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"Rymdfärder och läkemedelsutveckling har många likheter. De är hårt reglerade verksamheter där minsta misstag kan få ödesdigra konsekvenser", skriver Anna Törner i en krönika.

Column: ”Life as a F1 race”

"The F1 car makes several pit stops during a race and during a lifetime the human being may also have to come in several times for maintenance", Björn Ursing wr...

Looking for greater Nordic cooperation – “We have Norway and Finland in our sights”

How can Medicon Valley Alliance bring the big pharmaceutical companies back to the organisation? Life Science Sweden discussed this topic and others with the cl...

Sweden is heavily criticised for not ordering Covid vaccine

Valneva and the EU Commission have entered into an agreement for 1.25 million doses of the company’s Covid vaccine, but Sweden has not placed an order.

“We are Europe’s hotspot in life science”

The Medicon Valley Alliance has worked for competence development in life science in Denmark and Sweden for a quarter of a century. Anette Steenberg, CEO, sees ...

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...

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...

Marie Gårdmark: Do EMA and FDA talk to each other?

Of course they do! The collaboration started already in 2003, writes Marie Gårdmark in a column.

Giulia Gaudenzi: Innovation for good

"I challenge the innovator landscape to take a mental leap. Relying on innovation-solely to end inequality is not enough, therefore consciously and purposively ...

TV: "Våga samarbeta med Amazon och Google!"

Nu kommer de gigantiska techjättarna med sjukvårdslösningar. Jennifer Grönqvist, på Sahlgrenska Science Park, har en strategi.

SEO byrå i Göteborg växer så att det knakar

Att hamna högt upp i Googles sökresultat är något som mer eller mindre är ett måste för de allra flesta företag inom de flesta branscher.

Editorial: ”AI that both impresses and frightens”

”In the past, I've rarely been particularly impressed by something that was produced by AI. But this is something completely different”, Samuel Lagercrantz writ...

Failed to read the fine print – lost his life’s work

A celebrated CEO and co-founder of a pioneering lab company one moment – the next, fired, kicked out and written out of the company’s history. This is the story...

The government proposes fines for pharmaceutical companies that fail to notify drug shortages in time

According to a compilation from the Swedish Medicines Agency, the number of residually notified medicines increased by 54 % in Sweden last year compared to the ...

Karriärcoachen: Så får du arbetsmarknadens mest eftertraktade egenskap

”Hur ska man kunna hänga med?”. Det är en fråga många ställer sig när den tekniska utvecklingen nu rusar fram. Men, enligt karriärcoachen Tina Persson ska du fo...

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...

Amerikansk tidning stämmer EU-kommissionen för "mörkade" vaccin-sms

EU:s vägran att lämna ut en sms-konversation mellan Pfizers ledning och EU-kommissionens ordförande Ursula von der Leyen i samband med ett gigantiskt vaccinkont...

Anders Blanck about his 17 years at Lif: “The industry is enjoying greater public trust now"

. However, I will turn 56 this autumn, and if I’m going to do something else in my professional life, now is the time,” he says.

"Unclear proposal from the EU Commission on how to solve the MDR challenges"

Even before the EU regulation on medical devices (MDR) came into force, medical technology companies and doctors were concerned that it would endanger the avail...

No demand for new Covid vaccine – “It will probably be discarded”

So far, just under 6 000 doses of the Covid vaccine from Novavax have been used in Sweden, leaving over 1.4 million doses in stock. “They will probably be disca...

New diagnostic test soon ready for the market

Universitet erbjuder platser till ukrainska forskare

Forskningslaboratorier världen över öppnar sina dörrar för forskare från Ukraina. Vid Stockholms universitet står nu flera kemilabb beredda att ta emot ukrainska kollegor.

Studie: AI-system lika bra som patologer på diagnos av prostatacancer

AI-system kan identifiera och gradera prostatacancer i vävnadsprover lika bra som patologer. Det menar forskare på bland annat Karolinska institutet som genomfö...

The first drugs to slow down Alzheimer’s – but what does it mean for patients?

New treatments for early Alzheimer’s are bringing hope to thousands of patients and their families. The question is, who will get the treatment, how will the ri...