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Drug development booms in Medicon Valley
When it comes to developing new medicines, the Öresund region is one of the top performers in the EU. Companies working on commission for pharmaceutical companies are highlighted as a success factor. “Everyone has heard of Novo Nordisk, but these companies are unknown to people outside the industry despite being the golden vein of the life science sector,” says Anette Steenberg, CEO of the cluster organisation MVA.
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Stark pipeline i Medicon Valley – servicebolagen lyfts fram
Öresundsregionen har en av toppositionerna i EU vad gäller utveckling av nya läkemedel. Företag som arbetar på uppdrag av läkemedelsbolag lyfts fram som en framgångsfaktor. ”Alla känner till Novo Nordisk, men de här företagen har ingen utanför branschen hört talas om trots att de är life science-sektorns gyllene ven”, säger Anette Steenberg, vd för klusterorganisationen MVA.
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”The importance of stratification in a statistician’s August kitchen”
Ingrid Lönnstedt writes about an experiment of her own at home and about what lessons can be learned from it, in a science column.
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Her company is developing a new tablet form obesity drug
Obesity and diabetes are the primary targets of a new tablet treatment under development by Malmö-based Pila Pharma. The company’s ambition is to take on the billion-selling GLP1 analogues. ‘‘Basically, I expect all the beneficial effects that they have, but not the same side effect profile,’’ company founder Dorte X Gram said in an interview with Life Science Sweden.
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Lundbeck köper epilepsibolag för 27 miljarder
Det danska läkemedelsbolaget Lundbeck stärker sin portfölj inom sällsynta neurologiska sjukdomar genom att förvärva amerikanska Longboard Pharmaceutics för 2,6 miljarder dollar, motsvarande drygt 27 miljarder kronor.
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GSK pays 2.2 billion dollars to settle Zantac lawsuits
British drugmaker Glaxo Smith Kline, GSK, has struck a 2.2 billion dollar settlement, thereby resolving a vast majority of the liability cases pending against the company in the U.S. that alleged its discontinued drug Zantac caused cancer.
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Läkemedelsbolag skänker nödläkemedel till marburgdrabbade Rwanda
Gilead Sciences har beslutat att skänka 5 000 doser av antivirusläkemedlet remdesivir till Rwanda för nödanvändning under det pågående utbrottet av den fruktade virussjukdomen marburg.
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Virusforskaren om marburg: ”Det är bra att vara på tårna”
Med anledning av utbrottet av marburg i Rwanda höjer Sverige nu beredskapen. Virusforskaren Ali Mirazimi tycker det är bra att svenska myndigheter reagerar trots att risken för ett utbrott i Sverige bedöms vara mycket låg.
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Marburg klassas som samhällsfarlig sjukdom
Regeringen höjer beredskapen för ett utbrott av marburg. Det meddelade socialminister Jakob Forssmed (KD) vid en presskonferens.
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Viruslarm avblåst i Tyskland – men utbrottet fortsätter i Rwanda
Farhågorna om misstänkt blödarsjuka från marburgvirus i Hamburg visade sig vara falskt alarm. Samtidigt fortsätter utbrottet av den dödliga infektionen i centralafrikanska Rwanda.
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Anna Törner: ”Mom, do you think you’ll ever get married again?”
”I realize I’m slowly descending into that familiar statistical rabbit hole, where life’s biggest uncertainties are reduced to point estimates and confidence intervals”, Anna Törner writes in a column.
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“We should avoid surgery if we can”
Since February this year, she has been Scientific Director Life Science at the Karolinska Institutet. Life Science Sweden met Anna Martling for a talk about role models, surgery and Sweden’s strengths and weaknesses in medical research.
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Ingrid Lönnstedt: ”The confidence interval and its width”
Always keep an eye on the width of your and others’ confidence intervals, writes Ingrid Lönnstedt in a science column.
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Positiva besked för Cereno i både EU och USA – ”Stor glädje”
Cereno Scientific beviljas status som särläkemedel i EU för sin behandling av lungsjukdomen pulmonell arteriell hypertension, PAH. Samtidigt meddelas nya framsteg i USA.
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Anna Törner: Yes, I Am Sick, But Not Weak
”People often say that someone who is ill only has one wish—to get better. But I think that is not true. Someone who is ill also longs to be understood, to be respected, to not have their identity overshadowed by their condition”, writes Anna Törner in a column.
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The investor: “The major common diseases are hot again”
She has previously been voted Investor of the Year and will now be moderating The Future of Swedish & Danish Life Science congress. We check the temperature of the industry with Nina Rawal from Trill Impact Advisory.
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Thumbs down for lecanemab in the EU – “Very surprised”
The Azheimer's drug lecanemab has received a negative assessment from the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), according to an announcement made by the Agency last week. Bioarctic’s CEO Gunilla Osswald describes the reactions after the announcement as a surprise and disappointment.
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Healthcare study: Alzheimer’s blood test shows high accuracy
A blood test for identifying Alzheimer’s has now been tested in the general healthcare setting. According to the researchers, the test was 90% accurate in making a diagnosis.
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Ultimovacs studie uppnådde inte målen – ”Vi är besvikna”
Norska Ultimovacs cancervaccin uppnådde inte målen i en fas II-studie hos patienter med huvud- och halscancer. Cancervaccinet i kombination med en kontrollpunktshämmare gav inga ytterligare kliniska fördelar, enligt bolaget.
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Tummen ned för lecanemab i EU – ”Jätteförvånad”
Alzheimerläkemedlet lecanemab får ett negativ utlåtande från den europeiska läkemedelsmyndighetens kommitté för humanläkemedel, CHMP. Det meddelade myndigheten i förra veckan. Förvåning och besvikelse, så beskriver Bioarctics vd Gunilla Osswald reaktionerna efter beskedet.
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Nobel Prize winner Torsten Wiesel turns 100: “Old men like me should use their experience to help the young”
In 1955, a young Torsten Wiesel jumped on a boat to the US and embarked on a fabulous career as a neuroscientist, crowned with a Nobel Prize for his work. Now 100 years old, he looks back on an intense life and his upbringing in Stockholm, Sweden, which shaped his desire to help the vulnerable in society.
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Innovative start-up helps doctors, scientists and industry balance coagulation risks
For many doctors caring for seriously ill patients, for example, in stroke units and cancer wards, maintaining the life-saving balance between bleeding and thrombosis is an ongoing challenge. In the late 1980s, scientists at Maastricht University in the Netherlands developed an innovative method, the thrombin generation assay (TGA), which provides a complete overview of a physiological process crucial for maintaining normal haemostasis.
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“Conducting research at universities is becoming more and more like working at a research hotel”
The government wants Swedish research to focus on excellence and innovation, but can the two be combined? Life Science Sweden talks to Anna Falk, a professor at Lund University, about research policy, the constant hunt for funding in academia and what constitutes ‘fine research’.
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Bayer has cut 1,500 roles – so far
German chemical and pharmaceutical group Bayer cut more than 1,500 roles in the first quarter alone– and most of them were management positions.
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