19. However, not one single institute in the entire Nordic region is able to certify
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Anna Törner: To kill your darlings
Förhoppningarna var höga när Anna Törner och hennes kollega startade en studie om ett kosttillskott som verkade vara overkligt bra. "Entusiastiskt drömde vi om spännande resultat och kanske en publikation i en högimpakttidskrift", skriver Anna Törner.
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Presenterar system som ska visa luftkvaliteten i realtid
Luftkvaliteten kan vara av stor vikt i labb- och vårdmiljöer, och även vid känslig läkemedelstillverkning. Anders Hedström, ledande expert inom luftrening, presenterar nu ett system som i realtid ska visa hur många partiklar, och av vilken sort, som finns i luften.
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Tougher competition as the Novo Nordisk Foundation broadens its programme
Søren Nedergaard has worked with innovation at the Danish Government Offices and the University of Copenhagen. Today, he is COO of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, which has recently broadened its programme for leading innovators in medical research to apply to the entire Nordic region.
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Paolo Macchiarini in court – “The sole intent was to cure”
Paolo Macchiarini’s surgical procedure was illegal, life-threatening and caused severe and prolonged suffering to patients the prosecution claimed when the trial against the Italian surgeon began on Wednesday last week.
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