He got inside the head of Sweden’s vaccine hunter

The hunt for the COVID-19 vaccine is the theme of the new book Vaccinjägaren (The Vaccine Hunter). It tells the story of Richard Bergström’s mission as Sweden’s...

Sweden is heavily criticised for not ordering Covid vaccine

Valneva and the EU Commission have entered into an agreement for 1.25 million doses of the company’s Covid vaccine, but Sweden has not placed an order.

Ny studie: Ingen effekt av ivermektin mot covid-19

Det omdiskuterade antiparasitläkemedlet ivermektin har förts fram som en alternativ behandling mot covid-19. Men enligt en ny studie har behandlingen ingen effe...

Elekta lanserar ny gamma knife

Elekta firar 50 år i år och lanserar det nya systemet Elekta Esprit, som ska ge snabbare behandlingstid och bli mer patientvänlig.

Start-up som utvecklar digital tvilling prisades under EIT Health Summit

Ett biotech-företag, ett medtech-företag och ett företag inom digital hälsa stod på prispallen när EIT Health Catapult avgjordes.

Uncertainty about the government’s life science work

The government’s national coordinator for life science, Jenni Nordborg, left her position almost four months ago. No one has yet succeeded her, and now question...

Oncopeptides har ansökt om tillstånd för kliniska studier i USA

Oncopeptides planerar att påbörja kliniska studier i USA med deras andra läkemedelskandidat för patienter med multipelt myelom.

Column: ”Cheating with pea flowers and does it matter whether you are right?”

Is it possible to forgive shortcuts or outright cheating in science - if it turns out that the researcher was ultimately right? Anna Törner discuss this topic in a column.

IRW Consulting is seeking Clinical Research Managers

Anställer affärsutvecklare

Bioteknikbolaget Acousort har anställt Kristian Enqvist som affärsutvecklingschef på konsultbasis.

Editorial: ”AI that both impresses and frightens”

”In the past, I've rarely been particularly impressed by something that was produced by AI. But this is something completely different”, Samuel Lagercrantz writ...

Ökad smittspridning i Storbritannien – oro för "delta plus"

En ny och möjligen mer smittsam mutation av deltavarianten av sars-cov-2-viruset väcker oro, inte minst i Storbritannien där smittspridningen nu ökar.

Anställer affärsutvecklare

Bioteknikbolaget Acousort har anställt Kristian Enqvist som affärsutvecklingschef på konsultbasis.

New automated solution for flexible molecular assays

The fully integrated Qiasymphony is a new automated platform for flexible molecular testing.

Han tar plats på Devyser

Fredrik Alpsten kommer närmast från norska Algipharma.

Pharma Outsourcing igång på Stockholm Waterfront

“We need to build flexible operating theatres”

Flexible operating theatres, micro-sensors on surgeons to monitor their well-being and 3D images projected onto organs to be operated on. These are a few ideas ...

BioVentureHub CEO: “Companies with a high degree of interaction achieve greater success”

For the first time since its inception, AstraZeneca’s BioVentureHub can now recruit new companies, as some of its tenants have grown significantly and are leavi...

Anna Törner: You won’t find this many Concorde projects anywhere else

"Suddenly Concorde projects seem reasonable in life science because it´s about life and death", writes Anna Törner in a column.

CAR-T therapies give continued hope: “Almost half of the patients have become disease-free”

When the first CAR-T therapies appeared, hopes were raised for the effective treatment for critically ill cancer patients. After a somewhat sluggish start, abou...

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...

Clinical trials in large scale to Stockholm

Karolinska Trial Alliance, KTA, will open a medical clinical for clinical trials in Phases II-IV. The clinic will be able to accommodate up to 150 patients per ...

Brexit looking back and looking forward

More than 3 years have passed after the vote and there is still uncertainty around the outcome although the UK December 12 election set a clearer course towards...

"Unclear proposal from the EU Commission on how to solve the MDR challenges"

Even before the EU regulation on medical devices (MDR) came into force, medical technology companies and doctors were concerned that it would endanger the avail...