Xbrane tar in 350 miljoner för fortsatt utveckling och uppskalning

Solnabaserade biosimilarbolaget Xbrane Biopharma tar in totalt 350 miljoner kronor genom dels en riktad nyemission, dels en finansiering via konvertibla obligationer.

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...

Han tar över som ordförande i CTR

Bengt Dahlström, grundare av Center for Translational Research, har efter sju år som styrelseordförande i koncernen lämnat över ordförandeklubban till Hans Andreasson.

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.

The life science strategy – what the industry wants

The process of updating the national life science strategy has begun at the government’s life science office. According to industry stakeholders, Sweden’s compe...

Dansk-svensk mikrobiom-satsning lockade företag och talanger

Fem mikrobioföretag har etablerat sig och över 100 internationella talanger har anställts inom ramen för Microbiome Signature Project i Öresundsregionen. Alla u...

Total pipeline of pharmaceutical companies reaches a record high – 22,921 medicines are currently being developed

Despite the difficult economic times, pharmaceutical companies have never developed as many new drugs as now.

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...

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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...

Anna Törner: You won’t find this many Concorde projects anywhere else

"Suddenly Concorde projects seem reasonable in life science because it´s about life and death", writes Anna Törner in a column.

The impact of the recession on the Swedish medtech sector

We need health care regardless of whether the economy is good or bad, but the current recession also affects the Medtech sector.

Nyemission stärker Bioinvent – flera kliniska cancerstudier igång

Immunterapibolaget Bioinvent har tagit in närmare 300 miljoner kronor i en riktad nyemission. Tillskottet ska säkra genomförandet av företagets kliniska program...

Elypta tar in 21 miljoner dollar för utveckling av cancerdiagnostik

Riskkapitalbolaget Bonnier Ventures kliver in som delägare i svenska diagnostikföretaget Elypta, som utvecklar metoder för tidig upptäckt av cancer via liquid b...

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...

Efficient use of blood plasma

Blood plasma is an indispensable resource in the production of life-saving medicines. It is in high demand on global markets. To make more efficient use of this...

Marie Gårdmark: New incentives for orphan products on its way

"Let’s hope that the learnings from development of new therapies for rare diseases will spill over to more common conditions, orphan products paving the wave fo...

Michael Treschow och Jens Nielsen blir hedersdoktorer vid Sahlgrenska akademin

”Båda våra hedersdoktorer har ett starkt engagemang i frågor som rör life science, vilket bidragit till att stärka detta område i vår region”, säger Agneta Holm...

Bought a tablet factory – and built his own empire

In 1995, Thomas Eldered was CEO of one of Pharmacia’s factories in the Stockholm area when the Swedish pharmaceutical giant, after a takeover, decided to move i...

Samuel Lagercrantz: ”Drömmen blev en mardröm för life science-entreprenören”

En hyllad forskare och entreprenör i Västsverige tvingades lämna bolaget han själv grundat. Fallet har väckt stort intresse bland Life Science Swedens läsare. S...

MVA hämtar ny vd från Copenhagen Capacity

Den svensk-danska klusterorganisation Medicon Valley Alliance har utsett en ny vd.

A new international stem cell research centre has been created in Copenhagen

A new centre for stem cell research opened to the public in January. The Novo Nordisk Foundation backs the initiative with the ambition that the centre will adv...

“Together Stockholm-Uppsala and Medicon Valley can make Scandinavia a leading life science region”

“Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland all have national life science strategies, but the Swedish strategy is the only one explicitly emphasizing the Nordic dimen...