Rapid developments in AI – “All stakeholders are struggling to understand it”

Artificial intelligence is being discussed more and more, and developments in the field are moving rapidly. As the Swedish Medical Products Agency testifies, keeping up with developments is not easy.

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.

Major advances in IVF labs in the last few decades

Since the introduction of in vitro fertilisation several decades ago, many developments have been made in the field, and the main part of that development has taken place in the lab.

Bör vi vara oroliga att AI tar över våra jobb?

Ingen kan ha undgått att det pratas om AI, artificiell intelligens, överallt. Men bör vi vara oroliga för våra jobb när AI gör entré?

“An entire industry is about to be wiped out”

According to Jennie Ekbeck, CEO of Umeå Biotech Incubators, Sweden risks not having any small diagnostic companies left in five years.

Vilka är de största riskfaktorerna för covid-19? Stor metastudie publicerad

Vem går igenom covid-19 med en axelryckning och vem kommer att behöva IVA-vård?

Medivir i möte med FDA: "Positiv återkoppling"

Forskningsbolaget Medivir har genomfört ett så kallat pre-IND-möte med den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA.

“Photon counting in computed tomography is the holy grail”

Erik Fredenberg, a researcher in physics at KTH and GE, is working to implement photon-counting CT in clinics. To shorten lead times and reduce the radiation dose in patients, he is setting out to develop a framework for virtual clinical trials for the technology.

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Misslyckat försök med Astra Zenecas nässpraysvaccin mot covid-19

Försök med att ge Astra Zenecas vaccin mot covid-19 genom näsan gav inte det önskade immunsvaret i en färsk studie.

Marie Gårdmark: Potential step change – EU regulators get to play with data

A new pilot from EMA is starting in September to assess wether the analysis of 'raw data' by regulatory authorities improves the evaluation of marketing approval for new medicines. Marie Grådmark writes in a column that she is looking forward to the outcome of the pilot to hopefully then understand if “in house” analyses actually will add value.

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.

Innovationshubben i Matfors har haft sin första kund – "Full fart nu"

Gammal utrustning rivs ut – nya toppmoderna labb för processutveckling och analys kommer på plats. På Northx Biologics i Matfors pågår arbetet för fullt med att skapa Sveriges nya innovationshubb för biologiska läkemedel. "Det händer väldigt mycket just nu, och det är väldigt kul", säger Eva-Karin Gidlund, Head of Alliance and Innovation Management på Northx, till Life Science Sweden.

Valnevas covidvaccin godkänt – men hur går det med vaccinavtalet med EU?

EU-kommissionen ger tummen upp för Valnevas covidvaccin. Det är det sjätte som godkänns i EU, och det första som är ett inaktiverat helvirusvaccin. Men det är högst oklart om det kommer till Sverige.

Collaboration for a simpler production of gene therapies launched

A collaboration between universities and companies aims at providing better production methods for the development of gene therapies. The initiative is led by Johan Rockberg, Professor at KTH.

Vaccinavtal eller inte – orolig tid för Valneva i Solna

Förhandlingarna mellan Valneva och EU om leveranser av covidvaccin pågår in i det sista, och på vaccinföretagets anläggning i Solna är läget ovisst. – Vi har inte landat i ett avtal än och tiden börjar rinna ut, säger bolagets Sverigechef Janet Hoogstraate till Life Science Sweden.

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.

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.

When carelessness, forgetfulness and coincidence become the researcher’s best friend

Forgetfulness, coincidence and a stroke of luck hardly make up a fruitful method of serious research. Or do they? Actually, a number of important medical advances have come about thanks to completely random incidents and the open-mindedness of scientists who were ready to think outside the box.

Key2compliance expanderar till Danmark

För första gången etablerar sig medicinteknik- och läkemedelskonsulterna Key2compliance utanför Sveriges gränser.

Björn Ursing: Physicians new role in AI driven healthcare

”AI could be the key we need for tomorrow’s healthcare, but it is not a stand-alone tool”, writes Björn Ursing in a column about how the role for physicians changes in the era of AI.

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.

BMS stämmer svenskt forskningsbolag för patentintrång

Den globala läkemedelsjätten Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) stämmer det svenska forskningsbolaget Xspray Pharma för patentintrång kopplat till läkemedelskandidaten Dasynoc.

Recipharm förvärvar två kontraktstillverkare i USA

Svenska Recipharm förvärvar två andra kontraktstillverkare: virusvektorbolaget Vibologics och Arranta Bio, specialiserat på avancerade terapier.