Carl Zeiss Meditec achieves revenue growth and stable operating profit

Further recovery in order entry compared to prior year.

Takeover bid is being completed – Japanese company acquires Calliditas

Japanese company Asahi Kasei completes the bid for Calliditas Therapeutics after reaching over 90 percent of the shareholding. Callidita's board has now decided...

Ny chefredaktör på Läkartidningen

Åsa Uhlin har utsetts till ny chefredaktör på Läkartidningen efter avgående Pär Sandell.

Anders Blanck about his 17 years at Lif: “The industry is enjoying greater public trust now"

The announcement came as a surprise to those around him, but according to the protagonist himself, the timing was excellent. Anders Blanck is now leaving Lif – ...

From Valneva to the CEO position at NorthX – “I saw it as a great opportunity”

A new cell therapy for leukaemia, a vaccine in tablet form against cholera, and a proprietary mRNA line with the potential capacity to supply the entire Nordic ...

A green nursery for biotech rooted in the Scanian soil

Red Glead has established itself as one of Lund’s largest companies in pharmaceutical development. Life Science Sweden went to Skåne and met two of the founders...

Business Sweden: “Companies have a lot to offer in data-driven precision medicine”

Data-driven precision medicine can potentially solve major healthcare problems, states Business Sweden in a new report on the subject.

No demand for new Covid vaccine – “It will probably be discarded”

So far, just under 6 000 doses of the Covid vaccine from Novavax have been used in Sweden, leaving over 1.4 million doses in stock. “They will probably be disca...

Nytt läkemedel mot fibromyalgi godkänt – första på 16 år

Amerikanska Tonix Pharma har fått FDA-godkännande för sitt läkemedel Tonmya för behandling av smärta relaterat till det kroniska tillståndet fibromyalgi. Läkeme...

Novavax is developing a vaccine candidate against Covid-19 and seasonal flu

A combined vaccine against both Covid-19 and seasonal flu is showing promising results in studies, according to the American drug developer Novavax. The adjuvan...

Sepsisbolag tar in kapital

Bioteknikbolaget Aptahem, som utvecklar en behandling mot sepsis, har beslutat om en företrädesemission som kan ge bolaget upp till 34,6 miljoner kronor.

New Horizons in Biologics & Bioprocessing incl. Advanced Therapies: Stockholm (2026)

Alzinova tar steg mot fas II-studie i USA

Biofarmabolaget Alzinova hoppas kunna inleda en fas II-studie med sin vaccinkandidat mot Alzheimers under andra halvåret 2025.

Nytt blodprov för Alzheimers ska användas i primärvården

Den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA har godkänt Roches blodtest Elecsys för bedömning av tidig Alzheimers sjukdom. Testet är godkänt i EU sedan i juli.

Artificial intelligence in radiology – “Risk prediction is very exciting”

A growing number of solutions based on artificial intelligence are being developed and used in healthcare. According to Sophia Zackrisson, Professor of Radiolog...

Gothenburg, the city of life science – We are ‘Little Boston’

Western Sweden is investing in life science within everything from advanced therapeutic drugs to femtech. At the same time, stakeholders are looking to other in...

Hello Angelica Loskog!

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

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 100 million in a new...

Biologiska läkemedel och ATMP på agendan när forskare samlades i Köpenhamn

Under onsdagen arrangerades New Horizons in Biologics & Bioprocessing. Här ser du bilder från eventet.

The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare rejects prioritising andrology as a speciality

Male infertility can be linked to a shorter lifespan and several severe diseases, but when couples who want children are examined, the focus is on the woman. Ex...

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...

Anna Törner: The minute between life and death

“I have never told anyone about this day that happened more than 20 years ago. But I sometimes reflect on what happened, on what might have happened. When I try...

PharmaSurgics in Sweden AB

How to optimise your liquid handling results

In dispensing or pipetting applications in laboratory automation, it is important to obtain reliable results, which are analysed by calculating the accuracy and...