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Synact köper schweiziskt bolag — medtechprofiler går in som ägare
Bioteknikbolaget Synact har tecknat avtal om förvärv av schweiziska TXP Pharma, som utvecklar läkemedel mot autoimmuna och inflammatoriska sjukdomar. Samtidigt genomför bolaget en nyemission på 80 miljoner kronor.
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The stomach medication that became the biggest blockbuster of the 1990s
The omeprazole molecule was synthesised as early as 1979, but it took many years before the then Astra had an approved pharmaceutical. Once this happened, a tablet was available that was soon to help millions of people worldwide and break all sales
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EU:s inköp av covidvaccin utreds av åklagare
Ursula von der Leyen.
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Cytel Inc acquires the SDS Group
The multinational statistical software developer and contract research organization Cytel Inc, headquartered in Massachusetts, USA, acquires the Swedish consulting company SDS Life Science.
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Pharmnovo rekryterar dubbelt inför kliniska prövningar
Pharmnovo gör två nya rekryteringar för att förstärka sitt team när utvecklingen av bolagets läkemedelskandidat mot nervsmärta nu går in i klinisk fas.
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Promising Alzheimer’s study data sends Bioarctic stock soaring
The drug candidate lecanemab from Swedish company Bioarctic significantly slowed down the deterioration in patients with early on-set Alzheimer’s, according to preliminary results from a phase III study.
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Biosimilars bring price pressure, but are they sufficiently used?
When biosimilars were introduced just over 16 years ago, hopes were raised that they would give many more patients access to effective but otherwise extremely expensive treatments with biological drugs. So, how well has Swedish healthcare used biosimilars? The answer partly depends on whom you ask.
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KVA:s nya preses – ”Forskning är en livsstil”
Under sommaren tillträdde Birgitta Henriques Normark som preses för Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien. Life Science Sweden träffade henne i Vetenskapsakademiens pampiga byggnad vid Frescati i Stockholm i slutet av maj för att prata om forskning och om hennes nya uppdrag.
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Pharmnovo startar kliniska studier – och förstärker sitt team
I augusti startade läkemedelsbolaget Pharmnovo kliniska studier av bolagets läkemedelskandidat mot nervsmärta. Nu meddelar bolaget att de stärker upp organisationen med Tommy Nilsson som CFO och Jarkko Kalliomäki som ledare för det kliniska arbetet.
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Studie med läkemedel mot nervsmärta startar
Lundaföretaget Pharmnovo påbörjar nu kliniska studier med sin läkemedelskandidat mot neuropatisk smärta.
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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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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 he also highlights a study that points out that companies with a high degree of interaction with other companies achieve greater success.
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Redaktionens sommartips – böcker, poddar och tv-serier
Nu stundar sommar, semester och äntligen en chans att läsa den där boken, lyssna på den där podden eller se den där filmen som inte hanns med tidigare. Här tipsar Life Science Swedens redaktion om lämpligt tidsfördriv eller förkovran under årets mest avkopplande dagar.
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Nyemission ska ta Pharmnovos behandling mot nervsmärta till klinisk prövning
Lundbaserade Pharmnovo har tagit in 67 miljoner kronor i en nyemission för att finansiera vidare utveckling av bolagets läkemedelskandidat mot nervsmärta.
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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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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
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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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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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Studie: Immunsystemet känsligt i månader efter mild covid-19
En mild infektion av covid-19 kan leda till långvariga besvär. Enligt en ny studie kan makrofager få ett förändrat inflammatoriskt och metaboliskt uttryck under flera månader efter infektion av sars-cov-2.
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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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The route to vaccines for everyone: “We did not just sit around and wait”
The pandemic was in full swing, and no one knew when or even if a vaccine would come. At that point, the Swedish Minister of Social Affairs called with a proposal, and Richard Bergström did not hesitate. “I already had a notion that this would work,” he says in an interview with Life Science Sweden.