Event: Drug Development – Serendipity or Science

Drug development is a challenging journey, we will discuss questions you may not even consider asking. SDS and Medicon Village welcome you to an engaging afternoon.

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 ...

Marie Gårdmark: Finally, it’s time for a revision of the EU pharma legislation

A challenge for the EU Commission is to deliver a new framework that will also take care of another “pillar” of the pharmaceutical strategy, namely, to ensure t...

Rapport: Så kan rest- och bristsituationer av läkemedel förebyggas

Läkemedelsverket presenterar i en ny delrapport ett 30-tal åtgärder för att förbättra tillgången till läkemedel.

New rules for diagnostic products, but who will certify them? “An extreme shortage area”

In less than two weeks, new and stricter EU rules will enter into force for thousands of products used in important diagnoses of, among other things, cancer and...

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...

Valves with piezo technology

Efficient control and regulation of gases in medical technology

Ojämställt i toppen hos Uppsalas life science-företag

STUNS Life science i Uppsala har undersökt hur jämställdhet mellan man och kvinna ser ut i regionens life science-företag. Och trots att Sverige hör till ett av...

Roche investerar 480 miljarder i USA-satsning

Schweiziska Roche planerar att satsa 50 miljarder dollar, motsvarande cirka 480 miljarder kronor, i USA de närmaste fem åren. När investeringarna är genomförda ...

Celluminova får särläkemedelstatus i EU

Linköpingsbolaget Celluminovas läkemedelskandidat för detektion av tumördrivande celler i patienter med en form av elakartade hjärntumörer har fått särläkemedelsstatus i EU.

Individual DNA passport could result in fewer drug side effects

You may be required to show a DNA passport when you pick up medicines at the pharmacy in the future. According to a new study, patients might suffer 30% fewer s...

Biosimilars bring price pressure, but are they sufficiently used?

When biosimilars were introduced just over 16 years ago, hopes were raised that they would give many more patients access to effective but otherwise extremely e...

Investments worth 40 billion in the Öresund region – “A huge investment wave”

A new report reveals that medical companies in the Oresund region are investing like never before.

The government proposes fines for pharmaceutical companies that fail to notify drug shortages in time

According to a compilation from the Swedish Medicines Agency, the number of residually notified medicines increased by 54 % in Sweden last year compared to the ...

“We need to build flexible operating theatres”

Flexible operating theatres, micro-sensors on surgeons to monitor their well-being and 3D images projected onto organs to be operated on. These are a few ideas ...

Nya turer kring Nykodes ledning – drar tillbaka avhoppen

Norska Nykode Therapeutics får tillbaka de delar av ledningen som tidigare aviserade att de lämnar bolaget.

Lucka 23 - detta läste ni mest

Bakom denna lucka tar vi en titt på det som lockade allra mest till läsning under 2018. Uppsägningar, visselblåsare och peptider är några av ämnena...

Failed to read the fine print – lost his life’s work

A celebrated CEO and co-founder of a pioneering lab company one moment – the next, fired, kicked out and written out of the company’s history. This is the story...

Cadila Pharmaceuticals Sweden AB

Lucy Robertshaw: Did you know Stockholm wants to be in top 5 in the world for Life Sciences?

Karolinska Institutet Solna Campus has certainly become the next “Kendall Square”, writes Lucy Robertshaw in a column.

New moves around Nykode's management – withdrawal of resignations

Norwegian Nykode Therapeutics is reinstating members of the management team who previously announced their resignations.

Neanderthal genes and Nobel Prize in a popular lecture at Bioscience

An inherited gene variant from our ”evolutionary cousins” – the extinct Neanderthals – may affect how our bodies break down certain drugs. “It’s only a matter o...

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 ...

Lucka 23 - vem finns här?

Varje dag fram till jul får vi här veta vad profiler i life science-världen har på sin önskelista.