Nanexa ingår avtal med Novo Nordisk om 46 miljoner

He is zooming in on topical preparations

According to Zelmic CEO David Sagna, topical products in drug development is a growing market, and to keep pace with the development, the company is awaiting approval for its new GMP facility.

Klaria tar in finansiering inför ansökan i EU: "Står inför ett transformativt år"

Klaria Pharma har beslutat om en nyemission på upp till 74 miljoner kronor. Syftet är att finansiera fortsatt utveckling och kommersialisering av företagets alginatfilm för drug delivery via munslemhinnan.

Alert from the Swedish Medicines Agency: Many complications with gastric balloons

According to the Swedish Medicines Agency, an increasing number of serious complications are being reported in procedures with gastric balloons as a method for weight loss. The authority fears significant shortcomings in the information to patients both before and after the procedure.

Klaria i spanskt samarbete om munfilm från alger

Uppsalabaserade Klaria Pharma har tecknat avtal med det spanska läkemedelsbolaget Pharmamar om utveckling av en alginatfilmsformulering till en av Pharmamars substanser. En gemensam faktor för bolagen är att bägge utvinner sina produkter ur substanser från havet.

Bought a tablet factory – and built his own empire

In 1995, Thomas Eldered was CEO of one of Pharmacia’s factories in the Stockholm area when the Swedish pharmaceutical giant, after a takeover, decided to move its production abroad. 34-year-old Thomas was facing an imminent risk of losing his job. However, instead, it actually turned out to be the starting point for one of the biggest success stories in Swedish life science.

Anna Törner: Kalashnikovs in a new guise

Thanks to resisting European regulatory authorities, Europe has been spared the opioid epidemic. In the 1960s, the situation was the opposite as the American pharmaceutical authority, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), refused to approve thalidomide

Nanexa skriver avtal med globalt läkemedelsbolag

Det Uppsala-baserade bolaget Nanexa har tecknat ett Material Transfer and Feasibility Study Agreement men en global aktör.

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

Amorfa material i centrum när Orexo tar fram nya formuleringar

Snabb upplösning, men med bibehållen stabilitet. Orexos nya drug delivery-plattform tar itu med problematiken hos amorfa material. "Vår teknologi har de positiva egenskaperna hos materialet, och kommer samtidigt runt en del av problemen", säger bolagets

Anna Törner: To kill your darlings

Hopes were high when Anna Törner and her colleague started a study on a dietary supplement that seemed unbelievably good. “Enthusiastically, we dreamed of exciting results and perhaps a publication in a high-impact journal,” she writes in a column.

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

Läkemedel mot avstötning kombineras med Klarias alginatfilm

Uppsalabolaget Klaria Pharma har ingått ett avtal med tyska Fluimed Gmbh om att kombinera företagets drug-delivery-teknik via munslemhinnan med ett läkemedel som motverkar avstötning av transplanterade organ.

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.

“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.

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.

Nanexa får patent i USA

Nanoteknikbolaget Nanexa har beviljats patent i USA för sin ADL-reaktor.