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Founder of Bioarctic, Lars Lannfelt, is honoured: “I want to create something for the future”
It´s like a scientist’s dream: to be the world’s first with a drug that genuinely affects one of our major diseases. Lars Lannfelt and his company Bioarctic have achieved just that, and they are thus making a significant contribution to the history of Swedish medicine. He is now being awarded the Research!Sweden Award 2023.
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Astra Zeneca’s Sweden CEO: “We have great faith in our portfolio”
It all started with a summer job as an operator at Astra’s chemical factory in Snäckviken, just outside Södertälje. More than three decades and countless different assignments later, Per Alfredsson, born and raised in Södertälje, is CEO of Astra Zeneca Sweden, which employs 7800 people in Södertälje, Stockholm and Gothenburg. “It was a very special feeling to be in charge of the entire organisation,” he says in an interview about his career and potential future blockbusters.
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Synact Pharmas aktie rusar efter nya studieresultat
Synact Pharma meddelar nu ytterligare data från en fas IIb-studien med läkemedlet resomelagon. Studien visar att läkemedlet har en effekt på en delpopulation av patienter. Bolagets aktie rusade efter beskedet.
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Synact nådde inte målen i studie: ”Vi är besvikna”
Lundbaserade Synact Pharma nådde inte sitt primära mål i fas IIb-studien Expand, där läkemedelskandidaten resomelagon utvärderades för patienter med svår aktiv nydiagnostiserad reumatoid artrit. Beskedet fick bolagets aktie att falla kraftigt.
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Small robots to deliver pharmaceuticals to the body
Robots that can operate inside the body and a platform that combines ultrasound with AI. These are a couple of the technologies that have qualified for a list that aims to promote sustainable entrepreneurship.
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Studie dissar samband mellan depression och cancer
Depression och oro ökar inte risken för att utveckla de flesta typer av cancer, enligt en ny metastudie.
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Why the world renown researcher Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigns as Stanford´s president
the winners and punished the losers”. Here is the background of the story which has shaken the American scientific community over the summer.
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Nya data från Medivir vid cancerkongress
Forskningsbolaget Medivir har presenterat data för en trippelkombination med läkemedelskandidaten fostrox vid kongressen AACR 2023.
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Keanu Reeves ger namn åt molekyler som är effektiva mot svampsjukdomar
Tyska forskare presenterar svampdödande molekyler, keanumyciner, som är verksamma mot bland annat Candida albicans – en svamp som kan angripa människa.
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Rapid development in blood analysis – “Sweden is leading the race”
Thousands of analytical tests using just one single drop of blood. What was revealed as a hoax just a few years ago is now a reality, according to KTH professor and serial entrepreneur Mathias Uhlén.
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Fritt fram för desinformation om covid-19 på Twitter
Yttrandefrihet ska råda på Twitter, enligt nya ägaren Elon Musk, och nu har regler för att förhindra spridning av desinformation om covid-19 tagits bort.
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“We are Europe’s hotspot in life science”
The Medicon Valley Alliance has worked for competence development in life science in Denmark and Sweden for a quarter of a century. Anette Steenberg, CEO, sees the anniversary as a recognition of MVA’s explosive power.
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Behandling som skjuter upp diabetes typ 1 godkänd i USA – "Historiskt ögonblick"
Den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA har godkänt en behandling som fördröjer utbrottet av typ 1-diabetes, och därmed kan bespara patienter åratal av insulinsprutor, blodsockerkontroller och hård diet.
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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.
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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.
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Ämne från äppelträdets bark gav bättre dialys i djurstudie
Ett paradigmskifte i dialysbehandlingen är under uppsegling, enligt forskaren Carl Öberg, som har upptäckt att ett ämne från äppelträdets bark blockerar cellerna från att ta upp glukos från dialysvätskan.
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Bought a tablet factory – and built his own empire
In 1995, Thomas Eldered was CEO of one of Pharmacia’s factories in the Stockholm area when the Swedish pharmaceutical giant, after a takeover, decided to move its production abroad. 34-year-old Thomas was facing an imminent risk of losing his job. However, instead, it actually turned out to be the starting point for one of the biggest success stories in Swedish life science.
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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
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Newly discovered gene variant linked to protection against abdominal obesity
American researchers believe they have identified a rare gene mutation that protects against abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome. The ambition is that the discovery will lead to new treatments that can help reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes
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Amorphous materials take centre stage when Orexo develops new formulations
Swift resolution but with maintained stability. Orexo’s new drug delivery platform tackles the problem of amorphous materials. “Our technology has the positive properties of the material, and it also cracks some of the problems,” says the company’s Research and Development Manager Robert Rönn.
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Lancet knuffar ner NEJM från citattoppen
För första gången på 45 år petas New England Journal of Medicine från förstaplatsen på listan över de mest citerade vetenskapliga tidskrifterna. Ny etta är Lancet.
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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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Samuel Lagercrantz: Immunotherapy against cancer is still in its early stages
For more than 100 years, researchers have tried to target the body’s own immune system to fight cancer cells. They have occasionally been laughed at and ridiculed by the medical establishment. However, from our perspective today, we can sum it up with the saying: He who laughs last laughs best, writes Samuel Lagercrantz in an editorial.
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Cline anlitar expert på ortopedisk kirurgi
Mölndalsföretaget Cline Scientific utvecklar avancerad cancerdiagnostik och regenerativa medicinbehandlingar. Nu har de utnämnt Lars Peterson till ny rådgivare för deras produkt för cellbaserad broskpreparation, Stemcart.
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