When carelessness, forgetfulness and coincidence become the researcher’s best friend

Forgetfulness, coincidence and a stroke of luck hardly make up a fruitful method of serious research. Or do they? Actually, a number of important medical advanc...

New diagnostic test soon ready for the market

Column: Repurposing as a golden ticket to approval

"Hopefully, in the end, patients will be winners by receiving on-label treatments for which benefit-risk has been properly assessed." In a column Marie Gårdmark...

Anna Törner: ”Jobbar på att ta över världen!”

Det är mer framgångsrikt att våga mycket, än att redan från början döma ut sig själv som otillräcklig, skriver Anna Törner i en krönika.

Column: ”We need to exploit the benefits of the regulations“

You don’t need to search long on the Internet to find lists of the most innovative countries with Sweden ranking at the top. Sweden generally offers good condit...

Heidi Stensmyren is eager for new challenges in the biotech industry

Heidi Stensmyren has served as President of the Swedish Medical Association, held a managerial position at Karolinska University Hospital and is now Medical Dir...

Renrumsprofessorn: Avancerad teknik ingen garanti för god hygien i operationssalen

Robotar och ny teknik må underlätta kirurgens arbete – men gör det inte lättare att hålla operationssalen ren och hygienisk. Det menar Matts Ramstorp, Sveriges ...

“I am driven by the desire to develop a product that can be sold worldwide”

Ranked number one in the world by the WHO in diarrhoea research and soon in phase III studies for its vaccine candidate – Scandinavian Biopharma is rushing forw...

ALS – When the body has given up, but the brain persists

The nerve disease ALS gradually deprives the patient of control over the muscles and, eventually, also of speech. The eyes continue to function, though, and wit...

Grönare leveranser med Bring

Människor beställer mer ting online än någonsin förr. Konsumtionen ökar, både för gott och ont.

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...

He is heading a new company for the development of Coegin’s cancer drug

The biotechnology company Coegin Pharma places the development of its drug candidate AVX420 in a newly formed company, Avexxin Oncology, based in Norway, and Jo...

Investments worth 40 billion in the Öresund region – “A huge investment wave”

A new report reveals that medical companies in the Oresund region are investing like never before.

We will now publish more news in English – and offer yet another newsletter

Starting next week, Life Science Sweden will begin offering a newsletter entirely in English.

Marie Gårdmark: New incentives for orphan products on its way

"Let’s hope that the learnings from development of new therapies for rare diseases will spill over to more common conditions, orphan products paving the wave fo...

Birgitta Henriques Normark ny ordförande för Vetenskapsakademien

Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien får ny ordförande den 1 juli. Birgitta Henriques Normark, som har varit ledamot sedan 2018, valdes på akademiens allmänna sammankomst den 6 april.

Anna Törner: To kill your darlings

Hopes were high when Anna Törner and her colleague started a study on a dietary supplement that seemed unbelievably good. “Enthusiastically, we dreamed of excit...

The stomach medication that became the biggest blockbuster of the 1990s

The omeprazole molecule was synthesised as early as 1979, but it took many years before the then Astra had an approved pharmaceutical. Once this happened, a tab...

Klart med namn för apoteksjätten

Den nya sammanslagna apoteksjätten ska heta Kronans Apotek. Därmed försvinner varumärket Apoteksgruppen.

She creates pharmaceuticals on a 3D printer

The correct dosage for each individual, regardless of whether the pharmaceutical is for a seriously ill child or a frail elderly person, is the mission of a wel...

Product Specialist at Gradientech AB, Uppsala

Topplista innovationer: Så gjorde vi

Det är en grannlaga uppgift att ranka svenska innovationer då det finns många aspekter att ta hänsyn till. Kan man ens jämföra ett läkemedel med en medicinteknisk produkt?

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...

Tablet treatment for hair loss approved in the USA

The US Drug Administration has given a thumbs up for the first tablet treatment for spotty hair loss.