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Julefrid ger läsetid – 10 artikeltips från redaktionen
När julstöket är avklarat, magen fått sitt och släkten avlägsnat sig lägger sig den stora friden – och kanske vaknar läslusten?
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Samuel Lagercrantz: We are currently seeing medical breakthroughs in these areas
Samuel Lagercrantz, Editor in Chief of Life Science Sweden, lists three medical fields in which we are currently seeing major breakthroughs and two fields in which we can see some long-awaited positive developments.
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Chat GPT gav fel svar och hittade på referenser
Enligt en ny amerikansk studie kan Chat GPT vara farlig att vända sig till med medicinska frågor. Men att den hajpade chattboten hittar på egna fakta förvånar inte läkaren och AI-profilen Max Gordon.
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The art of building a biologic drug
The first biosimilar from Xbrane Biopharma was launched earlier this year, and several more are under development at the company’s facility in Solna, Sweden. “We do everything in-house ‒ from DNA fragments to a final process,” says David Vikström, Chief Technology Officer at the company.
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Studie med antifetmapiller avbryts efter biverkningar
Pfizer har beslutat att inte gå vidare med sin viktminskningskandidat danuglipron i den version som ska intas i tablettform två gånger om dagen. Orsaken är de biverkningar som behandlingen gett.
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Roche köper bolag inom fetmaområdet
Schweiziska Roche förvärvar det amerikanska bioteknikbolaget Carmot Theraputics i en miljardaffär. Bolaget utvecklar läkemedel mot fetma.
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The Swedish innovation model: “There is a paradox”
It is often said that Sweden is strong when it comes to innovation, but how well are we turning that innovation into actual medicines?
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Larm om vaccinbrist efter utbrott av difteri i Västafrika
Ett allvarligt utbrott av difteri har drabbat Västafrika. Nu varnar Läkare utan gränser för brist på läkemedel och vaccin mot sjukdomen.
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Life science-profil på nytt jobb
Jennie Ekbeck, tidigare vd för Umeå Biotech Incubator, kommer fortsättningsvis att arbeta med affärsidéer inom life science i Östergötland.
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Life science-profil utnämnd till ”årets vd”
När den europeiska lifescience-industrin samlades gick utnämningen "årets vd" till svenska Gunilla Osswald.
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The Swedish Academy of Sciences: “We have too many researchers”
Sweden does not need more researchers, but it does need better ones. According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, funding should be distributed to favour excellence.
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Kinagodkännande och misslyckad lungcancerstudie för Astra Zeneca
Astra Zeneca har fått ett godkännande i Kina för läkemedlet Imfinzi i kombination med cellgifter vid behandling av lokal eller spridd gallvägscancer. Samtidigt kommer negativa besked från en fas III-studie med samma läkemedel för en annan indikation.
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Founder of Bioarctic, Lars Lannfelt, is honoured: “I want to create something for the future”
It´s like a scientist’s dream: to be the world’s first with a drug that genuinely affects one of our major diseases. Lars Lannfelt and his company Bioarctic have achieved just that, and they are thus making a significant contribution to the history of Swedish medicine. He is now being awarded the Research!Sweden Award 2023.
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High-tech companies are increasingly focusing on health
Tech companies have been taking an interest in healthcare for many years, and this interest seems to be increasing. “It’s not a sudden shift in trend, it’s more about them advancing their positions,” says Anna Lefevre Skjöldebrand, CEO of Swedish Medtech.
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Study: Cancer vaccine prolongs survival in difficult-to-treat tumour disease
According to a new study, a combination of a cancer vaccine from Norwegian company Ultimovacs and two immunotherapies significantly prolonged survival in cases of the aggressive cancer mesothelioma.
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Alzecure får patent i Japan för läkemedelskandidat
Alzecure Pharmas läkemedelskandidat, ACD856, för behandling av Alzheimer har beviljats patent av det japanska patentverket.
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Novo Nordisk buys drug candidate in billion dollar deal
The Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk have made an agreement with KBP Biosciences to aqcuire the hypertension drug ocedurenone for up to 1.3 billion dollars, which corresponds to approximately 14 billion Swedish kronor.
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The physician at the tech giant: “Observations in the emergency room made my mind up”
When Nasim Farrokhnia was in third grade at school in Tehran, the capital of Iran, her father gave her a book about Marie Curie, which soon became her favourite book. Perhaps her interest in science was born there and then, as science and new technology
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Rickard Sandberg on this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine: ”A key discovery”
The discovery that paved the way for the development of todays mRNA vaccines is the basis for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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The first drugs to slow down Alzheimer’s – but what does it mean for patients?
New treatments for early Alzheimer’s are bringing hope to thousands of patients and their families. The question is, who will get the treatment, how will the right patients be found in time, and will the healthcare system’s resources be sufficient? Life
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Oncopeptides avbryter ansökan om utökad indikation för Pepaxti
Forskningsbolaget Oncopeptides avbryter ansökningsprocessen i EU som skulle ge blodcancerläkemedlet Pepaxti tillgång även till tidigare behandlingslinjer för patienter med multipelt myelom.
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Astra Zeneca’s Sweden CEO: “We have great faith in our portfolio”
It all started with a summer job as an operator at Astra’s chemical factory in Snäckviken, just outside Södertälje. More than three decades and countless different assignments later, Per Alfredsson, born and raised in Södertälje, is CEO of Astra Zeneca Sweden, which employs 7800 people in Södertälje, Stockholm and Gothenburg. “It was a very special feeling to be in charge of the entire organisation,” he says in an interview about his career and potential future blockbusters.
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Samuel Lagercrantz: A special kind of hellishness afflicts post-COVID patients
In addition to the disease itself those suffering from post-COVID have to deal with people who try to label them as hypochondriacs, writes Samuel Lagercrantz in an editorial.
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Here are the pharmaceutical companies best prepared for AI
How well prepared are pharmaceutical companies in the field of artificial intelligence? That is what a new analysis has tried to evaluate.
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