Pharma Outsourcing – Find the Right Partner (2026)

Pfizer’s Paxlovid is being tested against post-COVID in a major Swedish study

In a new study conducted at the Karolinska University Hospital, Pfizer’s COVID drug, Paxlovid, is now being tested in patients with post-COVID. The study is one...

Veteranen inom läkemedelsformulering: Mycket aktivitet i fältet

Korbinian Löbmann har flera gånger tidigare modererat New Updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability. Nu tar han åter sig an det vetenskapliga mötet.

FDA approves first non-opioid pain reliever in over 20 years

For the first time in decades, a new type of acute pain medication that is not an opioid has been approved in the USA.

Editorial: ”AI that both impresses and frightens”

”In the past, I've rarely been particularly impressed by something that was produced by AI. But this is something completely different”, Samuel Lagercrantz writ...

Björn Arvidsson will lead research and innovation in Region Uppsala

The Swedish life science profile Björn Arvidsson has been appointed Director of Research and Innovation for Region Uppsala.

The Swedish Academy of Sciences: “We have too many researchers”

Sweden does not need more researchers, but it does need better ones. According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, funding should be distributed to favour excellence.

Conference on Alzheimer’s reveals several advances in the field

In Gothenburg, Sweden, researchers and pharmaceutical companies from all over the world gathered to discuss one specific issue – neurological diseases. Life Sci...

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Klartecken i EU för ny behandling av blodcancer

EU-kommissionen har godkänt GSK:s läkemedel Blenrep för behandling av vuxna med återkommande eller behandlingsresistenta former av multipelt myelom.

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...

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...

Tungt namn föreslås ta över klubban i Sobi

Valberedningen i särläkemedelsbolaget Sobi föreslår att David Meek utses till ny styrelseordförande vid en extra bolagsstämma i december.

Novo Nordisk establishes new factory in Denmark

Novo Nordisk establishes a new production facility in Odense, Denmark, an investment of 8.5 billion Danish kroner.

Kennedy: FDA är en ”marionett” åt läkemedelsindustrin

USA:s nya hälsominister Robert F. Kennedy Jr höll i fredags tal inför läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA:s medarbetare – och tog tillfället i akt att kalla dem för mario...

Obesity-drug pioneers win Lasker Award

This year’s Lasker Prize in Clinical Research has been awarded to three researchers for their discoveries in GLP-1-based drugs that, according to the jury, “hav...

MSD discontinues development of cancer drugs after trial failures

MSD suspends Phase 3 trials for two drug programs for different forms of cancer after trial failures.

Elevating 3D characterization with enhanced performance and efficiencies

Introducing the ZEISS VersaXRM 730 3D X-ray microscope.

GSK pays 2.2 billion dollars to settle Zantac lawsuits

British drugmaker Glaxo Smith Kline, GSK, has struck a 2.2 billion dollar settlement, thereby resolving a vast majority of the liability cases pending against t...

Anna Törner: Vem betalar för Rebecca Doe – och alla oss andra?

Det lätt att vänja sig vid tanken att vård och läkemedel är gratis, när det egentligen handlar om hur och vem som betalar. Det skriver Anna Törner i en krönika.

GSK acquires oncology research company

GSK acquires the American biotechnology company Idrx for up to 1.15 billion dollars.

Italian pharmaceutical company buys rights to immunotherapy from Sanofi

Italy's Recordati buys the rights to a treatment for the rare autoimmune disease cold agglutinin disease (CAD).

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Here are the pharmaceutical companies best prepared for AI

How well prepared are pharmaceutical companies in the field of artificial intelligence? That is what a new analysis has tried to evaluate.