Jätteanslag till medicinsk grundforskning – åtta projekt delar på 227 miljoner

Mekanismerna bakom kronisk smärta, en atlas över tarmbarriären och B-cellsminnets outforskade dimensioner är några av de åtta grundforskningsprojekt inom medici...

“We need to keep investing in research and innovation”

Jenni Nordborg has worked for just over four years to highlight life science in Sweden. Her mandate as national coordinator ends in December 2022. ““Life scienc...

Astra Zeneca's Covid-19 vaccine Vaxzevria is being withdrawn worldwide

AstraZeneca initiates a worldwide withdrawal of its Covid vaccine Vaxzevria. The measure is taken just months after the company admitted the vaccine can cause a...

CROs in drug development: "We use our expertise to speed up the process

Consultancy firms have become an increasingly important part of drug development. “It’s a trend and a business model that works, and we see no indication that i...

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 ...

Uncertainty about the government’s life science work

The government’s national coordinator for life science, Jenni Nordborg, left her position almost four months ago. No one has yet succeeded her, and now question...

Medeon AB

Lucy Robertshaw: Artificial intelligence – is this really going to transform a patient’s life?

In a column Lucy Robertshaw reflects on how AI and new regulations will affect healthcare, innovation and the lives of future patients.

Raised millions to develop a treatment for ´butterfly children´

Fragile as a butterfly’s wing – that’s how people living with Epidermolysis Bullosa are usually described. The Lund-based company Xinnate recently raised SEK 10...

Eternal Rye – Improving Plant Breeding Methods

User story from Martin Luther University Halle.

Cytel Sweden

A new malaria vaccine offers hope but much more research is still needed

There has long been no vaccine against malaria, but there have been breakthroughs in recent years. However, it is still unclear how we become immune to the mala...

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 ...

Settlement of cancer allegations against blockbuster drug

French pharmaceutical company Sanofi has reached a principal agreement in the US on around 4,000 of the cases in which its now withdrawn blockbuster heartburn d...

ProPharma

Medicon Valley Alliance

"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...

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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.

KI’s new President: “We need to work closer together”

A closer link between research and education and a stronger “we-feeling” are aims that Annika Östman Wernerson sets out to achieve as the new President of Karol...

The Crucial Role of Core Imaging Facility Managers

User story from ZEISS and the University of York.

Jan Holmgren to receive award for the development of cholera vaccine

Researcher Jan Holmgren is being awarded for the development of the first effective drinkable cholera vaccine. The award is given by the International Vaccine I...

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...

”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...