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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 Research and Development Manager Robert Rönn.
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Regioner stänger mottagningar för postcovid
Tre regioner lägger ner sina mottagningar för postcovid trots högt söktryck, uppger Sveriges Radio Ekot.
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Stockholm missade internationell kongress med tre röster
Stockholm ansökte om att bli värd för den internationella kongressen IUPESM 2028. Men huvudstaden föll på målsnöret.
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Ojämställt i toppen hos Uppsalas life science-företag
STUNS Life science i Uppsala har undersökt hur jämställdhet mellan man och kvinna ser ut i regionens life science-företag. Och trots att Sverige hör till ett av världens mest jämställda länder, är den kvinnliga representationen låg på ledningsposter i Uppsala.
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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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WHO kan utfärda internationellt hälsonödläge för apkoppsviruset
WHO överväger att utfärda ett internationellt hälsonödläge med anledning av spridningen av apkoppsviruset. Samtidigt vill forskare att man byter namn på viruset och sjukdomen.
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The first vaccine derived from cowpox
The British rural doctor could not forget the words of the peasant girl. Could that really be true? A couple of decades later, on 14 May 1796, he performed the world’s first smallpox vaccination, and a medical breakthrough had occurred.
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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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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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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
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Elicera develops CAR-T against solid tumours – may become the first in the world
Today, there are five EU-approved CAR-T therapies, all focused on different types of blood cancer, but no one has yet succeeded in making the method work against solid tumours. At Gothenburg-based Elicera, they are working relentlessly to succeed in that field as well. “It is the largest field, and the potential is enormous,” says the company’s CEO Jamal El-Mosleh.
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Österrike slopar vaccintvånget
Under onsdagen beslutade regeringen i Österrike att ta bort det lagstadgade vaccinkravet mot covid-19 som infördes i början av februari.
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Han är Tegnells ersättare
Anders Tegnell lämnar Folkhälsomyndigheten på måndag nästa vecka. Näste man att stiga in som statsepidemiolog blir Anders Lindblom.
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CAR-T therapies give continued hope: “Almost half of the patients have become disease-free”
When the first CAR-T therapies appeared, hopes were raised for the effective treatment for critically ill cancer patients. After a somewhat sluggish start, about 90 patients in Sweden have now been treated with this method. “Almost half of them have become disease-free, at least of those treated with Yescarta, which are the ones I know best,” says Gunilla Enblad, Chairman of the national working group for CAR-T treatment.
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Björn Arvidsson: ”We need to change perspective”
If you say “life science” to a person on the street and ask them to explain what it is, you will probably get no good answer. The same question to your network will generate as many versions as the people you ask. Most likely, we will miss many opportunities with our lack of communication, writes Björn Arvidsson in a column.
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Företag, fackförbund och myndigheter gör gemensam sak för att hjälpa Ukraina
Arjo stoppar leveranser till Ryssland och skänker sjukhussängar till Ukraina. Bactiguard skänker intensivvårdsutrustning till landet och Novartis ger 3 miljoner amerikanska dollar. Det är några exempel på hur branschen sluter upp bakom den ukrainska folket.
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CAR-T-terapier inger fortsatt hopp: ”Nästan hälften har blivit sjukdomsfria”
När de första CAR-T-terapierna dök upp väcktes förhoppningar om effektiv behandling för svårt sjuka cancerpatienter. Efter en något trög start har nu omkring 90 patienter i Sverige behandlats med metoden. – Nästan hälften har blivit sjukdomsfria, åtminstone när det gäller behandling med Yescarta som jag känner bäst till, säger Gunilla Enblad, ordförande för den nationella arbetsgruppen för CAR T-behandling, till Life Science Sweden.
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Marie Gårdmark: Finally, it’s time for a revision of the EU pharma legislation
A challenge for the EU Commission is to deliver a new framework that will also take care of another “pillar” of the pharmaceutical strategy, namely, to ensure that new medicines will be available for all citizens in Europe, writes Marie Gårdmark in a column.
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Realhearts styrelseordförande har avlidit
Realhearts styrelseordförande Göran Hellers avled i helgen till följd av plötslig sjukdom, meddelar företaget.
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“Together Stockholm-Uppsala and Medicon Valley can make Scandinavia a leading life science region”
“Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland all have national life science strategies, but the Swedish strategy is the only one explicitly emphasizing the Nordic dimension. But what if the leading life science nations, Denmark and Sweden, joined forces, took the lead and pioneered Nordic life science collaboration? Wouldn´t we then be able to "bake a bigger cake?", writes Anette Steenberg and Ulf G. Andersson in a debate article.
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Stockholm aims at becoming one of the world’s top life science regions
Regional Chair for Finance, Irene Svenonius (M), believes that Stockholm can realise the goal of becoming one of the world’s top 5 regions in life science by 2025. One step on the way to achieve this is by hosting a world-leading congress in medtech.
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Anna Törner: Success requires bold decisions!
“Doing things right is fine, but doing the right things as soon as possible is even better”, writes Anna Törner in a column.
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Giulia Gaudenzi: Innovation for good
"I challenge the innovator landscape to take a mental leap. Relying on innovation-solely to end inequality is not enough, therefore consciously and purposively – we need to engage bravely with the politics of poverty and scarcity. Even in life sciences", writes Giulia Gaudenzi in a column.
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