Noteringsaktuella Alvotech: “Vill bli marknadsledande globalt inom biosimilarer”

Det isländska bioteknikbolaget Alvotech parallellnoteras på Nasdaq Stockholm den 19 maj. Bolaget är redan listat på Nasdaq i New York och i Reykjavik, där det ä...

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...

Webinar: Automate your processes

Free ZEISS webinar on January 30th, 2025.

Venom from the deathstalker carries radiopharmaceuticals to the brain

In order to target cancerous brain tumours with radionuclides, the problematic blood-brain barrier must first be crossed. Life Science Sweden has visited a KI r...

LINK Medical recruits Swedish CEO

The Norwegian Contract Research Organization LINK Medical has recruited Anders Göransson as the new CEO.

HAB Nicolai Johannsen

Life science trends 2025 – Part 1 obesity drugs

More obesity drugs are being launched this year following Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly's previous successes with GLP-1 drugs. But the next big breakthrough in obe...

Astra Zeneca’s Sweden CEO: “We have great faith in our portfolio”

It all started with a summer job as an operator at Astra’s chemical factory in Snäckviken, just outside Södertälje. More than three decades and countless differ...

Medical device quality assurance

Recordings from ZEISS Quality Innovation Days.

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 ...

Jazz anklagas för falskspel – går med på förlikning

Irländska Jazz Pharmaceuticals har gått med på att betala 145 miljoner dollar i förlikning efter anklagelser om brott mot amerikanska konkurrenslagar.

Vinnova is going to establish a new innovation cluster

Vinnova, the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems, has been commissioned by the government to establish a national innovation cluster for advanced medicines.

“Life science is important on a personal level”

From the High Coast to the Government Offices. Jeanette Edblad is a native of Ångermanland, and since September last year, she has been Head and Coordinator of ...

Uppsala-based company wins important patent dispute – but the decision is subject to appeal

A US district court has ruled in favour of Orexo in a dispute over the patent protecting the Swedish company’s drug Zubsolv, developed for treating patients wit...

Saving lives worldwide with low-cost molecular diagnostics

High throughput testing for many upper respiratory tract pathogens thanks to automation technology

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...

"Unclear proposal from the EU Commission on how to solve the MDR challenges"

Even before the EU regulation on medical devices (MDR) came into force, medical technology companies and doctors were concerned that it would endanger the avail...

Rise and Scantox cease conducting animal testing in Stockholm

Access to in vivo toxicology services is significantly decreasing in the Stockholm area as Rise shuts down animal testing and Scantox reorganizes. ”The costs ar...

23andme köps upp – Regeneron tar över miljontals DNA-prover

Läkemedelsutvecklaren Regeneron bjöd högst och ser ut att ta över konkursade DNA-testbolaget 23andme och dess biobank med genetisk information om miljontals kunder.

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...

Double up for Korbinian Löbmann

This year, Korbinian Löbmann will moderate the New Updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability meeting in Copenhagen for the fifth time. Furthermore, he will ...

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 result, customers in the seed industry can collect DNA ...

Study: Vaccination linked to lower risk of post-COVID

The risk of developing post-COVID after a COVID infection was reduced in vaccinated people, according to a new study from the University of Gothenburg.

Vaccinet har räddat 94 miljoner liv – men nu sprids mässlingen igen

En sjukdom som vi trodde hörde till det förgångna ökar nu åter i både Europa och USA. I skuggan av ökad skepsis och minskad vaccintäckning gör mässlingen – som ...