This is how Anette Steenberg will put Medicon Valley on the world map

Anette Steenberg has been CEO of the Swedish-Danish life science cluster Medicon Valley Alliance since 1 November last year. Life Science Sweden called her to a...

Novo Nordisks studie: Insulin en gång i veckan gav bättre effekt

Data från det danska läkemedelsbolagets Onwards-studie tyder på att insulin som ges en gång per vecka har större effekt än insulin som ges varje dag.

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.

KI-studie: CAR-T visade effekt mot äggstockscancer hos möss

Idag finns inga fungerande CAR-T-terapier mot solida tumörer. Men nu har forskare vid Karolinska institutet nått lovande resultat i studier med möss med äggstockscancer.

Marie Gårdmark: Big data evidence generation drives change in the EU regulatory system

Rapid developments in technology have led to the possibility for the generation and analysis of vast volumes of data. Will the availability of big data lead to ...

MVA:s CEO: “Our investments should improve people´s everyday lives”

Involuntary infertility and diabetes are two of the areas on the agenda of the Medicon Valley Alliance.

ZXP-X1 – Komplett vakuumgripdon för kollaborativa robotar

SMC släpper nu vakuumgripdonet ZXP-X1 för ett antal olika robottillverkare.

We will now publish more news in English – and offer yet another newsletter

Starting next week, Life Science Sweden will begin offering a newsletter entirely in English.

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...

Tusentals personuppgifter kan ha läckt vid covidtester

Förra året gjorde svenskarna över 14 miljoner PCR-tester för att påvisa covid-19. Nu har forskare vid Umeå universitet upptäckt att personuppgifter kan ha läckt...

The stomach medication that became the biggest blockbuster of the 1990s

The omeprazole molecule was synthesised as early as 1979, but it took many years before the then Astra had an approved pharmaceutical. Once this happened, a tab...

The first vaccine derived from cowpox

The British rural doctor could not forget the words of the peasant girl. Could that really be true? A couple of decades later, on 14 May 1796, he performed the ...

Elicera develops CAR-T against solid tumours – may become the first in the world

Today, there are five EU-approved CAR-T therapies, all focused on different types of blood cancer, but no one has yet succeeded in making the method work agains...

Now it’s settled: The International Vaccine Institute will be located in Stockholm

The International Vaccine Institute, IVI, is establishing itself outside South Korea for the first time. Last week, the Swedish Parliament ratified the agreemen...

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...

Omikron finns i 23 länder i Europa

I 23 länder i Europa har omikronvarianten hittats och totalt 766 personer är bekräftat smittade med varianten. I Sverige finns 23 bekräftade fall, visar siffror från ECDC.

Tablettbehandling mot håravfall godkänns i USA

Den första tablettbehandlingen mot fläckvis håravfall har fått tummen upp av den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA.

Scibase rekryterar från Elekta

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.

Søren Bregenholt omvald som ordförande i MVA

Under Medicon Valley Alliance årsstämma fick styrelsen förnyat förtroende och valdes om.

Lucy Robertshaw: There is a bio revolution happening right now

Lucy Robertshaw is both proud and excited to be taking the baton of moderating this year’s Pharma Outsourcing event.

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...

Björn Arvidsson: Let's build on the positive momentum

Progress needs narratives and heroes, and more than ever, going into the new year feels like an opportunity for a fresh start.

Virologen om de mest angelägna vaccinen

Lärdomar från pandemin kan avgöra hur kommande pandemier ska bemötas – det var fokus när vaccinforskare från hela världen samlades på den årliga vaccinkongressen i Quebec.