The Oresund region aims at becoming Europe’s microbiome Mecca

The Medicon Valley Alliance’s ambition: Skåne and the Copenhagen region will become world leaders in microbiome research.

Stockholm and Uppsala jointly form a life science cluster

Stockholm and Uppsala are strengthening cooperation in medical research and biotech.

The Swedish Life Science Office: “We lost in both coordination and manpower”

Since the turn of the year, the Swedish government’s life science office has operated at a lower capacity. Life Science Sweden has spoken to Pontus Holm, Depart...

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...

Galderma

Obesity-drug pioneers win Lasker Award

This year’s Lasker Prize in Clinical Research has been awarded to three researchers for their discoveries in GLP-1-based drugs that, according to the jury, “hav...

Speed meets precision for high-density components

ZEISS METROTOM 800 320 kV.

New drug alert in the US: Rise in overdoses linked to the use of drugs for animals

A combination of the synthetic drugs fentanyl and xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, has been labelled a “growing threat” by the White House due to its role in t...

The perfect formula for decision-making

No one has the luxury not to take a decision, writes Helena Strigård at Swedenbio.

QPS Netherlands B.V

Webinar: Medtech quality and regulatory compliance

This webinar is for you who are developing or planning to develop a medical device, combination, or borderline product. In one hour, we will discuss what you ne...

Sobi announces agreement with Enable Injections

Swedish biopharma Sobi has entered into an international development and distribution agreement with US drug delivery company Enable Injections.

Spatial Biology Studies in Lung Tissue using Spectral Microscopy

Spectral imaging with the ZEISS LSM 980 laser scanning confocal enables more complex studies of cell-cell interactions and locations in immunology research.

Trumps nya FDA-chef varnar för "massiv övermedicinering"

Donald Trump har nominerat kirurgen och författaren Marty Makary till ny chef för den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA, som enligt den tillträdande preside...

Webinar: What is Regulatory Affairs?

This webinar is intended for those who work within the life science sector and would like to gain a general understanding of regulatory affairs for human medicinal products.

Truly Labs AB

Accurate removal of prostate tissue

Medical robots play an important role in diagnostics

They’re all doing it – buying drug research

December 12 the time has come for this year's annual partnering meeting Pharma Outsourcing in Stockholm. In Sweden this is a growing business, with Recipharm as...

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...

Pfizer’s record year – topped the $100 billion mark

In 2022 Pfizer, as the first pharmaceutical company in history, reached an annual revenue of more than 100 billion dollars, thereby surpassing Johnson & Johnson...

Elypta awarded one million USD from the Star Trek creator’s foundation

Swedish company Elypta, which develops methods for early cancer detection, has been awarded one million USD from an unexpected source: a foundation set up in me...

New rules for diagnostic products, but who will certify them? “An extreme shortage area”

In less than two weeks, new and stricter EU rules will enter into force for thousands of products used in important diagnoses of, among other things, cancer and...

The impact of the recession on the Swedish medtech sector

We need health care regardless of whether the economy is good or bad, but the current recession also affects the Medtech sector.

It´s time to establish relations

Communication with the patient is the key to future healthcare, writes Hanna Brodda, editor in chief of Life Science Sweden.