Event: Drug Development – Serendipity or Science

Drug development is a challenging journey, we will discuss questions you may not even consider asking. SDS and Medicon Village welcome you to an engaging afternoon.

Medicheck anställer ny Sverigechef

Emilie Erhardt Winiarski blir Sverigechef för vårdbolaget Medicheck.

Behandling som skjuter upp diabetes typ 1 godkänd i USA – "Historiskt ögonblick"

Den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA har godkänt en behandling som fördröjer utbrottet av typ 1-diabetes, och därmed kan bespara patienter åratal av insuli...

Swedish Healthtech Company 1928 Pushing Forward

The full service analytics platform is expanding the business.

New diagnostic rules raise concerns

In a panel discussion, several voices from academia and the industry expressed concerns about the transition to the new regulatory framework for in-vitro diagno...

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.

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.

Patient fick nytt öra – 3d-printat från sina egna celler

Ett kirurgteam i Texas har lyckats med att förse en patient med vad de uppger är det första 3D-printade ytterörat som bygger på patientens egna celler.

Nobelpristagaren Torsten Wiesel fyller 100: ”Gamla gubbar som jag ska använda erfarenheten till att hjälpa de unga”

Året var 1955 när en ung Torsten Wiesel hoppade på båten till USA och inledde en sagolik karriär som hjärnforskare med ett Nobelpris som kronan på verket. Nu fy...

Samuel Lagercrantz: A special kind of hellishness afflicts post-COVID patients

In addition to the disease itself those suffering from post-COVID have to deal with people who try to label them as hypochondriacs, writes Samuel Lagercrantz in an editorial.

Biosimilars bring price pressure, but are they sufficiently used?

When biosimilars were introduced just over 16 years ago, hopes were raised that they would give many more patients access to effective but otherwise extremely e...

Anna Törner: The clinical trial – Periscope to reality

What happens to the patients in the clinical trial is not very interesting, writes Anna Törner in a column.

Björn Arvidsson: ”We need to change perspective”

If you say “life science” to a person on the street and ask them to explain what it is, you will probably get no good answer. The same question to your network ...

Bicos vd i blåsväder – uppgav fel utbildning

Det blåser kring medtechbolaget Bico. Förra veckan meddelade finanschefen Gusten Danielsson att han avgår med omedelbar verkan och på stämman röstade han mot at...

Storsatsning i Uppsala – life science-område ska växa kraftigt

Uppsalas största life science-kluster ska bli större – mycket större. Området i Fyrislund ska tredubblas till ytan och ge plats för ytterligare 12 000 arbetspla...

The route to vaccines for everyone: “We did not just sit around and wait”

The pandemic was in full swing, and no one knew when or even if a vaccine would come. At that point, the Swedish Minister of Social Affairs called with a propos...

Column: "Are we already living in the new normal?"

2020 felt like the year that we were building the house around us whilst moving into it at the same time.

Man som fick grishjärta transplanterat har avlidit

Mannen som blev först i världen med att få ett grishjärta transplanterat har avlidit, två månader efter operationen.

EU:s inköp av covidvaccin utreds av åklagare

Europeiska åklagarmyndigheten, Eppo, har inlett en utredning om misstänkta oegentligheter i samband med affärer med covid-19-vaccin inom EU. Flera internationel...

Meet the governmental life science office

More clinical trials, promotion for digitisation and interoperability together with increased use of data generated by both healthcare and individuals. The duti...

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...

A new malaria vaccine offers hope but much more research is still needed

There has long been no vaccine against malaria, but there have been breakthroughs in recent years. However, it is still unclear how we become immune to the mala...

IRW Consulting is seeking Clinical Research Associates (CRAs) on positions located in Stockholm

A surprising discovery about the immune system in cases of cancer

Professor Göran Jönsson is trying to understand why some patients benefit from immunotherapies while others don’t. A couple of years ago, he made a surprising d...