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Rise och Scantox slopar djurförsök i Stockholm
Tillgången till tjänster inom in vivo toxikologi krymper kraftigt i Stockholmsområdet när Rise lägger ner djurförsöken och Scantox omorganiserar. ”Det är höga kostnader och svag efterfrågan”, säger divisionschefen på Rise till Life Science Sweden.
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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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”Forskning är alltid en massa misslyckanden och några få succéer”
Genterapier öppnar fantastiska möjligheter, men är också extremt dyra att producera. Genenova ska ändra på det – och göra läkemedlen tillgängliga för fler. ”Vår övergripande ambition är att minska kostnaderna hundrafalt”, säger KTH-professorn Johan Rockberg.
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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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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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Lista: ATMP som fått grönt ljus i Sverige
Avancerade terapiläkemedel (ATMP) är på allas läppar i life science-sektorn. Men vilka ATMP används egentligen i svensk sjukvård? Och hur fungerar de?
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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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”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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A new life science cluster formed – “We are very strong in talent”
Stockholm and Uppsala’s joint life science cluster aims to be among the best in Europe. Pontus Holm, Life Science Coordinator for Region Stockholm, says the decision to create a joint profile for the two cities is strongly supported. He mentions that around 50 stakeholders were asked last winter if they were in favour of a joint cluster and that “the answer was a resounding yes”.
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Ny kartläggning: Så stor är svenska life science-sektorn
I en ny rapport från Vinnova kartläggs den svenska life science-sektorn med närmare 4 000 företag och en bra bit över 50 000 anställda.
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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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“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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Siemens Healthineers köper del av Novartis
Tyska Siemens Healthineers planerar att köpa Novartis verksamhet AAA Diagnostics, som producerar radioaktiva kemikalier för bland annat cancerdiagnostik. Det rapporterar Financial Times.
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Tidigare Tobii-chef blir vd för Surgical Science
Tom Englund, tidigare toppnamn inom Tobii-koncernen, är nuvarande operativ chef för Instabee. Nu lämnar han budbolaget och återvänder till medicinteknikfältet när han blir vd för Surgical Science i oktober.
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Gothenburg, the city of life science – We are ‘Little Boston’
Western Sweden is investing in life science within everything from advanced therapeutic drugs to femtech. At the same time, stakeholders are looking to other industries for inspiration and knowledge.
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Innovative start-up helps doctors, scientists and industry balance coagulation risks
For many doctors caring for seriously ill patients, for example, in stroke units and cancer wards, maintaining the life-saving balance between bleeding and thrombosis is an ongoing challenge. In the late 1980s, scientists at Maastricht University in the Netherlands developed an innovative method, the thrombin generation assay (TGA), which provides a complete overview of a physiological process crucial for maintaining normal haemostasis.
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Carl Borrebaeck – professor and serial entrepreneur with a taste for speed
Award-winning cancer researcher, the founder of many listed companies, and constantly in the academic and commercial spotlight for decades. However, Carl Borrebaeck, Professor of Immunotechnology at Lund, is not yet satisfied. “We have a new, potentially super exciting project in the pipeline,” he says.
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Bakteriofager – ”Ett fält som står inför en pånyttfödsel”
För tio år sedan kallades fagterapi för ”det bortglömda botemedlet”. Men i takt med att antibiotikaresistens breder ut sig vinner den nygamla tekniken mer och mer mark i Europa. Life Science Sweden har pratat om framtiden med forskare som sysslar med antibiotikaresistens respektive bakteriofager.
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Ancient DNA provides new insights – “The immune system lost its job”
Ancient bone remains from our ancestors have provided new insights into the prevalence of multiple sclerosis. By looking back in time, researchers can provide a possible explanation for why the disease is more prevalent in northern Europe.
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List: The coolest names in biotech
Hairy beasts, volcanic material and space strolling stand out on a US list of the best biotech company names, and on a list of the coolest names for pharmaceuticals, a Swedish, or at least Swedish-British, drug came out on top.
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Anställningsstopp och nedskärningar i Region Dalarna
Sedan tidigare står det klart att en tredjedel av tjänsterna inom vårdnära service försvinner i Region Dalarna. Nu har regionstyrelsen också beslutat om ett generellt anställningsstopp för att kämpa mot ett växande underskott.
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Anna Törner: ”Orphan Designation – the "petite robe noire" of drug development”
It is easy to cling to various regulatory incentives, like orphan designation, and other expedited pathways, without understanding what they truly mean or whether they are indeed right (or wrong) for the current project, Anna Törner writes in a column.
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Specific proposals and targets top the universities’ desired priorities
What are the universities’ expectations for the update of the national life science strategy? Life Science Sweden posed the question to representatives from Karolinska Institutet and Sahlgrenska Academy.
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Elon Musk: Första Neuralink-patienten kan styra dator med tanken
Den första patienten som har fått ett hjärnchip från Neuralink inopererat kan nu flytta en muspekare – enbart genom att tänka. Det uppgav det spektakulära projektets grundare Elon Musk på måndagen.
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