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Lista: Årets mest framstående medicinska uppfinningar
Den subkutana formen av det svenskutvecklade alzheimerläkemedlet Leqembi lyfts fram när Time presenterar sin årliga lista över de bästa uppfinningarna 2025.
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Billion-Dollar Deal Sends BioArctic Soaring
Swedish Alzheimer-focused company BioArctic has entered into a licensing collaboration with Novartis regarding a technology aimed at enhancing efficient drug delivery to the brain. The BioArctic stock surged significantly following the announcement.
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Anocca raises SEK 440 million ahead of clinical cancer trial
Swedish cell therapy biotech Anocca has successfully raised SEK 440 million in a new funding round to support upcoming clinical trials in pancreatic cancer.
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Allogene discontinues investigational antibody following patient death
U.S. biotechnology company Allogene Therapeutics is fully discontinuing the use of its experimental antibody ALLO-647 following the death of a patient in its pivotal CAR-T trial.
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Novo Nordisk cuts ties with Hims & Hers after Wegovy dispute
Novo Nordisk is ending its collaboration with Hims & Hers Health due to concerns about the company’s sales and marketing practices related to the weight-loss drug Wegovy.
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Getinge and Neobiomics received Swecare's export awards
Two companies received awards during Swecare's annual conference.
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De fick Swecares exportpris
Två företag mottog priser under Swecares årskonferens.
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Dödsstraff yrkas för mordet på amerikansk vård-vd
Åklagarsidan kommer att yrka på dödsstraff för Luigi Mangione, som står inför rätta för mordet på sjukvårdsförsäkringsbolaget United Healths vd Brian Thompson i New York i fjol.
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New moves around Nykode's management – withdrawal of resignations
Norwegian Nykode Therapeutics is reinstating members of the management team who previously announced their resignations.
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From pharmacist to life science podcaster – Magnus Lejelöv uses his voice as a tool
Magnus Lejelöv has more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and has conducted nearly two hundred interviews with healthcare professionals on his podcasts.
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Korbinian Löbmann leads scientific meeting on drug formulation: High activity in the field
Korbinian Löbmann has moderated New Updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability several times before. Now he is once again taking on the scientific meeting. Life Science Sweden reached out to him.
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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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Framtidens vård i fokus: ”Tillsammans händer det grejer”
I mars är det återigen dags för Fokus Patient, ett event för branschen där patienternas perspektiv är i fokus. Ett bra sätt att sprida kunskap i Sverige och i världen, enligt initiativtagaren Penilla Gunther.
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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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Dubbla bakslag för ALS-projekt – ”Inte vad vi hoppats på”
Förhoppningarna om att utveckla en ny typ av behandling mot nervsjukdomen ALS har fått sig en törn när två läkemedelskandidater misslyckats med att nå sina primära effektmått i en fas II/III-studie.
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Fyra pilotprojekt utvalda i life science-satsning
Bridge Sweden, projektet som går ut på underlätta identifiering och produktion av nya läkemedel, har valt ut sina första projekt.
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Amerikansk vård-vd sköts till döds på öppen gata
Vd:n för det amerikanska hälsovårdsbolaget United Healthcare, Brian Thompson, sköts ihjäl på Manhattan i New York på onsdagsmorgonen.
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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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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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From lab to patient – the art of developing new antibody therapies
For 25 years, Danish company Genmab has been developing antibodies and has managed to get several drugs all the way to the patient. Esther Breij has been along for much of the journey and has experienced setbacks, but also huge discoveries. “It’s amazing when you succeed,” she says.
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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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Bio Europe to Stockholm – ”The Swedish ecosystem is now taking the opportunity”
The international life science conference Bio Europe is coming to Sweden for the first time in November. The conference, whose program takes inspiration from ABBA songs, turns 30 this year. "There is great interest in Sweden and Swedish solutions globally," says Anna Redwood from Business Sweden.
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“Conducting research at universities is becoming more and more like working at a research hotel”
The government wants Swedish research to focus on excellence and innovation, but can the two be combined? Life Science Sweden talks to Anna Falk, a professor at Lund University, about research policy, the constant hunt for funding in academia and what constitutes ‘fine research’.
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KI’s freezer fiasco investigated: A chain of failures
A chain of combined technical and organisational shortcomings caused the freezer breakdown at the Karolinska Institute during the Christmas holidays, destroying more than 47,000 samples. This was the conclusion of an internal investigation.
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