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“Research is always a lot of failures and a few successes”
Gene therapies open up fantastic possibilities, but they are also extremely expensive to produce. Genenova aims to change that and make the treatments accessible to more people. “Our overall ambition is to reduce costs a hundredfold”, says professor Johan Rockberg at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
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Samuel Lagercrantz: ”Geoffrey Hintons farhågor”
”Ska vi få en så ljus framtid som möjligt där AI används på bästa sätt behövs både de som ser risker med den nya tekniken och de som ser sig som teknikoptimister”, skriver Samuel Lagercrantz i en ledare.
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Anna Törner: ”If I fall seriously ill, I’ll move to Finland”
”It is both undignified and undemocratic that cancer patients must travel to Finland to uphold a façade of fairness that does not truly exist”, Anna Törner writes in a column.
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In search of Marcel Proust's lost health
A great writer, but also a weak person and a hypochondriac. That has been the usual image of Marcel Proust. But the pediatrician and literary scholar Carl Lindgren paints a partly different picture in a new book about the French master's life, health and attitude towards physicians.
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Petter Hartman: “Ökade säkerhetshot kräver ökade resurser”
Säkerhetsläget har försämrats i rask takt under de senaste åren och något yrvaket har även svenska universitet och högskolor tvingats inse att man numera betraktas som en central del i det svenska totalförsvaret. Då behöver både kompetens och resurser
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Ny chef för NIH lovar omfattande reformer
Läkaren Jay Bhattacharya utses av Donald Trump att leda USA:s forskningsinstitut NIH, med en budget på nära 50 miljarder dollar, som han lovar att reformera i grunden.
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Investigations against AstraZeneca: ”Chinese interests may be behind them”
Why are there several investigations against AstraZeneca employees in China right now? Life Science Sweden continues to seek answers.
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Medivir CEO on upcoming study: ”It's about working together with others”
Medivir is a small company with a big task: to take its drug candidate, via extensive clinical studies, all the way to a patient group that currently lacks approved treatment alternatives. "We can't do that on our own – our entire R&D activities are about working together with others," says the company's CEO Jens Lindberg.
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Alligator säljer antikroppar och fokuserar på huvudprojekt
Alligator Bioscience överlåter två bispecifika antikroppar till samarbetspartnern Orion Corporation.
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Xbrane i licensavtal med indisk generikajätte – ”Den perfekta partnern”
Biosimilarutvecklaren Xbrane Biopharma och indiska Intas Pharmaceuticals har ingått ett licens- och samutvecklingsavtal.
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Roche’s Genentech terminates licencing deal with Norwegian biotech
Genentech is ending a license collaboration with Norwegian biotech Nykode Therapeutics regarding a clinical stage cancer vaccine program.
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Lilly´s Nordic manager on Mounjaro launch in Sweden: "Patients deserve respect"
Another blockbuster diabetes and obesity drug has made its way into the Swedish market – with promises of a stable supply and availability for patients. “What we see is a significant unmet need, so we are expecting to have quite a good welcoming in the market", says Daniel Lucas, Managing Director Nordic Countries at the American pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly.
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Bolag anklagas för att ha mörkat förhöjd risk för deltagare i alzheimerstudier
Ett stort antal deltagare i de kliniska alzheimerstudierna av lecanemab och donanemab bar på en genvariant som gjorde att de löpte förhöjd risk för allvarliga biverkningar. Det kände läkemedelsbolagen till – men patienterna fick inte veta.
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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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New large lab building in Lund inaugurated – here are the companies moving in
Medicon Village has received a new laboratory building. On Friday last week the building was inaugurated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony by Minister for Employment and Integration Mats Persson (L) and construction contractor Mats Paulsson.
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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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Jätteanslag till medicinsk grundforskning – åtta projekt delar på 227 miljoner
Mekanismerna bakom kronisk smärta, en atlas över tarmbarriären och B-cellsminnets outforskade dimensioner är några av de åtta grundforskningsprojekt inom medicinfältet som får dela på 227 miljoner kronor från Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse.
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Jätteaffär på gång inom konsumenthälsa – Sanofi i förhandlingar
Franska Sanofi kan vara på väg att släppa greppet om sin division inom konsumenthälsa, Opella, i vad som kan bli årets största affär inom den europeiska hälsobranschen.
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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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Uppåt för Cereno efter studieresultat – ”Stärker vår övertygelse”
Forskningsbolaget Cereno Scientific meddelar positiva resultat från en fas IIa-studie av bolagets läkemedelskandidat i hjärt- och lungsjukdomen PAH, pulmonell arteriell hyptertension. Bolagets aktie steg kraftigt efter beskedet.
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From lab to patient – the art of developing new antibody therapies
For 25 years, Danish company Genmab has been developing antibodies and has managed to get several drugs all the way to the patient. Esther Breij has been along for much of the journey and has experienced setbacks, but also huge discoveries. “It’s amazing when you succeed,” she says.
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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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Abbvie flyttar in i Forskaren
Elekta, Astra Zeneca och ett tiotal andra life science-bolag är redan på plats. Nu flyttar även läkemedelsbolaget Abbvie sitt Sverigekontor till Forskaren i Hagastaden.