List: The coolest names in biotech

Hairy beasts, volcanic material and space strolling stand out on a US list of the best biotech company names, and on a list of the coolest names for pharmaceuti...

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...

Emerson

Medicon Village Science Park

HAB Nicolai Johannsen

Setback for Moderna in patent dispute with mRNA competitors

Moderna has suffered a setback in a patent battle against their worst competitors in covid vaccines, Biontech and its partner Pfizer.

Samuel Lagercrantz: “Companies that do this successfully will take the lead”

The development of new medicines and medical technologies should not focus too narrowly on prolonging life. It is equally important to develop treatments that r...

Extremely high sample throughput rates

Precision and reliability in automated liquid handling

CTR förvärvar Lundabolag inom topikala läkemedel

Bolagsgruppen Center for Translational Research, CTR, utökar sin portfölj genom förvärv av kontraktsforskningsbolaget Zelmic.

”We need compatibility“

Penilla Gunther, founder of Fokus Patient and chair of the European Patient Safety Foundation, hopes that the forthcoming life science strategy will focus on ef...

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...

Specific proposals and targets top the universities’ desired priorities

What are the universities’ expectations for the update of the national life science strategy? Life Science Sweden posed the question to representatives from Kar...

Danish obesity success causes recruitment problems in southern Sweden

The substantial expansion of Danish Novo Nordisk is affecting companies in southern Sweden, which are finding it increasingly difficult to compete for attractive staff.

It couldn’t be simpler

AI-assisted ZEISS Solution inspects implant coatings automatically.

The Swedish Research Council gets go-ahead for more long-term funding

Following a government decision, the Swedish Research Council will soon be able to approve ten-year grant periods for funding research infrastructure, which may...

NorthX Biologics Matfors AB

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 ...

The Covid pandemic accelerated the development of cancer vaccine

The Covid pandemic gave a major boost to the vaccine field. The Danish biotech company Expres2ion Biotechnologies, which is developing a vaccine against breast ...

RegFile AB

SMC Corporation Appoints Bianca Brunell as New General Manager for the Nordic and Baltic Countries

SMC Corporation is pleased to announce the appointment of Bianca Brunell as the new General Manager for SMC’s Nordic and Baltic countries, effective June 1, 2024.

Assignment: Facilitate the retention of foreign researchers

A newly appointed public inquiry is to develop measures to make attracting and retaining foreign doctoral students and researchers in Sweden easier.

Lonza

From Valneva to the CEO position at NorthX – “I saw it as a great opportunity”

A new cell therapy for leukaemia, a vaccine in tablet form against cholera, and a proprietary mRNA line with the potential capacity to supply the entire Nordic ...

New large lab building in Lund inaugurated – here are the companies moving in

Medicon Village has received a new laboratory building. On Friday last week the building was inaugurated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony by Minister for Employme...