Double up for Korbinian Löbmann

This year, Korbinian Löbmann will moderate the New Updates in Drug Formulation & Bioavailability meeting in Copenhagen for the fifth time. Furthermore, he will ...

Ett litet djur med stor betydelse – Zebrafisken

Från den mytomspunna Gangesfloden till det mindre heliga, men avsevärt renare vattnet i KI:s akvarier i Solna. Den lilla zebrafisken har gjort en omedveten karr...

Innovative start-up helps doctors, scientists and industry balance coagulation risks

For many doctors caring for seriously ill patients, for example, in stroke units and cancer wards, maintaining the life-saving balance between bleeding and thro...

Isländskt bolag tar över delar av Xbrane – planerar ”stark närvaro” i svensk life science

Xbrane säljer sin FoU-verksamhet med 40 anställda, och ett av sina biosimilarprojekt, till isländska Alvotech. Prislappen landar på 275 miljoner kronor – och Xb...

Cytel Sweden

The physician at the tech giant: “Observations in the emergency room made my mind up”

When Nasim Farrokhnia was in third grade at school in Tehran, the capital of Iran, her father gave her a book about Marie Curie, which soon became her favourite...

A surprising discovery about the immune system in cases of cancer

Professor Göran Jönsson is trying to understand why some patients benefit from immunotherapies while others don’t. A couple of years ago, he made a surprising d...

Attendo värvar toppchef internt

Attendos affärsområdeschef väljer att lämna rollen efter bara ett år. Nu rekryteras en ny chef internt som har arbetat inom bolaget i snart två decennier.

Nordic Regulatory experts: Improving biotech chances of Succ

Why is it that so many biotech companies fail? And what are the tools needed to change that fact?

From Valneva to the CEO position at NorthX – “I saw it as a great opportunity”

A new cell therapy for leukaemia, a vaccine in tablet form against cholera, and a proprietary mRNA line with the potential capacity to supply the entire Nordic ...

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...

Aberas teknik får patentgodkännande av EU

Vaccin- och bioteknikbolaget Abera Bioscience, som utvecklar vacciner som nässpray, har fått ett patentgodkännande av den europeiska patentmyndigheten, EPO.

Extremely high sample throughput rates

Precision and reliability in automated liquid handling

Sweden is organising a large life science conference as part of the EU presidency

On 26-27 June, Sweden will host a European meeting on life science.

19 medicines in Sweden are under investigation in a major EMA inquiry

19 medicines marketed in Sweden are affected by an ongoing extensive European investigation into suspected fraud at an Indian contract research organisation. Among them are medicines for HIV, epilepsy, cancer and Parkinson’s, which may be withdrawn...

Ny behandling för äggstockscancer godkänd i EU

För första gången på ett decennium har en ny behandling för platinumresistent äggstockscancer godkänts av EU-kommissionen.

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...

Nocebo – the evil twin that makes you feel worse

The placebo effect is well known in healthcare, but not so its opposite: nocebo. “The effect is small, but it can have major repercussions,” says Uppsala resear...

Study names with an attitude – more important than you might think

Ironman, T-rex, Star-Trek. Popcorn, Proper, Scout. Nope, these are neither fantasy films nor dog names. They’re the names of ongoing cancer studies in Sweden.

Neanderthal genes and Nobel Prize in a popular lecture at Bioscience

An inherited gene variant from our ”evolutionary cousins” – the extinct Neanderthals – may affect how our bodies break down certain drugs. “It’s only a matter o...

En av fem får gå efter avbruten cancervaccinstudie

Oslobaserade Nykode Therapeutics minskar sin personalstyrka med en femtedel. Bakgrunden är beslutet att avbryta bolagets studie kring ett vaccin mot livmoderhalscancer.

Pharmacolog gör nedskärningar: ”Tuffa beslut att fatta”

Uppsalabolaget Pharmacolog genomför ett besparingsprogram som ska minska kostnaderna med minst 35 procent. Bland annat ska personalstyrkan minskas kraftigt.

Claims of life science companies fleeing abroad is a myth according to survey

The claim that life science companies are moving abroad is exaggerated. In fact, only a tiny percentage is leaving the country, according to a survey.

Martin Schalling får Ingvarpriset

Årets Ingvarpris från Svenska Läkaresällskapet tilldelas Martin Schalling för studier om bipolär sjukdom och litium.