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 fast route to a safe insulin pen

the pens using the Festo automation platform.

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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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 ...

“We should avoid surgery if we can”

Since February this year, she has been Scientific Director Life Science at the Karolinska Institutet. Life Science Sweden met Anna Martling for a talk about rol...

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.

Meeting with focus on South Korea and Japan’s life sciences

Large, complex and exciting – this is how Britta Stenson, Business Sweden, describes the life science markets of Japan and South Korea, which took centre stage ...

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...

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...

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...

Faster development of reliable sample handling

to integrate into the customer's platform – with standard components from Festo, a PerkinElmer® JANUS G3 workstation and a modified rotary gripper module. 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...

Swedish Healthtech Company 1928 Pushing Forward

The full service analytics platform is expanding the business.

Digitala pengar dyrast

Energikostnaden för att utvinna digitala s k kryptovalutor, mining som det kallas – är till och med högre än den för att utvinna fysiska metaller.

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...

Gel av spindeltrådsprotein utvecklas för biomedicinsk användning

Spindeltrådens märkliga egenskaper kommer till användning när svenska forskare undersöker nya, potentiella metoder för bland annat regenerativ medicin och läkem...