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.

A growing industry in Denmark: “One new life science company a week”

The life science sector in eastern Denmark continues to grow in the number of employees, as well as the number of companies. An emerging problem is the shortage...

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...

Pfizer lays a chunky bid on Wyeth

The merger of two pharma giants is the largest industry deal so far this year. Pfizer will acquire Wyeth in a cash-and-stock transaction currently valued at app...

EU grants project on toxicity of nanomaterials

A multinational research project has have been awarded EUR 3 358 500 from the European Commission to study the hazardous effects of engineered nanomaterials on ...

Aerocrine ökar förlusten andra kvartalet

Resultat efter skatt -41 miljoner kronor, jämfört med -29 miljoner samma period förra året.

Bakslag för Roche i Alzheimerstudie

Det schweiziska läkemedelsbolaget Roche kunde i resultaten från en preventionsstudie mot Alzheimers sjukdom hos patienter med en genetisk mutation som orsakar t...

New diagnostic test soon ready for the market

Ambassador program makes MVA big in Japan

The first ambassadors of the Medicon Valley Ambassador Programme have only worked in each other's countries for six months. But they have already made a signifi...

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.

Samuel Lagercrantz: Immunotherapy against cancer is still in its early stages

For more than 100 years, researchers have tried to target the body’s own immune system to fight cancer cells. They have occasionally been laughed at and ridicul...

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...

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

Alert from the Swedish Medicines Agency: Many complications with gastric balloons

According to the Swedish Medicines Agency, an increasing number of serious complications are being reported in procedures with gastric balloons as a method for ...

Cytel Inc acquires the SDS Group

The multinational statistical software developer and contract research organization Cytel Inc, headquartered in Massachusetts, USA, acquires the Swedish consult...

Astra betalar 4 miljarder i böter

Bolaget förnekar anklagelserna om felaktig marknadsföring, men väljer att förlika ändå.

Marie Gårdmark: Finally, it’s time for a revision of the EU pharma legislation

A challenge for the EU Commission is to deliver a new framework that will also take care of another “pillar” of the pharmaceutical strategy, namely, to ensure t...

Column: Why there cannot be a complete cure for cancer – but there is certainly another way!

"Is there a new way we need to be thinking about how to prevent cancer?" Lucy Robertshaw reflects upon which is the smartest way to beat cancer.

“Together Stockholm-Uppsala and Medicon Valley can make Scandinavia a leading life science region”

“Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland all have national life science strategies, but the Swedish strategy is the only one explicitly emphasizing the Nordic dimen...

Forskare utvecklar kontaktlinser för att bota grön starr

Kinesiska forskare har utvecklat kontaktlinser som ska känna av om trycket i ögat stiger och därefter frigöra läkemedel för att sänka trycket vid behov. Förhopp...

A new international stem cell research centre has been created in Copenhagen

A new centre for stem cell research opened to the public in January. The Novo Nordisk Foundation backs the initiative with the ambition that the centre will adv...

Amerikansk domstol tycker fortfarande att gener kan patenteras

Anser fortfarande att det är okej att ta patent på gener, trots att Supreme Court bett domstolen att ompröva beslutet.

Hon ska leda GSK:s spin-off inom konsumenthälsa

Haleon – så lyder namnet på det nya bolag inom konsumenthälsa som inom kort knoppas av från brittiska läkemedelsjätten Glaxo Smith Kline, GSK. – Den här lanseri...

Aerocrine-seger i tysk patenttvist

Tyska domstolar dömer till det svenska medtech-företagets fördel i en två år gammal patenttvist.