Tiden på väg att löpa ut för Pfizer i budstrid

Pfizers misslyckas med att juridiskt försöka stoppa Novo Nordisks uppköp av bioteknikbolaget Metsera. Den amerikanska läkemedelsjätten har nu två dagar på sig a...

Källor: Novo och Lilly nära prisavtal med Vita huset

Amerikanska läkemedelsbolaget Eli Lilly och danska branschkollegan Novo Nordisk förbereder sig för att tillkännage nya prisavtal för läkemedel i en uppgörelse m...

Getinge and Neobiomics received Swecare's export awards

Two companies received awards during Swecare's annual conference.

Allogene discontinues investigational antibody following patient death

U.S. biotechnology company Allogene Therapeutics is fully discontinuing the use of its experimental antibody ALLO-647 following the death of a patient in its pivotal CAR-T trial...

First preterm infants study – a vital step for Neola

After years of developing an advanced lung monitoring system, Neola Medical has received some delightful news: permission to start its first clinical study on p...

FDA approves Gilead’s HIV injection: “Historic day”

Gilead Sciences’ preventive HIV drug, lenacapavir, was approved on Wednesday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), sparking new hope for finally break...

Gene therapy restored hearing in children with congenital deafness

Eleven out of twelve children with congenital deafness showed improvements in a study testing Regeneron’s gene therapy for hereditary hearing loss. The U.S. com...

Tre chefsrockader i CTR-koncernen

Forskningskoncernen Center for Translational Research (CTR) genomför flera skiften på ledande positioner. Flera av bolagen inom gruppen får nu nya chefer.

Tre nya ansikten på KI Innovations

Företagsinkubatorn KI Innovations har anställt tre nya medarbetare med bred erfarenhet från life science-sektorn.

Astra Zeneca’s asthma drug nears approval for sinus inflammation

Astra Zeneca’s drug Tezspire receives positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps.

From pharmacist to life science podcaster – Magnus Lejelöv uses his voice as a tool

Magnus Lejelöv has more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and has conducted nearly two hundred interviews with healthcare professionals...

Bästsäljaren Keytruda blir enklare att ta – godkänns i subkutan form

MSD (känt som Merck i USA och Kanada) har fått klartecken från FDA och CHMP för en ny variant av sitt storsäljande cancerläkemedel Keytruda. Den nya versionen, ...

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Novo Nordisk appoints Mike Doustdar as new CEO

The Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk has appointed Mike Doustdar as its new CEO. At the same time, the company announced it was lowering its forecasts –...

Positive trend for Swedish medtech exports – “We have new markets that are huge”

In 2024, Swedish exports of pharmaceuticals decreased for the first time in several years. However, the trend for medical technology looks brighter. During a se...

The new Swedish life science strategy – “It will consolidate Sweden as a leader”

Clinical trials and precision health are emphasised as key areas in the new national life science strategy.

Vaccine skeptic David Geier to lead study on link to autism

The American government is to launch a study on whether vaccines cause autism – and has appointed a well-known vaccine skeptic to lead the analysis.

The scientist behind Novo Nordisk's obesity success: “I never stopped believing in GLP-1”

It took several years of failures in GLP-1 before Lotte Bjerre Knudsen and her colleagues found the right path – but when they did, it was a true breakthrough. ...

Novo Nordisk cuts ties with Hims & Hers after Wegovy dispute

Novo Nordisk is ending its collaboration with Hims & Hers Health due to concerns about the company’s sales and marketing practices related to the weight-loss drug Wegovy.

Many discontinue obesity medication – new study highlights the reasons

A new study maps out the most common reasons why patients choose to stop taking obesity medication prematurely. “Obesity medication discontinuation reverses hea...

The Future of Swedish & Danish Life Science (2026)

Heart Monitoring in Breast Cancer – Essential or Excessive?

Trastuzumab and related drugs have transformed breast cancer treatment and dramatically improved survival rates. But the close cardiac monitoring required durin...

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The FDA’s new transparency policy (Part 2)

In the second part of our article series on the FDA’s new “radical transparency” initiative, we explore regulatory strategies to navigate the potential impact o...