LINK Medical recruits Swedish CEO

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

Astra Zeneca nådde inte mål i lungcancerstudie

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.

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 resu...

ZEISS continues to drive digital era forward in ophthalmology

2 million digitally planned cataract cases in the U.S. alone.

Astra Zeneca föll efter besvikelser i rapport

Läkemedelsjätten Astra Zeneca föll rejält på börsen på torsdagen efter ett något sämre resultat än väntat det fjärde kvartalet 2023. Samtidigt presenterar bolag...

Astra Zenecas Sverige-vd: ”Vi tror superstarkt på vår portfölj”

Det började med sommarjobb som operatör på Astras kemifabrik i Snäckviken. Över tre decennier och otaliga olika uppdrag senare är Södertäljesonen Per Alfredsson vd för hela Astra...

The new Astra Zeneca CEO: “An incredibly exciting phase”

Almost 27 years have passed since Per Alfredsson from Södertälje stepped into Astra Zeneca as a newly hired engineer. After countless different roles, including...

Joy at Egetis after positive CHMP opinion – ”The single most important milestone”

Stockholm-based Egetis Therapeutics has received a positive CHMP opinion for Emcitate, which could become the first approved treatment for the rare disease MCT8 deficiency."

Standardisation in automation

B. Braun Melsungen had a great idea and implemented it throughout the plant. Production for infusion solutions was to be largely standardised. B. Braun hoped th...

Toppnamn till Smartcellas styrelse

KI-professorn Anna Martling och Regina Fritsche-Danielson, vetenskaplig ledare för Astra Zenecas forskningsanläggning i Göteborg, tar bägge plats i biotech- och...

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...

Lilly recruits top Swedish researcher in Alzheimer´s

One of Sweden's leading Alzheimer's researchers, Oskar Hansson, has been recruited by pharma giant Eli Lilly and will be moving to the USA.

“A major energy boost for the entire cancer vaccine field”

The development of cancer vaccines has accelerated in recent years. Norwegian Ultimovacs is one of the companies attempting to develop a new type of treatment l...

Radioaktivt spårämne ska visa effekt av läkemedel mot tarmsjukdom

En radioaktiv markör som utvecklats av Astra Zeneca och Karolinska institutet kan spela en stor roll för patienter med Crohns sjukdom. Det menar Maria Belvisi, Astra Zeneca.

Skrubben bakom Nobelprisupptäckten

Det hör inte till vanligheterna att upptäckter som leder till Nobelpris görs på små biotechbolag. Ännu mer sällsynt är att arbetet bakom den prisbelönta forskni...

Hello Angelica Loskog!

Life Science Sweden would like to know more about Angelica Loskog and interviews her about her life as a researcher.

Extremely high sample throughput rates

Precision and reliability in automated liquid handling

Lucy Robertshaw: Are we in the perfect storm?

“Is there a perfect storm on the horizon again as elective surgeries were cancelled due to patients being admitted with Covid-19? We now have a long backlog of ...

Founder of Bioarctic, Lars Lannfelt, is honoured: “I want to create something for the future”

It´s like a scientist’s dream: to be the world’s first with a drug that genuinely affects one of our major diseases. Lars Lannfelt and his company Bioarctic hav...

FDA’s Top Vaccine Official resigns – Issues sharp criticism of Kennedy

FDA’s Top Vaccine Official is leaving his post while simultaneously criticizing the country’s health secretary for allowing “misinformation and lies” to influen...

Thomas Eldered: ”Innovation is the key”

Thomas Eldered speaks in a web clip about the challenges facing the life science sector in the future and what he, as an investor, finds most interesting in new companies.

Rickard Sandberg on this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine: ”A key discovery”

The discovery that paved the way for the development of todays mRNA vaccines is the basis for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Astra Zeneca förvärvar kinesiskt CAR-T-bolag

Astra Zeneca förvärvar kinesiska Gracell, som utvecklar en CAR-T-terapi mot blodcancer och autoimmuna sjukdomar.