Acadia drug awarded

Acadia Pharmaceutical has got an award for a new treatment against Parkinson's disease.

Här är hela listan med de svenska ERC-miljonerna

Totalt har 236 forskare fått pengar från det europeiska forskningsrådet ERC. Tolv av dem kommer att arbeta med sina projekt i Sverige.

Sweden and Denmark – this is how they choose their strategies

Scandinavia’s two major powers in pharmaceutical research have developed strategies for growth in life science, and both countries aim to become world leaders.

A platform for dialogue

As a step towards connecting the life science industry in Denmark, Biologue was founded three years ago with 10 member companies. Today, the network has 40 memb...

Parnevik firm in Swiss osteoporosis deal

The golf legend Jesper Parnevik's drug delivery firm EffRx has signed a license agreement with Nycomed for a new drug against osteoporosis.

Studie: Önsketänkande kan ha väglett beteende under pandemin

En ny doktorsavhandling tyder på att vi systematiskt underskattar hälsorisker – om och när det passar oss. Det gällde inte minst under pandemin då våra riskbedö...

Delivering drugs with small devices

There are many challenges to overcome when delivering a drug orally. Getting the drug to survive the low pH of the ventricle and being released at the correct s...

Neanderthal genes and Nobel Prize in a popular lecture at Bioscience

An inherited gene variant from our ”evolutionary cousins” – the extinct Neanderthals – may affect how our bodies break down certain drugs. “It’s only a matter o...

Prenatal testing breakthrough

For the first time specific gene expression information from fetal cells isolated from maternal blood samples is available.

Samuel Lagercrantz: Collaboration and joint efforts are the key to success

Although many questions about Covid-19 remain unanswered, the development of drugs and vaccines has been incredibly rapid, writes Samuel Lagercrantz, Life Scien...

Mikrofluidiskt system för tillverkning av nanopartiklar

Applikationen av nanopartiklar inom bioteknologi och biomedicin förväntas öka stort de kommande åren. Ett högintressant område för de små partiklarna är vid lev...

EU says yes to Roche drug

EU approves a first in class therapy for treatment of patients with moderate to severe form of rheumatoid arthritis.

28 projekt delar på 23 miljoner

När Swelife och Medtech4health delar ut pengar från sin första gemensamma utlysning är elva av 28 projekt från Göteborg.

Engage with your CMO early

Gordon Hutton is Materials Science Lead at Thermo Fisher Scientific’s, formerly GSK, small molecule API site in Cork, Ireland.

Continuous sampling allows for instantaneous microbial detection

Biovigilant's IMD-A instruments employ an optical technology to continuously sample the air and immediately warn when microbial contamination is detected.

Pharma Outsourcing igång på Stockholm Waterfront

180 cancerforskare samlas digitalt i Lund

Medicon Village och Lunds universitet ordnar ett digitalt möte på Världscancerdagen på torsdag.

Visar lovande ny mekanism mot alzheimer

”Vi är nära ett genombrott i kampen mot Alzheimers sjukdom.” Det var budskapet från Pontus Forsell, forskningschef på AlzeCure, vid mötet 17th International Con...

Dako appoints new CEO

The Danish cancer therapeutic company Dako has appointed a new CEO after Patrik Dahlén.

SDU professor helps EU

Mette Præst Knudsen from the University of Southern Denmark, SDU, has been appointed as an expert member in an EU politics group.

Digitalisering av in vivo-data ska underlätta för forskare

Problem med stora datamängder väckte en idé hos forskaren Sara Mangsbo och hennes kollegor på Vivologica, som utvecklade en mjukvaruplattform som underlättar fö...

New nanotech professor to DTU

The Danish University of Technology, DTU, has appointed Kristoffer Almdal as professor to DTU Nanotech.

Trio goes in for high tech medicines

The Swedish drug discovery company Beactica announces fragment-based drug discovery research collaboration with GE Healthcare and the University of Uppsala.

Swedish nanotech crosses the Atlantic

Genovis signs distribution agreement Finnzymes in US.