He will be the new chair of Medicon Valley Alliance

Niels Abel Bonde is the nomination committee’s proposal and the most likely person to take over as the new chairman of the Swedish-Danish life science cluster o...

KI’s freezer fiasco investigated: A chain of failures

A chain of combined technical and organisational shortcomings caused the freezer breakdown at the Karolinska Institute during the Christmas holidays, destroying...

Studie: Extroverta mer benägna till vaccinskepsis

Utåtriktade personer borde ha bråttom att få komma ut och umgås igen under pandemin, och därför vara extra benägna att ta covid-vaccinet. Trodde forskarna. Men ...

The Swedish government is to increase its investment in cancer care

The Swedish government wants to invest more in cancer and paediatric cancer care and proposes to allocate SEK 500 million per year for this purpose in the coming years.

Flexibla EOAT-lösningar från OEM Automatic optimerar din robotapplikation

För att maximera potentialen i en robotapplikation krävs rätt verktyg i slutet av robotarmen – så kallade End of Arm Tooling (EOAT). OEM Automatic erbjuder ett ...

”De flesta stora läkemedelsbolagen tittar på radiofarmaka”

Intresset för radiofarmaka har blivit allt större och flera stora läkemedelsbolag satsar inom området. Framsteg inom fältet och den ökade kunskapen kring antikr...

EXCL Gantry Kit Improve Automated Lab Applications

We’re excited to introduce a new product that improves precision and throughput in life science applications. The EXCL multi-axis gantry kit lowers engineering ...

Major advances in IVF labs in the last few decades

Since the introduction of in vitro fertilisation several decades ago, many developments have been made in the field, and the main part of that development has t...

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...

Gel hårdnar till ben i ny forskning från Linköping

Från mjukt och följsamt - till hårt som ben. Forskare vid bland annat Linköpings universitet har utvecklat ett material som hårdnar genom att ben bildas likt fo...

Seminarier får svensk life science att blomstra: “Fyller rummet med rätt personer”

Minimala risker, maximal räckvidd. Genom ett unikt koncept hjälper nu Medicon Valley Alliance företag att skapa mötesplatser där rätt personer samlas – och intresset ökar.

From spin-off to phase II

”The people there will basically become your new colleagues” – Carina Schmidt, former CEO of Athera, about working with different contractors.

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.

FHM ska leda expertlabb för ebola och okända virussjukdomar

Folkhälsomyndigheten har fått ansvar för att driva det europeiska referenslaboratoriet för smittsamma sjukdomar som ebola, marburg och rabies. Uppdraget omfatta...

Accurate removal of prostate tissue

Medical robots play an important role in diagnostics

SUS prövar CAR-T-terapi mot fler cancerformer

Behandling med CAR-T-cellsterapi ska prövas för flera ovanliga former av lymfom i en klinisk studie som vid årsskiftet inleds vid Skånes universitetssjukhus (SUS).

Rickard Sandberg on this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine: ”A key discovery”

The discovery that paved the way for the development of todays mRNA vaccines is the basis for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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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...

“What is important is to create an overview and understanding from different perspectives”

Scientist Jochen Schwenk analyses blood proteins using proteomics to improve our understanding of disease and health. This year, he is moderating the Lab & Diag...

Hello Jenni Nordborg!

Life Science Sweden would like to know more about Jenni Nordborg and asks her about her new job, why she became a chemical engineer and who her role model is.

Promising Alzheimer’s study data sends Bioarctic stock soaring

The drug candidate lecanemab from Swedish company Bioarctic significantly slowed down the deterioration in patients with early on-set Alzheimer’s, according to ...

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...

Helena Strigård: The rise of the community

Sweden Bio´s CEO is looking back at the last decade of development in the industry. Something has shifted in the interdependence between small and larger companies.