Charlotta Gummeson leaves Sahlgrenska Science Park – “It feels sad and exciting at the same time”

forward and thinking about all the new things that there will be in a freer role,” she says to Life Science Sweden

Column: ”Authentic leadership and clear mandates pave the way for more female CEOs”

”I believe that the aspect of having clear mandates and titles on the one hand and women progressing into top positions must be explored further”, Helena Strigå...

Novo Nordisk invests billions in expanding its production capacity

Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk is making a major investment to develop and expand its production facility in Hillerød, north of Copenhagen. DKK 15.9...

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...

Novo Nordisk sues compounding pharmacies in the US

Novo Nordisk is suing compounding pharmacies in Florida, USA, because the company claims to have found impurities in the active ingredient in the obesity drug Wegovy.

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.

This is the future location of the new national innovation cluster

Mölndal and Goco Health Innovation City will be the site of a new national innovation cluster for advanced therapies. The business community and the Swedish gov...

Valves with piezo technology

Efficient control and regulation of gases in medical technology

En ventil för varje tillfälle

Med ett av marknadens bredaste sortiment av vridspjällsventiler kan vi erbjuda en passande ventil för nästan varje applikation.

Kinagodkännande ger klirr i kassan för Calliditas

Svenska Calliditas Therapeutics har fått sitt läkemedel Nefecon godkänt i Kina, och får därmed en milstolpsbetalning på fem miljoner dollar av sin kinesiska partner Everest.

ALS – When the body has given up, but the brain persists

The nerve disease ALS gradually deprives the patient of control over the muscles and, eventually, also of speech. The eyes continue to function, though, and wit...

”Använd modern teknologi för utveckling av vårdens verksamheter”

”Vurmen för IT-system à la 80/90-tal är stor. Misstänksamheten mot moderna lösningar likaså”, skriver Leading Health Cares generalsekreterare Hans Winberg i en ...

Business Sweden i möte med branschen om satsningar på bortglömd jättemarknad

Mästaren på peer review säger sällan nej till en studie

Statistikern Jonas Ranstam framhåller möjligheten att befinna sig i forskningens frontlinje som ett viktigt skäl att ägna sig åt granskning av medicinska studier.

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...

“An entire industry is about to be wiped out”

According to Jennie Ekbeck, CEO of Umeå Biotech Incubators, Sweden risks not having any small diagnostic companies left in five years.

Calliditas utser ny USA-chef

Calliditas Therapeutics har utsett Maria Törnsén till chef för bolagets amerikanska verksamhet.

He is zooming in on topical preparations

According to Zelmic CEO David Sagna, topical products in drug development is a growing market, and to keep pace with the development, the company is awaiting approval for its new...

The new Astra Zeneca CEO: “An incredibly exciting phase”

Almost 27 years have passed since Per Alfredsson from Södertälje stepped into Astra Zeneca as a newly hired engineer. After countless different roles, including...

Swedish breakthrough in Alzheimer’s: “We can finally present great data”

Treatments for Alzheimer’s disease are currently among the hottest topics in drug development. Two Swedish research companies with high ambitions and successes ...

AI-stödd mammografi hittade fler cancerfall i studie

Screening med hjälp av AI hittade fler bröstcancerfall och minskade arbetsbördan kraftigt jämfört med sedvanlig röntgengranskning av två radiologer i en studie ...

New issue of Life Science Sweden!

The international issue of Life Science Sweden has been sent to press.

"Are we doing business the wrong way around in the Life Science Sector?"

For the past 50 years we have created solutions for problems that we thought would solve the problems. Pharmaceuticals have created big block buster drugs which...

Sobis samarbete med Sanofi ger skörd – läkemedel mot hemofili godkänt i USA

Svenska särläkemedelsbolaget Sobi har fått ett nytt läkemedel mot hemofili A godkänt i USA. I EU väntas en ansökan om godkännande lämnas in senare i år.