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Now it’s settled: The International Vaccine Institute will be located in Stockholm
The International Vaccine Institute, IVI, is establishing itself outside South Korea for the first time. Last week, the Swedish Parliament ratified the agreement, which means that a branch of the institute will be located in Stockholm.
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The first pharmaceutical for eosinophilic esophagitis approved in the U.S.
The U.S. Drug Administration has approved the drug Dupixent (dupilumab) to treat inflammation of the oesophagus of the type eosinophil esophagitis.
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No demand for new Covid vaccine – “It will probably be discarded”
So far, just under 6 000 doses of the Covid vaccine from Novavax have been used in Sweden, leaving over 1.4 million doses in stock. “They will probably be discarded due to lack of demand in Sweden as well as globally,” says Sweden’s National Vaccine Coordinator Richard Bergström to Life Science Sweden.
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Start-up developing ”digital twin” received award during the EIT Health Summit
A biotech company, a medtech company and a company in digital health were on the podium when the EIT Health Catapult awarded its winners.
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Anna Törner: To kill your darlings
Hopes were high when Anna Törner and her colleague started a study on a dietary supplement that seemed unbelievably good. “Enthusiastically, we dreamed of exciting results and perhaps a publication in a high-impact journal,” she writes in a column.
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Forskare utvecklar kontaktlinser för att bota grön starr
Kinesiska forskare har utvecklat kontaktlinser som ska känna av om trycket i ögat stiger och därefter frigöra läkemedel för att sänka trycket vid behov. Förhoppningen är kunna bota grön starr.
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Hello Angelica Loskog!
Life Science Sweden would like to know more about Angelica Loskog and interviews her about her life as a researcher.
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Noxious parasite forms hybrids and deceives the immune system
The small parasite Trypanosoma cruzi has a nasty ability to cause serious illness. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet have now mapped its ability to deceive the immune system by forming new variants that are mixtures of different strains.
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Investments worth 40 billion in the Öresund region – “A huge investment wave”
A new report reveals that medical companies in the Oresund region are investing like never before.
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New rules for diagnostic products, but who will certify them? “An extreme shortage area”
In less than two weeks, new and stricter EU rules will enter into force for thousands of products used in important diagnoses of, among other things, cancer and Covid-19. However, not one single institute in the entire Nordic region is able to certify the diagnostics companies’ products according to the new regulations. “In the end, it risks affecting patients,” says Anna Lefèvre Skjöldebrand, CEO of Swedish Medtech.
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Presenterar system som ska visa luftkvaliteten i realtid
Luftkvaliteten kan vara av stor vikt i labb- och vårdmiljöer, och även vid känslig läkemedelstillverkning. Anders Hedström, ledande expert inom luftrening, presenterar nu ett system som i realtid ska visa hur många partiklar, och av vilken sort, som
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Danskt konsultbolag växer i Sverige
Det danska konsultbolaget Epista Life Science förvärvar det svenska konsultbolaget Bruun & Maté.
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AI-diagnostik av malignt melanom prövas kliniskt
Startup-företaget AI Medical Technology inleder en klinisk prövning av sitt system för diagnos av malignt melanom på 30 svenska primärvårdskliniker.
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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.
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Paolo Macchiarini in court – “The sole intent was to cure”
Paolo Macchiarini’s surgical procedure was illegal, life-threatening and caused severe and prolonged suffering to patients the prosecution claimed when the trial against the Italian surgeon began on Wednesday last week.
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We will now publish more news in English – and offer yet another newsletter
Starting next week, Life Science Sweden will begin offering a newsletter entirely in English.
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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.
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Petter Hartman: Hög tid att höja prioriteten för säkerhetsfrågorna
Är svensk life science rustad för att möta ett förhöjt intresse från främmande makt med industrispionage och cyberattacker som följd? Och går det ens att skydda sig när svaren på våra hälsoutmaningar kräver öppenhet och internationellt samarbete? Svaret är ja, men det är hög tid för bolag och forskningsinstitutioner att ge säkerhetsfrågorna högre prioritet, skriver Petter Hartman i en krönika.
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Gradientech tar in Elisabet Nielsen som vetenskaplig rådgivare
Diagnostikbolaget Gradientech rekryterar Elisabet Nielsen som vetenskaplig rådgivare i bolagets internationella vetenskapliga råd. Hon är universitetslektor och docent i klinisk farmakologi vid Uppsala universitet.
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Göran Stiernstedt: "Vi är världssämst på kontinuitet"
Uteblivna satsningar på primärvården, ett orimligt system med nätläkare och ett statligt fiasko när det gäller att samordna vårdens it-system. Göran Stiernstedt skräder inte orden när han beskriver bristerna i dagens vårdsystem. – Det gör mig oerhört
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Lucy Robertshaw: Are we in the perfect storm?
“Is there a perfect storm on the horizon again as elective surgeries were cancelled due to patients being admitted with Covid-19? We now have a long backlog of people who are presenting with chronic diseases that need to access healthcare again”, writes Lucy Robertshaw in a column.
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Studie: Covidvaccin till gravida ökar inte risken för komplikationer för barnet
En stor registerstudie från Karolinska institutet pekar på att vaccin mot covid-19 under graviditet inte medför någon ökad risk för tidig födsel, tillväxthämning eller andra komplikationer för det nyfödda barnet.
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Digitalisera försäljningen och spring om konkurrenterna
Nytt acceleratorprogram till värde av 450.000 kr kommer att hjälpa utvalda bolag med den digitala omvandlingen genom Salesforces. Craftware Sweden, som är en del av telekom-koncernen Orange Group och en global Salesforce-partner sedan 2014, har startat programmet för svenska bolag som vill skala upp.
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This is how Anette Steenberg will put Medicon Valley on the world map
Anette Steenberg has been CEO of the Swedish-Danish life science cluster Medicon Valley Alliance since 1 November last year. Life Science Sweden called her to ask about her visions and the challenges of merging the worlds of Swedish and Danish life science.