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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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Stockholm and Uppsala jointly form a life science cluster
Stockholm and Uppsala are strengthening cooperation in medical research and biotech.
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Brasilien utrotar fruktad sjukdom
Världens sjätte folkrikaste land, Brasilien, har lyckats utrota parasitsjukdomen lymfatisk filariasis, även kallad elefantiasis eller elefantsjuka.
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Johan Pehrson takes over the responsibility for research policy in Sweden
The Liberals' party leader Johan Pehrson takes over the assignment as Minister for Education. This was announced by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) on Tuesday last week.
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Artificial intelligence in radiology – “Risk prediction is very exciting”
A growing number of solutions based on artificial intelligence are being developed and used in healthcare. According to Sophia Zackrisson, Professor of Radiology at Lund University, radiology is a field that is well suited to the technology.
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Siemens Healthineers köper del av Novartis
Tyska Siemens Healthineers planerar att köpa Novartis verksamhet AAA Diagnostics, som producerar radioaktiva kemikalier för bland annat cancerdiagnostik. Det rapporterar Financial Times.
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Västsvenska life science-aktörer rattar EU-projekt inom precisionsmedicin
Ett nytt projekt ska koppla samman innovationssystem i hela Europa för att få fart på implementeringen av precisionsmedicin. Och spindel i nätet är en rad tunga västsvenska life science-aktörer.
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Swedish pavilion with healthcare companies at Ukraine fair – “Ukraine is being rebuilt right now”
Private companies and public authorities are both needed in the reconstruction of Ukraine, said Minister for Health Care, Acko Ankarberg Johansson, in her opening speech in the Swedish pavilion at the ReBuild Ukraine fair.
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Sofia Wallström is Lif's new CEO
Sofia Wallström has been appointed as the new CEO of the industry organization Lif, the trade association for the research-based pharmaceutical industry in Sweden.
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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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Carl Borrebaeck – professor and serial entrepreneur with a taste for speed
Award-winning cancer researcher, the founder of many listed companies, and constantly in the academic and commercial spotlight for decades. However, Carl Borrebaeck, Professor of Immunotechnology at Lund, is not yet satisfied. “We have a new, potentially super exciting project in the pipeline,” he says.
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Astra Zeneca's Covid-19 vaccine Vaxzevria is being withdrawn worldwide
AstraZeneca initiates a worldwide withdrawal of its Covid vaccine Vaxzevria. The measure is taken just months after the company admitted the vaccine can cause a rare and dangerous side effect, but AstraZeneca claims that the decision is purely commercial.
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Nocebo – the evil twin that makes you feel worse
The placebo effect is well known in healthcare, but not so its opposite: nocebo. “The effect is small, but it can have major repercussions,” says Uppsala researcher Charlotte Blease, co-author of a book on the phenomenon.
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The Covid pandemic accelerated the development of cancer vaccine
The Covid pandemic gave a major boost to the vaccine field. The Danish biotech company Expres2ion Biotechnologies, which is developing a vaccine against breast cancer, testifies to this.
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Förkylningskurer ska undersökas i regeringsuppdrag
Vi vet för lite om vårt vanligaste sjukdomstillstånd. Det anser regeringen, som delar ut två nya uppdrag för att öka vår kunskap om förkylningar.
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Anna Törner: ”Orphan Designation – the "petite robe noire" of drug development”
It is easy to cling to various regulatory incentives, like orphan designation, and other expedited pathways, without understanding what they truly mean or whether they are indeed right (or wrong) for the current project, Anna Törner writes in a column.
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“Life science is important on a personal level”
From the High Coast to the Government Offices. Jeanette Edblad is a native of Ångermanland, and since September last year, she has been Head and Coordinator of the Government’s Life Science Office.
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From Valneva to the CEO position at NorthX – “I saw it as a great opportunity”
A new cell therapy for leukaemia, a vaccine in tablet form against cholera, and a proprietary mRNA line with the potential capacity to supply the entire Nordic region with vaccines during a future pandemic. These are some of the projects underway at NorthX Biologics – under the direction of new CEO Janet Hoogstraate.
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KI’s new super machine measures brain activity in real-time – “A very expensive hairdo”
Using brand-new, super-advanced equipment, researchers at Karolinska Institutet can now measure brain activity in real-time, with higher resolution than previously possible. “This opens up fantastic opportunities”, says brain researcher Daniel Lundqvist.
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Ingrid Lönnstedt: Demystification of the power of a scientific study
”You surely do realize that even the smallest changes in study assumptions may influence the estimated sample size needed. And how is it even possible to guess the magnitude of the treatment effect before performing the study?” writes Ingrid Lönnstedt in a column.
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”Informationssäkerhet måste bli en del av life science-strategin”
Doktorander och post-docs har kunnat utnyttja kunskaper de fått i Sverige för industriella konkurrensfördelar eller militära tillämpningar i sina hemländer, skriver Björn Ursing i en debattartikel där han framför att informationssäkerhet bör tas in som en del av den svenska life science-strategin.
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”Information security must become part of the Swedish life science strategy”
Sweden needs knowledge security to stand strong in the global competition, writes Björn Ursing in an opinion article.
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Hackerattack tvingar Region Uppsala övergå till reservsystem
En hackerattack i helgen har slagit hårt mot Region Uppsala, som tvingats gå upp i stabsläge.