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...

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 ...

Abigo nyanställer

Life science-företaget Abigo har anställt en ny kommunikationschef och en ny risk and quality specialist.

Column: Repurposing as a golden ticket to approval

"Hopefully, in the end, patients will be winners by receiving on-label treatments for which benefit-risk has been properly assessed." In a column Marie Gårdmark...

Just four weeks to a concept for an emergency ventilator

The lockdown in spring 2020 meant that the majority of Festo employees had to join the ranks of those working from home. Yet within the space of just four weeks...

Krönika: Can regulators keep up with innovation?

New technology has increased the understanding of disease mechanisms and enabled approval of products targeting small but specific patient populations; sometime...

40,000 DNA extractions daily

It's great when things run quickly: 20 minutes per extraction process and a new plate every 2.5 minutes – the Dutch company Synchron Lab Automation, in cooperat...

Product Specialist at Gradientech AB, Uppsala

Drug development creates new challenges for regulators

Storbritannien godkänner Pfizers covid-19 vaccin

Vaccinet kommer att finnas tillgängligt på brittiska sjukhus från och med början på nästa vecka.

Här är vaccinkandidaterna mot coronaviruset

Totalt finns det idag tio pågående kliniska studier om vaccinkandidater mot det nya coronaviruset.

Anders Blanck about his 17 years at Lif: “The industry is enjoying greater public trust now"

The announcement came as a surprise to those around him, but according to the protagonist himself, the timing was excellent. Anders Blanck is now leaving Lif – ...

Miljardinvesteringar och plantskola för 1000 bolag

UIC, Uppsala Innovation Centre, firar 20 år i år. Totalt har 1 011 startups och tillväxtföretag har fått stöd och de sammanlagda finansieringarna ligger på över...

Engage with your CMO early

Gordon Hutton is Materials Science Lead at Thermo Fisher Scientific’s, formerly GSK, small molecule API site in Cork, Ireland.

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.

ATMP-expert till Eliceras styrelse

Karin Hoogendoorn har valts in i styrelsen för Elicera Therapeutics.

SDS Life Science satsar på regulatorisk spetskompetens

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 ph...

Lucy Robertshaw: Are we in the perfect storm?

“Is there a perfect storm on the horizon again as elective surgeries were cancelled due to patients being admitted with Covid-19? We now have a long backlog of ...

”Jag drivs av att ta fram en produkt som kan säljas i hela världen”

Rankade som nummer ett i världen av WHO inom diarréforskning och snart i fas III-studier för sin vaccinkandidat – Scandinavian Biopharma rusar fram i jakten på ...

Automated opening and closing of sample vials

From technical requirements to a suitable solution

ALS – When the body has given up, but the brain persists

The nerve disease ALS gradually deprives the patient of control over the muscles and, eventually, also of speech. The eyes continue to function, though, and wit...

Collaboration in laboratory automation

The Dutch company Synchron Lab Automation developed an automated DNA extraction system with high throughput, working very closely together with Festo. As a resu...

Nya chefer på Xvivo

Anne-Li Sigvardsson och Andreas Wallinder rekryteras inifrån bolaget.