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Tuffare konkurrens när Novo Nordisk-fonden breddar urvalet

Søren Nedergaard har arbetat med innovation på danska regeringskansliet och på universitetet i Köpenhamn. Idag är han operativ chef för Novo Nordisk-fonden som ...

Tirzepatid godkänns mot fetma av FDA – får varunamnet Zepbound

Nu godkänns ännu ett läkemedel som kan ge kraftig viktnedgång i USA och samma läkemedel får ett positivt utlåtande av den europeiska läkemedelsmyndigheten, vilk...

GSK pays 2.2 billion dollars to settle Zantac lawsuits

British drugmaker Glaxo Smith Kline, GSK, has struck a 2.2 billion dollar settlement, thereby resolving a vast majority of the liability cases pending against t...

Mikael Kubista back with new venture after turbulent exit

Entrepreneur and researcher Mikael Kubista is starting a new company. Now he is also free to comment on the sequence of events that led to him losing ownership ...

Column: ”Cheating with pea flowers and does it matter whether you are right?”

Is it possible to forgive shortcuts or outright cheating in science - if it turns out that the researcher was ultimately right? Anna Törner discuss this topic in a column.

Investigations against AstraZeneca: ”Chinese interests may be behind them”

Why are there several investigations against AstraZeneca employees in China right now? Life Science Sweden continues to seek answers.

Security flaw in Swedish breast cancer screening software – woman passed away

A lack of safeguard in Sectra's software led to a woman with breast cancer receiving an incorrect diagnosis. She later passed away. The software is used in 20 o...

Novo Nordisk Fonden stöder hjälparbete i Ukraina

FN:s flyktingorgan UNHCR får 5 miljoner danska kronor från Novo Nordisk Fonden för att ge akut hjälp i Ukraina.

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Fetmaläkemedel från Novo Nordisk prövas mot hjärt- kärlhändelser

Det danska läkemedelsbolaget Novo Nordisk genomför för närvarande Select-studien där bolaget undersöker om huruvida bolagets fetmaläkemedel Wegovy kan minska ri...

This years Nobel prize in medicine – “Changed the understanding of how genes are controlled”

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to the discovery that small RNA molecules, known as microRNAs, control how genes are regulated. Understan...

Anna Törner: Yes, I Am Sick, But Not Weak

”People often say that someone who is ill only has one wish—to get better. But I think that is not true. Someone who is ill also longs to be understood, to be r...

Automated nitrogen analysis reduces costs per sample

N-Realizer analytical system from C. Gerhardt increases productivity with valve block from Festo

Total pipeline of pharmaceutical companies reaches a record high – 22,921 medicines are currently being developed

Despite the difficult economic times, pharmaceutical companies have never developed as many new drugs as now.

Nanexa utvecklar depåberedning av diabetes- och fetmaläkemedlet Saxenda

Uppsalabaserade Nanexa har slutit ett avtal med ett tyskt kontraktsforskningsbolag för att starta en klinisk studie med en månadsdepå av liraglutid. Läkemedlet ...

Nanexa develops depot formulation of the diabetes and obesity drug Saxenda

Uppsala-based company Nanexa has signed an agreement with a German contract research company to start a clinical study with a monthly depot of liraglutide. The ...

“Don’t postpone the transition to IVDR”

Operators who have not yet started to adapt to the requirements of the new EU IVDR regulation are running out of excuses. This is the opinion of Helena Dzojic, ...

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...

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...

Pfizer’s record year – topped the $100 billion mark

In 2022 Pfizer, as the first pharmaceutical company in history, reached an annual revenue of more than 100 billion dollars, thereby surpassing Johnson & Johnson...

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 in...

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 differ...

Anna Törner: ”Wegovy kommer få användning långt utöver de rent medicinska indikationerna”

Wegovy är avsedd för rejält överviktiga, men förskrivningen kommer knappast att begränsas till dem som har en svårt medicinskt belastande övervikt, skriver Anna...