Her company is developing a new tablet form obesity drug

Obesity and diabetes are the primary targets of a new tablet treatment under development by Malmö-based Pila Pharma. The company’s ambition is to take on the bi...

Hon blir ny medicinsk chef på Synact Pharma

Synact Pharma, som bland annat utvecklar behandlingar för reumatiska sjukdomar, har utsett Kirsten Harting till ny Chief Medical Officer.

Han är ny på Capitainer

Solnaföretaget Capitainer har anställt Johan Olausson som applikationsspecialist.

"Are we doing business the wrong way around in the Life Science Sector?"

For the past 50 years we have created solutions for problems that we thought would solve the problems. Pharmaceuticals have created big block buster drugs which...

Mikael Kubista lämnar Tataa: "Världen förändras"

Tataa Biocenter byter ut delar av ledningen, inklusive vd:n och medgrundaren Mikael Kubista. Förändringen sker, enligt ett pressmeddelande, för att ”stödja före...

Brexit creeping closer – or?

In this column, lawyer Pernilla Norman, tries to sort out the different Brexit options.

Study names with an attitude – more important than you might think

Ironman, T-rex, Star-Trek. Popcorn, Proper, Scout. Nope, these are neither fantasy films nor dog names. They’re the names of ongoing cancer studies in Sweden.

Pia Steensland går till Pfizer

Den tidigare riksdagsledamoten Pia Steensland börjar på Pfizer som Director, Policy & Public Affairs.

Sustainability at Festo

On the Way to the Net Zero Era - New Sustainability Report published

Mizarra Business Management

Webinar: Medtech quality and regulatory compliance

This webinar is for you who are developing or planning to develop a medical device, combination, or borderline product. In one hour, we will discuss what you ne...

KI’s freezer fiasco investigated: A chain of failures

A chain of combined technical and organisational shortcomings caused the freezer breakdown at the Karolinska Institute during the Christmas holidays, destroying...

Quiet, fast, inexpensive: mass flow controller for life sciences

Whether in portable oxygen system devices or in bioreactors, the new proportional flow control valve VEMD from Festo provides extremely high control dynamics an...

SDS Life Science rekryterar erfaren IT-manager

Med sin expertis och erfarenhet som IT- arkitekt blir Jan Broman SDS-gruppens senaste tillskott i rollen som IT-manager.

Erik Gatenholm slutar som vd – här är hans efterträdare på Bico

Erik Gatenholm lämnar rollen som vd och koncernchef för biokonvergensbolaget Bico, som han var med och grundade. Han efterträds av Maria Forss, som närmast komm...

Bioarctic granted Japanese patent for Parkinson’s disease candidate

Bioarctic has been granted a Japanese patent for its antibodies targeting Parkinson’s disease.

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 advanc...

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...

Suing the company – for NOT developing a new HIV drug

Was Gilead putting a steady flow of profits from its cash cow ahead of developing a new and safer drug? According to a large number of US HIV patients in a lega...

Dylan Ceynowa är ny medicinsk chef på Novocure

Cancerterapibolaget Novocure har rekryterat Dylan Ceynowa till tjänsten som Senior Medical Manager.

Study: Cancer vaccine prolongs survival in difficult-to-treat tumour disease

According to a new study, a combination of a cancer vaccine from Norwegian company Ultimovacs and two immunotherapies significantly prolonged survival in cases ...

Column: ”Life as a F1 race”

"The F1 car makes several pit stops during a race and during a lifetime the human being may also have to come in several times for maintenance", Björn Ursing wr...

The impact of the recession on the Swedish medtech sector

We need health care regardless of whether the economy is good or bad, but the current recession also affects the Medtech sector.

Bio Europe to Stockholm – ”The Swedish ecosystem is now taking the opportunity”

The international life science conference Bio Europe is coming to Sweden for the first time in November. The conference, whose program takes inspiration from AB...