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Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB

The top five most expensive drugs in 2025

New advanced therapeutic medicines are reaching the market, but their price tags remain exceptionally high. This year’s ranking of the most expensive drugs in t...

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Starting next week, Life Science Sweden will begin offering a newsletter entirely in English.

Study: Semaglutide tablet produces weight loss

The pharmaceutical semaglutide is effective for weight loss even when given in tablet form, according to a phase 3 study.

Ingrid Lönnstedt: Demystification of the power of a scientific study

”You surely do realize that even the smallest changes in study assumptions may influence the estimated sample size needed. And how is it even possible to guess ...

Implantatföretags grundare lämnar vd-posten

Medtechbolaget Integrums grundare Rickard Brånemark lämnar vd-posten och får i stället en rådgivande roll i bolaget. Ny tillförordnad vd är styrelseledamoten Scott Flora.

Branschen om nya strategin – efterlyser konkretisering

Regeringens uppdaterade life science-strategi får beröm av branschen för sin ambitionsnivå när det gäller förbättrad konkurrenskraft, men samtidigt efterlyses k...

Trumps nya FDA-chef varnar för "massiv övermedicinering"

Donald Trump har nominerat kirurgen och författaren Marty Makary till ny chef för den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA, som enligt den tillträdande preside...

Nu tar vi Bioscience till Göteborg

Life Science Sweden håller för första gången ett event i Göteborg.

The pandemic caused a reshuffle among the world’s vaccine giants – here is the new top list

Fuelled by the pandemic, the power balance in the global vaccine market has completely changed in recent years, a survey from Fierce Pharma shows

De guidar till branschens dolda jobb

Vad får du inte missa att lyfta fram när du letar nytt jobb inom life science? Och hur hittar du de dolda jobben? En ny kurs ska guida dig till drömjobbet.

Glada miner över storsatsning – ”Kommer stärka Sveriges konkurrenskraft”

Regeringen har presenterat förslaget om en historiskt stor satsning på forskning och innovation. Life Science Sweden har samlat in reaktioner från branschen och akademin.

Ranking: Top 10 highest-paid CEOs in pharma

It's nice to hear that things go well for others, right? Some of those who have done really well – at least financially – are listed here in the ranking of the ...

Lykos Therapeutics skär ned på personal efter negativt FDA-besked

Ungefär 75 procent av personalstyrkan får gå hos Lykos Therapeutics. Bolaget utvecklar en MDMA-baserad behandling mot posttraumatiskt stressyndrom som tidigare ...

“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 rol...

Mastering Urine Microscopy: Techniques for Accurate Disease Detection

Live Webinar on September 25, 2024.

Hon är ny vd för CSL Behring

Helena Bragd är sedan början på januari ny Nordic General Manager för biotechbolaget CSL Behring samt vd för CSL Behring AB.

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 ...

Nordic Regulatory experts: Improving biotech chances of Succ

Why is it that so many biotech companies fail? And what are the tools needed to change that fact?

Quality Assurance for the Highest Medical Standards

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Venomaid's rapid test aims to find the right snake bite treatment

Every six seconds, someone on our planet suffers a snake bite, and each time, a race against the clock begins. What kind of snake was it, and which antivenom ca...

Business Sweden: “Companies have a lot to offer in data-driven precision medicine”

Data-driven precision medicine can potentially solve major healthcare problems, states Business Sweden in a new report on the subject.

Elypta awarded one million USD from the Star Trek creator’s foundation

Swedish company Elypta, which develops methods for early cancer detection, has been awarded one million USD from an unexpected source: a foundation set up in me...