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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...

Ingrid Lönnstedt: What does the p-value mean?

The smaller the better, and preferably smaller than 0.05. A p-value smaller than 5% means that the treatment effect is statistically significant at 5% significa...

Egetis läkemedel Emcitate lanserat i Tyskland

Från och med 1 maj finns den första och enda behandlingen för patienter som lider av MCT8-brist tillgänglig i Tyskland. Det bekräftar Egetis Therapeutics.

Biosimilars bring price pressure, but are they sufficiently used?

When biosimilars were introduced just over 16 years ago, hopes were raised that they would give many more patients access to effective but otherwise extremely e...

Cantargia får snabbspår för antikroppen nadunolimab

Lundabaserade biotechbolaget Cantargia har beviljats Fast Track-status i USA för snabbare utveckling och granskning av sin läkemedelskandidat avsedd för behandl...

IVI’s Director General on establishing in Sweden: Will need up to 40 employees

The International Vaccine Institute, IVI, hopes to have its first staff on-site in Stockholm within a couple of months, says the institute’s Director General Je...

UCR - Uppsala Clinical Research Center

Noxious parasite forms hybrids and deceives the immune system

The small parasite Trypanosoma cruzi has a nasty ability to cause serious illness. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet have now mapped its ability to decei...

Nytt läkemedel ska förenkla behandling av blödarsjuka

En ny typ av behandling mot hemofili, som bara behöver ges varannan månad, har godkänts av den amerikanska läkemedelsmyndigheten FDA.

Bioscience – Groundbreaking Research & Diagnostics: Stockholm (2026)

Meribel Pharma Solna

The first Lyme disease vaccine faces a delay

Pfizer and Valneva’s Lyme disease vaccine, which could be the first of its kind, is facing delays of about a year. The reason is problems at trial sites in the ...

“Photon counting in computed tomography is the holy grail”

Erik Fredenberg, a researcher in physics at KTH and GE, is working to implement photon-counting CT in clinics. To shorten lead times and reduce the radiation do...

Pfizer värvar FDA-topp – kritiseras hårt

Läkemedelsjätten Pfizers rekrytering av Patrizia Cavazzoni, tills helt nyligen toppchef vid FDA, som ny medicinsk chef får frän kritik från flera håll.

Australien godkänner Eli Lillys alzheimerläkemedel

Eli Lilly får marknadsgodkännande i Australien för Kisunla, meddelar den austaliensiska läkemedelsmyndigheten TGA. Därmed är behandlingen tillgänglig på 13 marknader.

New issue of Life Science Sweden!

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

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...

Rekordstor donation till cancerforskning i Lund – ”Once in a lifetime-möjlighet”

Lunds universitet får den största donationen i lärosätets moderna historia, enligt ett pressmeddelande.

Study: Chat GPT is more empathetic than doctors

The AI tool Chat GPT is not only more accurate when it comes to answering patient questions – the chatbot is also perceived as almost 10 times more empathetic t...

Newly discovered gene variant linked to protection against abdominal obesity

American researchers believe they have identified a rare gene mutation that protects against abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome. The ambition is that the ...

Column: ”We need to exploit the benefits of the regulations“

You don’t need to search long on the Internet to find lists of the most innovative countries with Sweden ranking at the top. Sweden generally offers good condit...

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...