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Konferens om läkemedelsformuleringar samlar branschen i Köpenhamn
Idag pågår den tionde upplagan av New Updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability 2022 i Köpenhamn.
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Lucy Robertshaw inför kongressen i Lund: ”Det känns som en familjeåterträff”
På onsdag är det dags för Life Science Swedens stora kongress The Future of Swedish and Danish Life Science i Lund. Lucy Robertshaw är moderator för mötet.
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Anders Blanck about his 17 years at Lif: “The industry is enjoying greater public trust now"
The announcement came as a surprise to those around him, but according to the protagonist himself, the timing was excellent. Anders Blanck is now leaving Lif – a decision that has been growing for some time. “I have been pretty much married to my mission
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Genes from Neanderthals can affect the correct drug dosage
A fifth of all Europeans carry gene variants inherited from Neanderthals, which cause certain drugs to break down more slowly. This may have implications for the drug doses they should take.
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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 (Neurosedyn), writes Anna Törner in a column.
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Första godkännandet för Evusheld som behandling av covid-19: "En milstolpe"
Astra Zenecas läkemedel Evusheld har godkänts i Japan både för förebyggande och behandling av covid-19. Det är första gången läkemedlet får ett godkännande som behandling mot symtomatisk sjukdom orsakad av sars-cov-2-viruset.
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Anna Törner: Kalasjnikovs i ny skepnad
Europa har skonats från opioidepidemin, tack vare europeiska regulatoriska myndigheter som höll emot. På 1960-talet var situationen omvänd då den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten, FDA, vägrade godkänna talidomid (Neurosedyn), skriver Anna Törner i en krönika.
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Lucy Robertshaw: Did you know Stockholm wants to be in top 5 in the world for Life Sciences?
Karolinska Institutet Solna Campus has certainly become the next “Kendall Square”, writes Lucy Robertshaw in a column.
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Trippelgodkännande för Astra Zeneca i Japan
Tre olika läkemedel från Astra Zeneca har godkänts i Japan. De rör sig om behandlingar mot lungcancer i tidigt stadium, bröstcancer samt muskelsjukdomen myastenia gravis.
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Sweden is heavily criticised for not ordering Covid vaccine
Valneva and the EU Commission have entered into an agreement for 1.25 million doses of the company’s Covid vaccine, but Sweden has not placed an order.
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Tikomed förstärker styrelsen med två nya namn
Biopharmabolaget Tikomed har utsett Tara Heitner och Peter Zorn till nya ledamöter i styrelsen.
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Idogen möblerar om när storägare går in i styrelsen
Biotechföretaget Idogen bygger om sin styrelse med två nya representanter för bolagets huvudägare. Dessa är Joakim Söderström, som också föreslås bli ny styrelseordförande, och Niklas Wallett.
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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
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BioVentureHub CEO: “Companies with a high degree of interaction achieve greater success”
For the first time since its inception, AstraZeneca’s BioVentureHub can now recruit new companies, as some of its tenants have grown significantly and are leaving the hub. This is the message from the biohub’s CEO Magnus Björsne in an interview, in which
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Oväntat snabbt USA-godkännande av Astra Zenecas cancerbehandling
Astra Zeneca och Daiichi Sankyos läkemedel Enhertu har godkänts av de amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA som den första behandlingen mot icke opererbar och metastaserad bröstcancer med lågt HER2-uttryck.
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Konkurrenskraft, cancervård och MDR – läs krönikörernas tankar om branschen
Nya tankegångar, åsikter och framtidsvisioner från profiler i branschen, tillika krönikörer i Life Science Sweden och vår systertidning Medtech Magazine. Här har vi samlat några av årets krönikor.
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Tablet treatment for hair loss approved in the USA
The US Drug Administration has given a thumbs up for the first tablet treatment for spotty hair loss.
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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.
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Study: Our behaviour may have been guided by wishful thinking during the pandemic
A new study suggests that we systematically underestimate health risks if and when it suits us. This was especially true during the pandemic, as our risk assessments may have been guided by wishful thinking rather than a rational perception of the risks.
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Björn Arvidsson: “We need robust and recognized ecosystems for continued competitiveness”
“We have idea carriers and excellent innovation opportunities, and now we must invest in creating ecosystems that provide them with even better growth opportunities,” Björn Arvidsson writes in a column.
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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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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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