“A major energy boost for the entire cancer vaccine field”

The development of cancer vaccines has accelerated in recent years. Norwegian Ultimovacs is one of the companies attempting to develop a new type of treatment l...

Collaboration for a simpler production of gene therapies launched

A collaboration between universities and companies aims at providing better production methods for the development of gene therapies. The initiative is led by J...

Nya namn när Navinci Diagnostics satsar framåt

Uppsalabaserade Navinci Diagnostics har utsett Eva Pisa till ny styrelseordförande, och anställt Caroline Gallant som ny Chief Technology officer. Dessutom har ...

Ny COO på Immunovia

Karl Stone, grundare av Oxford Gene Technology och tidigare verksamhetschef på Medicines Discovery Catapult, Lighthouse Lab, tar nu steget in i Immunovias ledni...

Svensk medtech-vd på amerikansk ledarskapslista

The Healthcare Technology Report har listat de 25 bästa kvinnliga ledarna inom området medicinteknisk utrustning 2022. Karin Dahllöf, vd för Monivents, finns me...

Venom from the deathstalker carries radiopharmaceuticals to the brain

In order to target cancerous brain tumours with radionuclides, the problematic blood-brain barrier must first be crossed. Life Science Sweden has visited a KI r...

Ny CBO hos Bioinvent

Cancerforskningsföretaget Bioinvent har rekryterat Sylvie Ryckebusch till rollen som Chief Business Officer.

Vd-byte på Cross ska stärka marknadssidan

Lundabaserade medicinteknikbolaget Cross Technology Solutions rekryterar Titti Lundgren som ny vd.

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 ...

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Samuel Lagercrantz: We are currently seeing medical breakthroughs in these areas

Samuel Lagercrantz, Editor in Chief of Life Science Sweden, lists three medical fields in which we are currently seeing major breakthroughs and two fields in wh...

Precision and accuracy in liquid handling

How to evaluate and optimize liquid handling performance

“Everyone is screaming for talent”

Attracting talent is one of the life science industry’s major future challenges, which was one of the conclusions of the panel discussion that ended the New Hor...

Medicinjättar högt på topplista när Sveriges bästa arbetsplatser rankas

Att jobba inom medtech eller life science kan innebära att man har Sveriges bästa arbetsgivare. Det enligt en ny lista där medarbetarna själva fått tycka till.

Uppdaterad temperaturgivare (det bästa av två världar)

Anderson-Negele uppdaterar nu temperaturgivarna TSM och TSB i en ny version som kommer med Flex Hybrid Technology vilket innebär att temperaturgivaren kombinera...

”Alla skriker efter talang”

Att locka till sig begåvningarna är en av life science-branschens stora framtidsutmaningar. Det var en av slutsatserna i det panelsamtal som avslutade konferens...

On the hunt for high throughput diagnostics

Global diagnostics companies and laboratories are in a race against time to adapt testing capacity to current demand. Due to the global COVID 19 pandemic, the d...

AI-diagnostik av malignt melanom prövas kliniskt

Startup-företaget AI Medical Technology inleder en klinisk prövning av sitt system för diagnos av malignt melanom på 30 svenska primärvårdskliniker.

Bioarctic får USA-patent för transportmetod i hjärnan

Det svenska forskningsbolaget Bioarctic har beviljats patent i USA för sin plattform för transport av biologiska läkemedel över blod-hjärnbarriären.

"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...

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...

Extremely high sample throughput rates

Precision and reliability in automated liquid handling

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...

Hon ska leda EIT Health Scandinavia

Annika Szabo Portela har utsetts till vd för EIT Health Scandinavia. Hon har sedan december arbetat som operativ interim vd, men anställs nu permanent.