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Now it’s settled: The International Vaccine Institute will be located in Stockholm
The International Vaccine Institute, IVI, is establishing itself outside South Korea for the first time. Last week, the Swedish Parliament ratified the agreemen...
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Norwegian company wins bidding battle for Sensidose
The lengthy battle to acquire medical device company Sensidose is apparently over. Generic medicines company EQL Pharma is pulling out, selling its shares and l...
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Swedish and Ukrainian Medical Product Agencies sign an agreement
The Directors-General of the Swedish and Ukrainian Medical Products Agencies have signed a cooperation agreement.
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"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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The first Lyme disease vaccine faces a delay
Pfizer and Valneva’s Lyme disease vaccine, which could be the first of its kind, is facing delays of about a year. The reason is problems at trial sites in the ...
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Life Science Sweden´s international issue is on its way
A new issue of Life Science Sweden is on its way to print, packed with news, interviews and reports.
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New drug alert in the US: Rise in overdoses linked to the use of drugs for animals
A combination of the synthetic drugs fentanyl and xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, has been labelled a “growing threat” by the White House due to its role in t...
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Decades of research destroyed at KI – a hacker attack cannot be ruled out!
Years of research, together with half a billion Swedish krona, went up in smoke when the freezers at Karolinska Institutet overheated. The breakdown has now bee...
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A mass flow controller that is silent, fast and cost-effective
Portable ventilator breathing devices, bioreactors or the dosing of inert gases all rely on the highest control dynamics. That is exactly what the proportional ...
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Nocebo – den onda tvillingen som får dig att må sämre
Placeboeffekten är väl känd inom vården – men det gäller inte dess motsats: nocebo. "Det är en liten effekt, men den kan få stora återverkningar", säger Uppsala...
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The first pharmaceutical for eosinophilic esophagitis approved in the U.S.
The U.S. Drug Administration has approved the drug Dupixent (dupilumab) to treat inflammation of the oesophagus of the type eosinophil esophagitis.
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Swedish breakthrough in Alzheimer’s: “We can finally present great data”
Treatments for Alzheimer’s disease are currently among the hottest topics in drug development. Two Swedish research companies with high ambitions and successes ...
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Pfizer’s record year – topped the $100 billion mark
In 2022 Pfizer, as the first pharmaceutical company in history, reached an annual revenue of more than 100 billion dollars, thereby surpassing Johnson & Johnson...
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EMA review confirms a risk of new cancer after CAR-T
CAR-T cancer therapies can, in rare cases, induce secondary cancers. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) now recognises this and requires a warning label to be ...
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He will be the new chair of Medicon Valley Alliance
Niels Abel Bonde is the nomination committee’s proposal and the most likely person to take over as the new chairman of the Swedish-Danish life science cluster o...
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Paolo Macchiarini in court – “The sole intent was to cure”
Paolo Macchiarini’s surgical procedure was illegal, life-threatening and caused severe and prolonged suffering to patients the prosecution claimed when the tria...
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Unexpected study results on testosterone – no reduction in fracture risk
Testosterone treatment is known to increase bone density and bone quality. However, a study now suggests that supplementation with the male sex hormone does not...
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Tirzepatide approved for obesity by the FDA – to be branded as Zepbound
Diabetes drug tirzepatide has now also been approved in the US for treating obesity.
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Elypta awarded one million USD from the Star Trek creator’s foundation
Swedish company Elypta, which develops methods for early cancer detection, has been awarded one million USD from an unexpected source: a foundation set up in me...
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Marie Gårdmark: Finally, it’s time for a revision of the EU pharma legislation
A challenge for the EU Commission is to deliver a new framework that will also take care of another “pillar” of the pharmaceutical strategy, namely, to ensure t...
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The Swedish government is to increase its investment in cancer care
The Swedish government wants to invest more in cancer and paediatric cancer care and proposes to allocate SEK 500 million per year for this purpose in the coming years.
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Kriget i Ukraina ger bränsle åt totalt resistenta bakterier
Krigshärjade Ukraina lider inte bara av fientliga attacker från en utländsk angripare, utan också från hotet från en totalt resistent och smittsam bakterie.
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Svensk obesitaskandidat visade lovande resultat – ”Kan få stor betydelse”
Tabletten ska främja viktminskning utan att påverka aptit eller muskelmassa. Resultaten är lovande, enligt en klinisk fas I-studie från Karolinska institutet oc...
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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.