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The future of healthcare in focus: ”Together, things happen”
In march, it’s once again time for Fokus Patient, an event for the industry where the patients’ perspective takes center stage. It’s a great way to spread knowledge in Sweden and around the world, according to the initiator Penilla Gunther
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Life science trends 2025 – Part 1 obesity drugs
More obesity drugs are being launched this year following Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly's previous successes with GLP-1 drugs. But the next big breakthrough in obesity has a different mechanism of action, writes Samuel Lagercrantz in the first article
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New cell therapy raises hope for curing type 1 diabetes – "Never succeeded before"
For the first time, a patient with type 1 diabetes has undergone an islet transplantation using genetically modified insulin-producing cells that do not require immunosuppressive drugs. "A major immunological breakthrough," says Professor Per-Ola Carlsson, who leads the clinical study, to Life Science Sweden.
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Rise and Scantox cease conducting animal testing in Stockholm
Access to in vivo toxicology services is significantly decreasing in the Stockholm area as Rise shuts down animal testing and Scantox reorganizes. ”The costs are high, and demand is weak”, says the division manager at Rise to Life Science Sweden.
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Partial court victory for entrepreneur who lost his company
Swedish life science entrepreneur Mikael Kubista has won the first round against a law firm that he, along with other co-owners, sued for negligent advice in connection with losing his company, Tataa Biocenter.
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Norwegian cancer research companies merge
The Norwegian companies Ultimovacs and Zelluna Immunotherapy plan to merge. At the same time, it is made clear that Ultimovacs' CEO is leaving the company.
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”Det blir aldrig som man tänkt sig, men ofta bättre”
Intresset för knutar, knopar och att bygga saker fanns sedan barnsben – men skulle få helt andra dimensioner långt senare. ”Plötsligt upptäckte jag att DNA, det kan man ju snickra med”, säger Ulf Landegren, legendarisk Uppsalaforskare, uppfinnare och företagsbyggare.
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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
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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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Trumps nya FDA-chef varnar för "massiv övermedicinering"
Donald Trump har nominerat kirurgen och författaren Marty Makary till ny chef för den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA, som enligt den tillträdande presidenten har ”förlorat amerikanernas förtroende”.
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Xbrane enters licensing agreement with Indian generics giant
Swedish biosimilar developer Xbrane Biopharma and the Indian company Intas Pharmaceuticals have entered into a license and co-development agreement.
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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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”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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Leo Pharma to cut 200 jobs and reorganize
Danish Leo Pharma cuts down on staff in its global operations. Around 200 positions will be cut, while 50 will be moved to Poland.
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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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AstraZeneca to use American AI platform for cancer trials
In a collaboration AstraZeneca will use an AI model from Israeli-American biotech Immunai to streamline its clinical trials in cancer.
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Obesity-drug pioneers win Lasker Award
This year’s Lasker Prize in Clinical Research has been awarded to three researchers for their discoveries in GLP-1-based drugs that, according to the jury, “have revolutionised the treatment of obesity”. Among others, Novo Nordisk’s Lotte Bjerre Knudsen is honoured.
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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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Sobi announces agreement with Enable Injections
Swedish biopharma Sobi has entered into an international development and distribution agreement with US drug delivery company Enable Injections.
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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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Danska läkemedelsfonder investerar i talangfabrik
Novo Nordisk Foundation, Lundbeck Foundation och Leo Foundation investerar 123 miljoner danska kronor, motsvarande omkring 188 miljoner svenska kronor, i ett nytt utbildningscentrum för Köpenhamns universitet och Syddansk universitet i Odense.
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Astra Zeneca-medarbetare gripna i Kina
Fem nuvarande eller tidigare anställda hos Astra Zeneca har gripits av kinesisk polis, misstänkta för smuggling och överträdelse av Kinas dataskyddslagar
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Kris för hajpat genredigeringsbolag – ”Stämningen har skiftat”
Upp som en sol, ner som en pannkaka. Så kan utvecklingen för det upphaussade amerikanska genredigeringsbolaget Tome Biosciences beskrivas.
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